ipod/itunes problems

merganser,
you have your right to offer your comments but i feel your answer is what is specifically what is wrong with high end audio today. i have been involved on the retail side of audio since the mid seventies and a music lover of all types of music for longer than that. i have quite a collection of mid and high end audio in my home at any given time for evaluation and pleasure. upper priced audio in its prime was justified with music reproduction. how many times did any of you out there buy equipment based on a piece of music you might never of heard before. in my case i bought double advents in the 70's after hearing emerson lake and palmer "lucky man" and linda ronstadt "love has no pride". later on i upgraded to infinity qls-1 when i heard billy cobham. the quads i listen to today are from an experience with an obscure piece of classical music that blew me away. today the overlying attitude is arrogance and snobbery...not the music hobby club type affiliation we had. in audio retail we use to dress in denin shirts and blue jeans. today it is business casual or corporate dress. have we grown up or are we too full of ourselves? ipod is recognized in the pages of stereophile and used by such respected companies as wilson audio. i simply posted a question as i have been unable to get a fix from either apple support or their discussion groups. i apologize if i offended you or any other audiogon reader. but i agree with a couple of the feedbacks...lighten up

If Dave Wilson can demonstrate his speakers with the ipod as the source component, then I think we have to let ipod in here. If you didn't know of this, he did it at an HE show a while back. He had a Krell 25i CD player as a "dummy" and showed at the end of the demo he was using an ipod as the source. There's going to be an absolute sound article coming up about what's more important, the source or the speakers. Guess we know where David Wilson will be on that topic.

iPOD, schmiPOD. People have lost their ears. I delight in loaning friends 25 year old pieces of gear, usually amplifiers but sometimes speakers and embarrassing their new toys.

The iPOD has a place to be sure, it's just not for critical listening.

A respectable dealer pointed me toward a new (broken in)pair of $2,000/pr. ProAc speakers with delight. I listened and then politely offered my Rogers LS3/5As which had just been upgraded with better wire for comparison. The dealer, fully acquainted with Rogers invited the comparison. The Rogers disassembled the ProAcs. 25 year old technology should not stand a chance, but does and often bests the new.

This scenerio is repeated time and time again. The newest is rarely the best at this junture.

Looks like a few feathers have been ruffled by my comment...

Roundmoundofsound, I wasn't offended nor did I mean to offend, it's just my opinion. The guys at the ultra high end shops in my area still wear blue jeans as do I. It's got nothing to do with snobbery, just sound quality .

Christopher, you don't know my name, so don't pretend you do. This comment from you says more than I could, ".....it (iPOD) actually sounds pretty good considering the format through my system." A Bose Wave radio can sound pretty good too if you don't listen closely.

I think Celtic66 hit the nail on the head, "The iPOD has a place to be sure, it's just not for critical listening." And that is what I based my original comment on.

Happy listening to all.

Merganser, nowhere in the original post was it stated that the iPod was a high end device suitable for "critical listening", therefore your original response was irrelevant and totally unhelpful.

You might be able to find an answer to the skipping problem here.