Comments on: Neil Young doesn’t like the iPod one bit

By: Will

Will — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:48:12 +0000

i love neil young and i love my ipod. When i want to listen to high quality music i dont listen to my ipod, i just put a vinly on and sit play it through a good system with nice speakers.
What im saying is i love good quality audio but im not expecting from an ipod, no matter how good they headphones, or bitrate. ipods are for the conveinience, which i love too!

By: Katy

Katy — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:47:52 +0000

I tend to agree with Nate, maybe the Ipod is too tech for him. Anyway, he’s entitled to his opinion.

By: San Iker

San Iker — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:57:17 +0000

http://www.thedailyswarm.com/watch/neil-youngs-archives-preview/

By: San Iker

San Iker — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:56:41 +0000

This is why he dislikes sub-standard quality kids, from greatness comes greatness… figure it out for yourselves…

By: chris

chris — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:46:00 +0000

“It’s all overproduced pop nonsense anyway, mastered to take into account people are listening on somewhat low quality devices.”

Maybe on your iPod. My 3/4 full 40 gig has none of this “overprouced pop nonsense” on it. Almost all is V0 LAME rips, which when played through my Shure earbuds or my car’s stereo via aux-in, sounds bloody great.

By: Jarett

Jarett — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:50:02 +0000

Every audio file sold on the iTunes store has a 128K bitrate. Whether you agree with him or not, between that and the earbuds, he’s right.

By: AlexNC

AlexNC — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:38:55 +0000

I love me some Neil Young. I have every album he has ever created in mp3 format. But, he is very ill informed on this issue. MP3’s have the ability to sound just as good as CD’s if ripped with good settings. I rip all mine as 192 MP3 VBR High. I consider myself to have a pretty good ear, and I truly can not tell a difference between the original CD and my mp3 rip. As long as you know what you are doing, MP3’s are a great format for music listening and archiving. Sadly, there are a bunch of boneheads out there still ripping at 128 MP3 CBR.

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:20:26 +0000

Does anyone really give a crap what this old coot says?

By: Travis

Travis — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:38:38 +0000

Maybe instead of blaming MP3’s for poor music audio he should blame poor music on the rise in popularity of poor quality MP3’s. Music is pretty bad these days and I could care less if I hear the latest Kid Rock song in Hi Fidelity or as a 64K MP3 through piss poor earbuds – it will suck either way.

By: Scribe

Scribe — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:34:02 +0000

Geez, complaining about the earbuds apple supplies is like complaining about a set of speakers that comes with a fully integrated stereo. Even “back in the day,” if you wanted good fidelity, you upgraded — pair of JBL bookshelfs, top-quality audio gear, etc. I upgraded the earbuds from my 3G iPod to a set of Shures that cost more than the ipod — and couldn’t be happier!

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:08:04 +0000

What a whiner ….. Neil welcome to the 21st century … something tells me he has other beafs … Like the freken 8 track (the music medium of his time) tape had such high quality sound ! Not to mention the record before it.

By: weatherman

weatherman — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:54:09 +0000

I believe it was Neil Young himself who ushered in an era of poor audio quality. As the godfather of grunge and a crooner who can barely carry a tune, he’s really the last one I’d expect to be complaining.

I do love Neil, btw, and I listen to him all the time on my iPod. I’m going to do it even more now just to piss him off.