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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
artmaltman OP
769 posts
 
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
aida_w
308 posts
 
>>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!
edesilva
768 posts
 
>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.
audiofankj
373 posts
 
Don't think you are wrong. I have just called two Best Buy's, two Circuit City's, and two Apple stores, all are out of the 4 gig nano. Won't be grabbing mine today...

Good idea, would like to hear your thoughts on the sound quality...
artmaltman OP
769 posts
 
OK, why don't we open up this thread to discussion of sound quality. I am not getting the flood of emails I expected. Let's just discuss it here on the 'gon.

I'm going to with-hold my comments until tomorrow, because I want to hear it carefully some more tonight after break-in, and also I want to compare it head to head with my mini. (I'm letting it play all day today without listening to it, just to make sure it's broken in, in case that makes a difference.)

If I have time I'll also visit the Apple store and compare mine to one in the store (if they have one!) to make sure that mine is typical.

Art
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