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On the go.

When I am commuting or traveling I've got to have music. Preferring analog, in the past I've used personal walkman type devices. Seven years ago I purchased a top on the line AM/FM cassette made by AIWA. It had a damn good tuner and equally good tape playback. I knew I could travel anywhere and have my music and great sound as well.
These days the makers of portable devices couldn’t care less about cassette or fm tuners or quality sound. I know IPOD has a strong presence but I have not gone the MP3 route yet. If I have to I will, kicking and screaming. Is it good fidelity?
What are some quality devices that produce great sound for travel and convenience? Do I have to give up cassette? I do use a very expensive sony CD player but is there something better? Is this an important issue for anyone else? Thank you for any comments.
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brooks
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That's the beauty of the iPod..you don't have to store anything as an mp3 file. I have over 25 hours of tunes on mine and all are stored as Apple lossless files. They are compressed but lossless. If you want you can store AIFF or WAV files (both uncompressed), these will be larger files and the battery will wear drive down faster because the hard drive must be spun many more times, but it sounds as good as a cd (which is of course a AIFF file anyway.
Steve
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