Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]
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Most people know the iPhone and iPods have terrible sound quality. I always found leaving EQ off works best. The reason being that Apple sees the iPod targeted towards casual listeners (e.g. top 40 and hot song of the moment) and so they don't bother with decent audio hardware.
For the count, the old 80s record transfers sound the best.
After the touch I have now dies, I'll be getting something with way better sound quality and unreliant on iTunes.
I always leave EQ off as well. But I can't believe this is true, I mean iPod is like THE mp3 player. It can't be this popular whilst doing its core function so badly. And the iPhone has more than enough juice to outdo a $100 Samsung player at audio decoding.
It makes no sense whatsoever.