I've been searching for the right MP3 player for me and in the end to get the value for money just do not order the iPod rum. About the technical features was indeed now written enough in other recessions, so I'll save myself the time. I missed no one what hat.Mit wrote about the sound in most "sounds good" or "sounds great" I can not begin so much personally and have already feared the worst when I ordered the Pod. Unfortunately, that were then confirmed when I then took the Classic for the first time in operation .How can only someone write this sauce of mids and highs paired with a distorted bass "good or even" great "to be? First time about me: I am working in the last 25 years in my spare much the topic Audio, always searching for the perfect sound. I've built a lot of boxes and infinite dunno how many days I spent this thus possessed by rumlöten soft to and modify another and think that a relatively well-trained ear. That should be really no details but the one or other skeptics convey that I have a bit knows what I'm talking or where my needs are. Clear the which may not be as high settled at MP3's, but if you convert a CD with a good program and a rate of 256 neatly achieved very good results that the CD actually come right, but not on the iPod.Die music sounds as if you're sitting in a tin can and it tries with a portable radio to beschallen.Da also helps the EQ Built-nothing, and I did not care about those things anyway. But there is hope, even for the Classic. I just could not imagine that such a popular device has such a humble tone. So I once connected my studio headphones and lo and behold, it is a bit of genius Klang.Weil I would find ridiculous with the huge gizmos in the gym to train so had to been a few new stud earrings. Also rolled back a few days recessions and magazines and finally came across the Sony MDR-EX 90 and gekauft.Der Hammer !!!! These headphones of iPod sounds exactly as I hoped it .Glas clear highs that act even properly spatially, a bass of depending on the title of bone dry (zBIncubus, rock or hard rock) up to a nice swirling bass (eg Timberland or Rap ) ranges in which you almost really feel has this feeling in my stomach, and all this without coming to verzerren.Die middle still a little too dominant in my opinion, but absolutely bearable and the course without EQ.Bei titles of Chicane or Schiller makes you feel surrounded by a cloud of sound, at Life recordings of the Corrs one thinks that you're sitting in a concert hall and you can hear how the sides of the guitars are played, which makes properly Spaß.Natürlich comes since even a portion of taste to .What the one feels as a perfect sound, the other is not so, but there are clear divisions which human beings perceive as pleasant. I just think it's sad that Appel not directly attaches a few reasonable headphones iPod and would not know how many buyers behind him have the same initial disappointment as ich.Da builds you a really great device, and then cuts himself in the one defective accessories beilegt.Wäre indeed stupid if Ferrari would seal off his car at 100 MPH. Conclusion: Class device with a lot of bells and whistles but when buying it is essential to have the cost of a new headset schedule, therefore, only 4 Sterne.Aber even the price-performance ratio is still OK