[lexuspilot]

the thing that sucks about itunes is the quality of the music.

I wish hardware would go to dvd audio so that things like itunes can go to cd quality at least. I rip all my cd's at lossless, which is why I have an ipod video for storage. There is a huge difference in sound quality from what I rip to what apple provides via download. I only download music that is "pop" with short term appeal.

I have very limited shock protection when listening to what I ripped in lossless. it is about as good as the porsche car CD player for skips, lol. I theorized that it is due to cache memory size and the lossless recording filling that up in less time.

With the shure E3c earbuds(I highly recommend) you can hear everything in the recording.