@black_rectangle wrote:
Sound quality also depends on your headphones. If you think the sound quality of the unit is limited to what you get with the dinky cheap earbuds that come with it…it’s not. Get some decent Shure or Grado or Sennheiser or Beyerdynamic headphones and it’ll sound a lot better.
Sound quality also depends on how the music files are ripped. If your files are 128kb they are always going to sound mediocre.
Rip your CDs to–or get music already ripped to–at least 192kbps, a VBR (variable bit rate) above that or 320 kbps. It makes a diifference.
…and if you’re willing to explorer further OGG Vorbis and FLAC formats too. (even though listening to a high bit rate [near 320kb MP3] sounds pretty darn close to a FLAC audio file. )
The device I’m currently using to listen to audio converts FLAC to mp4 files when I import it. (at least it doesn’t say that FLAC is incompatible…it just converts it to mp4 and lets me go on my merry way.)
