Made A New Ipod ===> Md Convert

[1kyle]

Was on a train yesterday evening (believe it not it's a very rare animal but you CAN ocasionally find a train that works in the UK on a Sunday without having the luck of a Lottery winner) listening to Mozart's Tosca (might not be everyone's favourite but a real change from all the"House" thump that seems to be around these days) on a decent pair of Sennheisers.

The guy opposite was listening to his Ipod and asked me "What's that device you've got" (my NH1). Anyway I told him and he tried --Opera wasn't his first choice but he was so impressed with the sound quality compared with the Ipod that he was going to order one when he got home.

He liked the look also of the NH1 and couldn't believe what his Ipod sounded like when he tried my Cans (Sennheiser top of the line Cans --HD 650) -- instead of "the White headphones" --nor could I --it was really hideous.

He'd never heard of MD's before and thought that all portable music had to sound pretty horrible as per Ipod but was just something you "tolerated" for the convenience of having music available while travelling.

Anyway he was really pleased you certainly can get decent sound on the move and it doesn't have to be Opera either.

So SONY we are doing your job for you -- MARKET THIS STUFF -- and really show how the audio quality difference --especially at HI-SP and PCM can make the IPOD not even make the STARTING BLOCKS.

So another convert --the medium doesn't have to DIE --SONY --lots of life in it yet.

Cheers

-K

Edited June 27, 2005 by 1kyle

[Keith]

I think you'll find tha Puccini wrote Tosca.

Good work though.

Keith

[1kyle]

I think you'll find tha Puccini wrote Tosca.

Good work though.

Keith

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You're right of course !!! --Someone's obviously awake this morning

Cheers

-K

[The Low Volta]

I was actually converted to (Hi-)MD in almost the same way... I was struggling on a train with all my cabling and media as I was carrying a PCDP (and 32 CD's in wallet) and a audiocasette recorder/walkman (for taping interviews and relistening them) and a bunch of casettes, which were being ruined by all sorts of sharp objects tangling up the ribbon...while the person oposite me smiled quite amused... he then showed me see his MD and let me hear some music (recorded in SP so near CD-quality, especially on a train) and switched discs and let me hear some of his band practice (which sounded so much clearer than my casette recorder could do) so I was quite interested in the format...

when I got to a shop, I had a second surprise as the guy working there said: "what MD, forget about that stuff... this is the future: Hi-MD" so I stumbled from taping on audio casette with an internal mic to Hi-MD (Hi-SP and external mic) so you don't even have to ask what this has done for me!

I now travel light: I've got a relatively small but very strong digit camera pouch (Lowepro) with my recording gear, extra gumstick batt, AA-addon, lenscleaning fabric for cleaning plugs and six discs and my NH900 in a caselogic MDcase on my belt... thanks to the high density medium I have enough music with me to never get bored and always have a lot of free (or erasable) space to make recordings, expected/planned or not... and I already explained my setup and showed the quality to about five ppl (on the train and at my uni), though I do not know whether they actually turned to MD. I also have converted an ex-MD user who turned i-puddle back to the format by showing my NH900's improvements over the MD-format

so keep converting ppl...we won't get credited by Sony but it might help keeping the format alive

Volta: preacher in the name of the Hi-'n'mighty-MD