Apple iPhone...........

[icehockeyboy]

Just had an e mail alert from What Hifi mag, stating they have just done a test on the above mentioned phone.

Now, pardon me for asking this, but what the f*** has a phone got to do with hifi, and before any smart Alec mentions it can play music............don't!

[icehockeyboy]

Mods.....did you actually read the content of the post , or just the title before you moved it?

It isn't a phone question, more a why is a hifi mag reviewing it.

[Marco]

It don't matter, sweety... I simply saw the word 'iPhone' mentioned, and so tucked the 'thread' safely out of the way from the general audio section of the forum, in case people looking in thought we were riff-raff who condone using such tat!

TBH, though, I'm more worried about one of our members admitting that he gets email alerts from What? (where's the HI-fi?)!

Marco.

[Butuz]

Iphone = Ipod so whats the problem??

Butuz

[Marco]

Lol - you're talking to someone who lives stanchly in the analogue age and hates bloody 'gadgets'!

Marco.

[icehockeyboy]

TBH, though, I'm more worried about one of our members admitting that he gets email alerts from What? (where's the HI-fi?)!

Marco.

Me too! I guess they must have saved my e maill addy from about 10 years ago when I actually did subscribe to what was once an almost decent mag, as it is now, well, reviewing a phone says it all really!

[Jac Hawk]

I think it's probably to do with the whole Apple iTunes thing, unfortunately it's a fact of life now that most younger people buy their music via electronic download and wouldn't consider buying a CD or vinyl, in my opinion sometime during the 90's mainstream hifi became less about the sound it made and more about how it looked and fitted in to ones home, it was the package deal people wanted with CD cassette dvd and tuner all in one pretty box, ohh and don't forget the speakers had to come with it too. Sound quality for the majority of people was an after thought, and since then it's only gotten worse, convenience rules my friends, folks want everything in one package, phone, stereo, video and camera, they also want all their tunes available to them all the time without having the inconvenience of carting round a truck load of CD's.

Anyway rant over, I'm happily inconvenienced by my collection of black and silver spinny things and long may it continue

[WAD62]

Lol - you're talking to someone who lives stanchly in the analogue age and hates bloody 'gadgets'!

Marco.

...so what was your stance RE the original Sony Walkman Marco...an analogue gadget?

Everyone needs a bit of music 'on the go', especially if your commuting via public transport.

I think 'portable music players' are a reasonable subject for this site, and I suppose that's one of the functions most people will use their 'smartphones' for.

They are now 'Super-gadgets'

I use an HTC, FLAC via a Texas Instruments DAC chip into my Beyer Dynamics inner ear phones is not too shabby at all mate...