Radiopaq's Sound Jacket improves nano sound quality, according to this handy chart
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted July 6th 2009 1:47PM
posted July 6th 2009 1:47PM
Accessories aimed at the iPod nano 4G crowd are always a curious affair. Isn't the whole point to have your tunes on-the-go, with a minimal of fuss? And aren't costly (and bulky) add-ons the definition of "fuss?" We seriously doubted there was much of a market for the portable speaker attachment we saw a few weeks back, and now it's Radiopaq's turn to get us scratchin' our heads. The iPod Sound Jacket claims to do away with "the distortion that can sometimes result from a static EQ setting" and reveal the "hidden detail in the music that is lost during MP3 compression." In other words, it seems to be a graphic equalizer. One that you have no control over, to boot. Sound familiar? But then again, according to the product literature the device boosts sound quality "up to 60 percent." If only it were able to boost our self esteem by, say, 40 percent or more. Now that would be well worth the £69.99 (roughly $115).
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I was about to say its the first comment you made that I agreed with. Then I saw the "b".
Sweet! An external, always on Loudness button! Finally something that takes the guess work out of making music sound like shit...
It depends on how well your ears are trained. I play the piano, and I notice I can hear things that non-musicians can't. I'm not a professional pianist, but my ears are trained enough to notice that professional (classical) musicians can hear things that even I can't. My teacher points out my mistakes in sound all the time. I think 10 years of intense ear training, I can hear what professionals can, but since I'm lazy, that means never.
I know professional pianists who can tell if someone has played before them on their favorite stage piano after it has been tuned. Then there are some who can tell if a window has been open over night just by playing on a piano and so on. I can tell if a sound source has been shifted 1/4" right or left from 2 feet away. And if pianists are this sensitive, just imagine violinists, where they rely more on their ears than pianists do.
I strongly disagree. If you listen to music with a decent pair of headphones, you can easily tell the difference. It's a lot harder to notice the difference through a normal pair of speakers.
I wonder what metrics are used when they say it "Improves the Audible performance of any MP3 track by at least 60% or more when used with headphones, earphones or IPod audio docks"
Like dude.. that sounds 60% better...
@ bartoron
You say that it's harder to hear the difference through speakers but I can hear it easily. Does that mean I have good ear training? :P
louder isn't better.
Am I the only one who finds it amusing that even in their own graph there is virtually no difference in frequency response and "double amplification" means a laughable 3dB?
(Well, to be fair 3dB _is_ double.. But it's useless...)
iPods run AAC just convert all your music to AAC for the same effect.
What?
If anything, converting between file types will make the sound worse.
Or maybe just buy a better quality player ?
lol why do you guys bother to respond to this post. I'm sure Paul thinks 128kbps DRM'ed AAC played off the iPod nano headphone opamp is already the best audio ever. And of course he uses the stock iPod buds, because Steve Jobs made them so clearly no headphone could ever be better.
Bullshit.