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
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...
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
I'll be comparing it to a mini. That's the only iPod that I have available for comparison.
Art
>>I'll be comparing it to a mini. That's the only iPod that >>I have available for comparison
You can't compare the hardware only!
Which compression format? ACC? Apple Lossless?