iPod Shuffle vs larger iPod's

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I just wanted to know if there was a noticable difference (or any) in sound quality between the iPod Stuffle and the regular iPod with the screen.
 
watch out though.. pretty much every idiot seems to have cooked up some sort of explaination for it

read this for example... the number of inaccurate analogies nearly made me fall out of my chair laughing :P

apparently, he seems to have mixed up direct coupled , push- pull and class A amplifiers:rofl:
 
I have no clue what those means anyways...

@ Nikhil: Its a new product Apple and I are launching...its exactly like a iPod Shuffle except its spelt Stuffle :P
 
I have listened to music on both of them and didnt find any difference in sound .What made go for nano is the screen ,search functionality which is missing in shuffle .

when compactness is considered shuffle scores but nano is not far behind.
 
well i did read once that of all the products of this APPLE music gizmo .. the best sound quality is supposed to be in IPOD shuffle ..

reason being , that is gives the o/p in the square sine wave format ..

The 40Hz square wave is an extreme test, since it asks the output stage to act like an amplifier, driving to a full voltage, holding it at that level, then driving back the opposite way.

This is really a test of the output stage and possibly the power supply, but it's been noted many times that an amplifier is nothing more than a modulated power supply.

All of the digital audio players do a decent job of reproducing the square wave without a load. With the earbuds plugged in, they generally have difficulty sustaining the voltage, and it collapses back towards zero. Some sustain better than others. One in particular sustains remarkably well and subjectively has noticeably better bass response.

The reason being that the left and right channels each have two transistors, one pushing, one pulling, and no capacitor that gets discharged over time.

The ipod shuffle doesnt in theory requires a bass boost ..

even at the deepest bass frequencies the load/no load performance is very close in case of the ipod shuffle..

No matter hw mch i hated ipod shuffle .. i had to admit that this baby does pumps up the volume in the right manner ..
 
thing is , i doubt that even if the shuffle , or any portable for that matter could come up with a 40Hz signal, i doubt if the tiny earbuds can play it. i mean, 40 Hz is well into subwoofer territory(and i mean REAL subwoofers), and most normal subwoofers start to choke at 30. IMO 40 was a bad choice of frequency. 60~70 would have been a better indicator(thats the 'punchy' bass region). i guess this guy took the lowest frequency to show off the droop.It shouldnt be a problem at higher frequencies.

also, did anyone notice how the amplitude of the 40 hz response of the shuffle is LOWER than that of the bigger ones?
 
btw, the output drooping has nothing to do with power supply droop. any 2nd year electronics student can say that the output looks like a square wave passed through a capacitor (which it is ):P
 
for starters, i dont see the shuffle's freq response shown anywhere. being direct coupled, it shouldnt go down much at the low frequencies.

but here's the kicker.

Unlike the shuffle, the output stage is analog
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obviously, he doesnt know what he's talking about :lol: the shuffle's output is also analog :P
 
i have an ipod shuffle 512 mb one..the sound is nowhere as good as the orignal ipod..i heard it at a cuzins place.the original ipod has awesome bass and clarity.shuffle is jus ok..nano was good too..but me thinks the best one was the original ipod
 
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