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Video Shows Completely Redesigned Headphones for iPhone 5
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I've tried the Senn's and Sony's and I don't like them. The current Apple headphones are the only ones I like. I just found out I have a pair from my iPhone 4S box. So there's my back-up pair for now. Maybe I'l try and grab another pair while I can.
Even if it's true they'll still sound rubbish and be bad for your ears. Go get some decent in ears!
are you joking? yes, CDs are compressed. the sound waves are interpolated, compressed, etc. they are certainly not lossless when compared to the original waves.
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completely wrong. compared to the original recordings, the audio waves pressed onto CDs are certainly compressed. a trained ear can hear the difference; or you can look at the waves. CDs are interpolated.
I see we're still calling it iPhone 5.
Hey, tell me. What is the next iPhone going to be called again?
The term "compression" usually refers to "data compression", that means that by several mathematical tricks (huffmann coding, fourier analysis and synthesis, stereo signal processing, reduction of sampling rate to name some) the size of these files are reduced while trying to keep the audible quality the same. There are a lot of variations of this kind of processing.
What I think you are trying to say is that the data on a CD is digitalized or quantized. That is an inevitable part of the processing and every digital data is quantized. That is just how the technology works. However at 44100 Hz/16 bit this is considered to be not audible. The Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem explains why that is the case: At 44100 Hz sampling frequency the highest possible frequency is 22050 Hz. Human hearing capabilities are limited to hearing up to 20 kHz (and that is certainly not the case any longer if you are older than, say 20 years). The "vertical" quantization (16 bit) results in a very subtle noise in the background. Most people can't hear this at volumes considered normal.
You also compared the recording to the original sound waves. That is pretty much senseless. You can never achieve a recording that sounds flawlessly like the original waves, as they always are just a (carefully and consciously chosen) excerpt of all the information in the real sound waves. In the signal path you have a microphone, you have a microphone amp, you have an A/D-converter, you have mixing software and at home you have a D/A-Converter, an amp and most important you have loudspeakers. Loudspeakers and Microphones are most likely the bottlenecks of this signal path. The processing in between is pretty much (please forgive me audiophiles) working perfectly nowadays (considering decent quality). The software processing in between is also very important. You see, audio recordings do not claim to be a perfect image of real sounds. Audio recordings do not try to fool you into thinking there is a real band sitting behind your speakers. The tweaking of the sound in the post processing is considered part of the artistic work.
There are recording of live performances as well, but believe me, you certainly don't need to have trained ears to be able to tell that the sounds coming from your loudspeakers are not "real". So thinking about that, I have absolutely no idea what your problem is.
They seem to resemble the Bose headphones and I'm not a fan those anymore. I wish Apple would return to using the DAC made by Wolfson, like they did with devices like the iPod 5G...
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- iPhone 3G
- iPhone 3Gs
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- iPhone 4 [Verizon]
- iPhone 4s
- the next iPhone
Oh, good. By that logic, they're going to skip straight from iPhone 4s to iPhone 7!
It'll be the 'iPhone 5' or the new 'iPhone'. It won't be the 'iPhone 6' *or* the 'iPhone 7'.
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If you want to be surprised you need to stop visiting rumour sites.
Seriously there haven't been many true surprises since the original iMac and even that wasn't a surprise to me because the company I was working for at the time had been sent a prototype to ensure that our software would be compatible on day 1.
How can people not see that the big opening goes inside your ear and the metal grill goes on the outside? Has anyone actually looked at any earphones? There is always a little opening for ventilation. And I would like to say that the new design looks at more comfortable than the ones out right now and a LOT better.
You don't NEED inline controls, but I get your point. Good that all the makes I quoted make iPhone compatible headphones with inline controls (or have separate cables available with mic / control with Shure).