Comments on: What’s Wrong with the iPod?

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:58:38 +0000

Just plugged the ipod into the car with exactly the results you describe, specificaly lost bass (mostly), is there anything I can do to get it back? I have a 5th gen nano.

Thanks

Ben

By: A. Webb

A. Webb — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:44:10 +0000

Oh, it’s worse than that. The iTunes software to add music to the iPod crashes WIN XP which has otherwise been stalble.
Face it. Anything Apple is crapple. It deliberately acts out when used on any MSoft application.
I can’t even say what I’d like to because this page wouldn’t not be PG13, it would be XXXX.

By: JeffersonBryant

JeffersonBryant — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:55:51 +0000

I appreciate your comments. Having been on both sides of the fence (retail\manufacturer), I have seen things from a different perspective. I am not saying that the iPod does not have its place, and you can certainly make a few extra sales off it, however, the industry-wide reaction 8 years ago was the starting point. It signaled a move away from fidelity and towards simple convienance. Apple didn’t set out to harm the car audio industry, but as a group, we let it cloud the issue. The latest iPods do not sound that bad, but the early units, which is what I referring to, were horrible. It became a novelty to have 1,000 songs in your pocket, the fact that it didn’t sound as good didn’t matter. There is a lot of blame to go around, but in my opinion, it all started with the iPod.

By: Rick Steinman

Rick Steinman — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:40:07 +0000

I do not agree, when you sell an ipod cable with the Radio you are adding to the sale not taking away, the kids in my area always want the big sound of a full blown system complete with subs and amps.
I also use ipods as a solution for certain problems like when all the OEM indash changers break down and no one has the parts to fix them and the dash is so integrated with the radio you can’t change it without a major custon project I will sell them an interface for an ipod so they have something to listen to. You say the mp3s sound so bad because of compression.
Well the ones I install sound fine to me as compared to other digital and analog devices such as Sat Radio with it’s swirlly low kps sound or FM Radio with it’s reduced highs for lower noise when in multipath distortion. Or even tapes which have far less bass and fidelity then ipods. In many cases the compression helps us to hear the normally quitter sounds in a otherwise noisy environment.
Lets face it real HiFi never really works in a car unless you are playing it with the engine off. If you really want to blame anyone for the slower Car audio bizz blame the Car companies whe make it harder and harder to install a good radio in it, and the lack of government support to keep a radio delete package available. I remember when the new cars would line up in front of the store in September.I also feel that the aftermarket suppliers have sold the retailers out by dealing with the Auto makers suppling them with OEM equipment they have ignored us the retailers.Some like Panasonic have given up completely on the after market.I would also say that in preferring the Big Box store over the Mom and Pop stores they belittle the business and are putting their eggs all in one or two baskets. Soooo stop picking on the ipod.