Headphones

CAIRATH said:
Coming from someone complaining about "wank customer support". Heheh. Maybe you should leave the mp3 players to people who can handle them, gramps. I have owned two iPods and neither of them has ever had any kind of "breakdowns", and the battery life thing is total bullshit. Yes some Creative players did 20 hours instead of the old iPod's 12 (current ones have 20 hours), but the stories about how iPod batteries die quickly and then you have to pay Apple 50 bucks to have it replaced are just ridiculous. I used my 20 gig iPod for about 2 years straight for several hours a day and the battery life on it is still fine. It's not the 12 hours it used to be but more than enough to listen to it all day without running out of juice.

Like I said, in the end it depends on what you care about. If you care about keeping as much money as possible in your pocket then the iPod is not the best choice no. But claiming that the extra dollars simply go to "fashion" is just retarded. The iPods are far smaller, lighter, sturdier (with the downside that the battery is not user-removable) and have a better interface than any of the Creative players I've used/held.

iPods are quality well engineerd and designed products. Even if they are a little overpriced and there may be players with better price/feature ratios. That doesn't make iPods useless fashion accessories and neither does it make people who buy them 'saps' who are too stupid to do a little research before buying an mp3 player. I did my research, and guess what, I happen to like the iPods better than any other player I've tried and am prepared to shell out a little extra cash for that.
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1) Two out of how many built?
2) Battery lie: BBC TV Watcdog program recorded over 5000 complaints TO THEM regarding the battery lie. That's 5000 UK users who bothered to write to a fucking TV program.
3) see 2.
4) Ive had my creative for over a year, it still holds well over 20+hours continous charge. Yes, its bulkier than theiPOD. Luckily, I'm 6'3'', and the extra inch in size doesnt hold a significant problem to my size :lol:
5) Yes, they are
6) Almost of all them.

That's your argument. Now imagine someones who doesn't like them.
 
I don't care if you like them or not. I just resent the whole "ha ha people who buy iPods are uninformed retards because they are just fashion accessories" thing. I'm a computer science student who actually reads tech sites on a daily basis and I'm pretty much the most unfashionable person you can imagine. So the reasons why I bought one (twice) was not because I am 1) stupid 2) uninformed or 3) trying to impress other people.

It's all about weighing up the advantages and disadvantages and decide which you find most important. I happen to find a compact, sturdy and well-designed player with a good interface more important than 8 hours of extra battery life (which I don't use anyway, even my not-quite-12-hours-anymore iPod has never run out on me before I had a chance to recharge it) and the 50-80 or so bucks you save on buying Creative instead of Apple.

As for the battery wear, Creative players suffer from that just as much as Apple players do. That's just how lithium batteries work. The only difference is that the with the previous generation players the iPod had like 8 hours less to begin with and that with the iPod the battery is harder to replace by yourself. But after 2 years of intensive every day use mine still works fine and can still hold a decent charge. So shrug.
 
CAIRATH said:
I don't care if you like them or not. I just resent the whole "ha ha people who buy iPods are uninformed retards because they are just fashion accessories" thing. I'm a computer science student who actually reads tech sites on a daily basis and I'm pretty much the most unfashionable person you can imagine. So the reasons why I bought one (twice) was not because I am 1) stupid 2) uninformed or 3) trying to impress other people.

It's all about weighing up the advantages and disadvantages and decide which you find most important. I happen to find a compact, sturdy and well-designed player with a good interface more important than 8 hours of extra battery life (which I don't use anyway, even my not-quite-12-hours-anymore iPod has never run out on me before I had a chance to recharge it) and the 50-80 or so bucks you save on buying Creative instead of Apple.

As for the battery wear, Creative players suffer from that just as much as Apple players do. That's just how lithium batteries work. The only difference is that the with the previous generation players the iPod had like 8 hours less to begin with and that with the iPod the battery is harder to replace by yourself. But after 2 years of intensive every day use mine still works fine and can still hold a decent charge. So shrug.
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You're a computer science student and chose the iPOD? Wow! Never mind, someone will employ a you with a third (j/k)

My point was that the iPOD has too many disadvantages to justify the high price. If they were competitively priced...well, then that would be a different story. It just annoys me that the media here equate mp3 player with the iPOD when, frankly, they aren't "all that".
 
Well yeah, I do agree that the iPod is seen as "the mp3 player". Apple was just lucky to get themselves into the position where they have basically become the next Walkman. I never see any overhere but I hear from my girlfriend (who is British and lives in the UK) that there's loads of TV commercials about it all the time overthere. With Eminem and U2 or something? I sent her my old 20 gig one and she kept making jokes about Eminem anyway.
 
I have the sony muff style headphones, earphones sound like crap. I work outside so the heavier earphones also help keep my hair out of my eyes.

I like having cds on a stereo not mps on an ipod with crappy little ear phones. That's not a music listening expirience to me.
 
Carcassian said:
iPOD = fashion over functionality.

Pay more, get less, shit battery, prone to breakdowns and wank customer support. That's the iPOD way! Still, at least you get to say "look, I've got an iPOD" and impress those spastics unable to research which player is best for them, and believe the media hype.
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In my school everyone and their mother (you think I'm exaggerating?) has an iPod, so having something different is actually more respectable to most people as iPods have become nothing special
iPods = crap
Buddy of mine has an iRiver which kicks ass on all the other iPods on the block and he bought it a few years ago
 
ender7227 said:
In my school everyone and their mother (you think I'm exaggerating?) has an iPod, so having something different is actually more respectable to most people as iPods have become nothing special
iPods = crap
Buddy of mine has an iRiver which kicks ass on all the other iPods on the block and he bought it a few years ago
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When I bought my Ipod, the IRivers looked like they there were having some problems with the larger hard drives, and they didn't have compatability with winamp, and Ipod had 60 gig at that time where the Iriver 40 gig was ~320, and my ipod costed ~350 on sale sall from ~399.
 
Lyle said:
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i want those my alessandros are too neutral
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I use Sennheiser HD 330 conceived for Rock And Metal. Very comfortable and it covers completely the ears. My pair are old but still works really well! With a good power amp, it does the job perfectly.:rock:
 
I use the senns px100 on my sony mp3/cd player and my new sansa 1 gig flash player(80 bucks) - the sansa kicks the shuffles ass :>
i'm going to buy a nice home system in about a years time -
cd player/amp/good headphones
I want to find a system that works well with the sony sa5000, the most detailed headphone available, and possibly a pair of grados(the metalheads headphone).
I can't fucking wait :>
 
I use a pair of Koss UR40.
Cheap, and nice.

But I don't bother to carry stuff around.
It's silly, and I can't really enjoy music on the move.
 
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