Comments on: We review the latest iPods http://www.techcentral.co.za/we-review-the-latest-ipods/10265/ South Africa's technology news leader Tue, 22 May 2012 09:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Alan Goldberg http://www.techcentral.co.za/we-review-the-latest-ipods/10265/comment-page-1/#comment-304 Alan Goldberg Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:03:53 +0000 http://www.techcentral.co.za/?p=10265#comment-304 One thing most people seem to miss, is that while you can get 40 gazillion songs onto an iPod Classic (with compression) the Classic now large enough to hold most peoples music collections WITHOUT compression. This was the one thing that might have held back certain audiophiles from moving to digital. The quality loss that comes with AAC or MPEG compression has now been removed as an obstacle to adoption. No longer. One thing most people seem to miss, is that while you can get 40 gazillion songs onto an iPod Classic (with compression) the Classic now large enough to hold most peoples music collections WITHOUT compression.

This was the one thing that might have held back certain audiophiles from moving to digital. The quality loss that comes with AAC or MPEG compression has now been removed as an obstacle to adoption.

No longer.

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