finally: MB Quart review (sorry for long delay) :(

[x5GuyInLA]

Originally Posted by crosvs

...when I first tried the speakers, my breath that I'd been holding as I waited for the music to start playing never really let out with the satisfaction I was hoping for ... while they definitely seemed to sound a bit less muffled, it wasn't the day/night experience I was anticipating.

Nonetheless, I continued listening to them and kept trying different types of music.

And that's when it struck me: my older iPod music had been unintelligently sampled ussing AAC @ 128 kbit/sec. So I quickly switched over to MP3 @ 192 kbps and even CD audio, and then FM and XM.

And I'm pleased to announce that yes indeed, there is a day and night difference after all...

I was wondering if you played MP3s sampled at 192kbps with the old speakers as well, or only 128kbps AAC files? If not, then that probably explains why you had the day/night experience after playing the 192kbps files and not before. I'm in LA and definitely would love to hear how the speakers compare to the stock ones. I play only files that are 192kbps and up and I think the stock speakers aren't that bad if you have the DSP set properly. When will you be here in LA and where in LA will you be?

[crosvs]

Hey everyone-

I'm glad to see my little review was at least somewhat informative. To answer a few of the questoins:

(1) while I never listened to 192 kbps music with the stock speakers, I DID used to listen to CD-audio now and then and certainly the radio; and I can say that these speakers DEFINITELY improved on boht CD-audio and radio as well, not to mention XM

(2) I'll necessarily be in LA *NEXT* weekend (22-24) for my birthday, and MAYBE this coming weekend (14-17). This weekend I'd be staying in Beverly Hills and next weekend I'd (most likely) be staying in the Valley (Tarzana).

[justintmn]

Quick question, guys: How do you change your Ipod to play from 128kbp to 196kbp? Another one is that I have a 60Gb Video Ipod and at roughly two thousand songs, it took up 12.6 Gb of hard drive space. I know the Nano 4 Gb can hold up to 1000 songs. Am I doing something wrong or is there a compression feature that I did not activate? Most of my songs were converted to ACC file using the Itune software.

Justin.

[el_duderino]

It's IN the iTunes software. Set Quality to Highest. But if the file's already been compressed, you are out of luck, you have to re-burn it.

If you get the song from iTunes it's NOT at highest, but some places were selling better-quality songs.

[justintmn]

Thanks Ken,

Justin.

Originally Posted by el_duderino

It's IN the iTunes software. Set Quality to Highest. But if the file's already been compressed, you are out of luck, you have to re-burn it.

If you get the song from iTunes it's NOT at highest, but some places were selling better-quality songs.

[Micah D. Cranman]

Thanks for the review Marc!