Thanks, Charles. It wasn't checked. Do you listen to classical music? I imagine the reproduction would be fine for pop, but it flunks for chamber or symphonic music.
Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Charles Robinson <charl...@visi.com> wrote: > On Jun 17, 2014, at 08:46 , Richard Womer <rickpic...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Taking the train last evening, I put on my (very good) Sennheiser >> noise-cancelling headphones, plugged them into my iPhone, and started >> Beethoven's Violin Concerto (sublime after a very stressful day). >> >> "Gee," I said to myself halfway through the first movement, "this >> sounds crappy". I tried all of the equalization settings, and found >> "flat" was the best, but it still sounded crappy. >> >> Were my headphones giving out? I pulled out my MBP and played the same >> selection via iTunes--it sounded fantastic. It's the iPhone, not the >> headphones. >> >> So my questions are: >> >> 1. Is the problem that the music player on the iPhone is crap? Is >> there a better one? >> >> 2. Is the problem that the music files are compressed almost beyond >> recognition getting transferred from the MBP to the iPhone? Is there >> any way to circumvent that? >> > > Files transferred from iTunes to your phone aren't (or shouldn't be) > recompressed. But check your settings! > > With your phone connected to iTunes, click on the phone in the left sidebar > so you get the summary (phone, backups, options) in the big window on the > right. > > In the lowest "options" box, look for the checkbox titled: "Convert higher > bit rate songs to xxx AAC". > > If that's checked... UN-check it. Now the music sent to your phone will > just be a COPY of the file from your MBP, not a re-rip of same. > > I find that the music output on my iPhone5 sounds just great to my > 48-year-old ears. > > -Charles > > -- > Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com > Minneapolis, MN > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
