iPod Nano Sound Quality - Your Feedback Please?


My initial impression of the Nano sound quality is different than I expected. I would like to hear from others.

HOWEVER, if you don't mind, I'd like to run this as a blind collection of feedback. Instead of posting our collective impressions, discussing them, and in the process INFLUENCING EACH OTHER, please - at least at first - just drop me a short email with your impressions of the sound quality of the Nano. I'll post a summary of responses after a relatively short time, probably a week.

I will summarize the responses anonymously but after I do that feel free to own up to your opinion in this or other discussion boards.

Email to:
artmaltman@yahoo.com

In this discussion thread, for the moment, feel free to post your opinion of my IDEA of doing this. Do you think it's a good idea to initially collect feedback that is not influenced by discussion with other members, or is this too... what?

Thanks!
Art

ps: I'm not necessarily suggesting that you hook up the nano to your main audiophile system rig, although that might be interesting. My own testing has been done under circumstances that I normally plan to use the nano in; that is, with stock earbuds, a $25 pair of Sony "sports" headphones, and a $200 pair of Shure e3c. But you do your own thing, and summarize the results.
artmaltman
Well, it has to do digital-to-analog conversion, right?

Art, this is a good idea, but two things:

This topic may be premature by a month or more. Do you think a bunch of Audiogoners are running out to get the nanos right away as you did?

You should probably give your nano a bit more break in time.
I considered whether this would be premature, but well, I'm in effect asking people to NOT discuss the sound quality of the nano, and I think I'll at best have a brief window of time on this.

Yes I do think a lot of Audiogoners took one look at the nano, as I did, and had to have one right away. But I could be wrong.

Art
>>it is just an embedded hard drive with information, right?
Wrong! It's a flash player (like the Shuffle) and as such definitely a non hifi unit!
>Yes I do think a lot of Audiogoners took one look at the
>nano, as I did, and had to have one right away. But I could
>be wrong.

Not wrong. I bought two. :)

Strange thing is that even the commercials don't do the little bugger justice. Speaking from a non-audiophile perspective (I actually haven't listened to it yet), the Nano is about the sweetest industrial design I've ever seen.