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February 15, 2003
Digital Lifestyle II
Well, I guess my digital lifestyle is pretty much feature-complete. Today, I got an iPod (20 Gb kind) and these weird SoundSticks w/iSub speakers. I still have little clue of what to do with iPod, but I had an opportunity to get it cheap, so I got it. Speaking of iPod, disappointing is that it doesn't supports cyrillic ID3 tags, so half of the songs in my library are listed as spaces. Not nice. And SoundSticks, I actually quite like them, despite what I have heard from many people (bad sound output, blah blah). Sure, you wouldn't host a party off these sticks, but they work just fine shooting music at my face when I am sitting here typing in ProjectBuilder and friends. And iSub is just great, glowing in the dark like a Come on, Apple, we need new toys out soon, or I'll have to buy one of these Xserve RAIDs...   Posted by slava at February 15, 2003 08:57 AMTrackback Pings: TrackBack URL for this entry: Related:
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The iPod is great form motivation at the gym. Just turn up your favorite MP3 real load and jump on your favorite exercise machine. Actually I have the Creative Nomad 5 gig MP3 player, but once I loose it or kill it I will replace it with the iPod. I'd personally recommend returning the Soundsticks and getting some Monsoons. For almost have the price you get a LOT better sound quality, imho. Posted by: Etan on February 15, 2003 10:31 AMso, does this mean we're going to see the first iPod haxie from Unsanity, to add support for cyrillic ID3 tags? ;) Posted by: philzilla on February 15, 2003 11:52 AMEtan is right, my Monsoon MM1000 does sound a hell lot better than the sound sticks... ^^ Monsoon rules! Posted by: oeyvind on February 15, 2003 2:27 PMThe Soundsticks look nice, but are so expensive! My Monsoon MM-702's sound better, look better (they match my TiBook more) and are less expensive. http://www.monsoonaudio.com/mm702.shtml Posted by: Etan on February 15, 2003 7:02 PMMy friend, who just 1 year and 4 months ago, was a Beta Tester for XP saying, "This is gonna be big. You can HAVE your Mac OS X. XP is the greatest OS in the world." just literally bought a 17" PowerBNook off Apple.com. He bought it to go with his 17" iMac and iPod. And he bought a DV Camera and has a Digital Camera. And is selling his Dell. He says he's going for the whole Digital Hub. I'm still shocked how fast he converted. I've done my job. :-D Posted by: Jason Anderson on February 16, 2003 2:08 PMRe: Harman/Kardon SoundSticks & iSub: I have no idea what crap people may be talking about them, but they RULE. I *would* host a party with these things. They sound better than a lot of large home stereo speakers that cost far more. Sure, I wouldn't try to play a live gig with them as the amps or anything >;-), and sure they aren't a $5000 Bose snob soundsystem, but for non-deafening audio playback at near-audiophile quality they do in fact kick some butt (and, as you note Slava, for shooting sound right at your face, they're great.) Posted by: Stanton McCandlish on February 21, 2003 5:08 PMPS: I'm not bashing the Monsoons. Never tried them. For all I know maybe they *do* rival a $5000 Bose snob sound system. Heh. Posted by: Stanton McCandlish on February 21, 2003 5:11 PMKeep comments on topic. If a comment is unrelated to this post, it may be removed or moderated. |