Originally Posted by Dolf
I still find my conclusion that 50% of hikers are content with lossy on their portables surprising and does not bode well to provide an incentive for manufacturers to build the gear that I would like.
Dolf, I don't agree with your conclusion. I could afford a $500 pair of 'phones, but mobile music is just not important to me at the moment. Also, I'm not sure I'd want to cart an expensive set of relatively fragile 'phones with me to the gym. On another note, at home, I do not listen to most of my music on my best system... I use my F80 and (new) Squeezebox Boom for most of my listening. Unless money is not an object, it is simply not possibly for optimal listening everywhere.

Despite what others have said, for the types of music I listen to on the move (pop/rock) you will be hard pressed to differentiate between lossless and 320kBit CBR. In fact, 320kBit might actually be considered overkill for the environments that I listen in.

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