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iPod Classic 160GB
By: Laiq Qureshi   |   Feb 29, 2008
  • 4.5

Music

The sound certainly feels more refined compared to the fifth generation, and this too was expected. The player supports MP3, AIFF, WAV and AAC, plus Apple lossless and Audible files. Native WMA files aren't supported, but protected AAC files work – provided they are bought from the iTunes store.



The music quality as usual is brilliant. Apple has worked on the sound, giving a more punch-packed output. The mid-level frequencies are more responsive now. The company should have included manual EQ settings as well, but I don't suppose any amount of bad press is going to get Apple to do that!

There are, however, loads of presets for different genres of music. The earphones provided are pretty good. FM Radio still eludes the iPod, for reasons I can't quite understand.

Video
Video format support include H.264 video, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio, M4V, MP4, and MOV file formats. Video conversion can be a pain, and iTunes is yet another pain in the posterior. You still can't drag and drop, and support for third party applications like Winamp have been removed.



This is bad, considering it requires the new iTunes to work with it, and is mighty slow. God help you if you have a slow machine! I tested the same movie with the 30GB iPod, and found that the black levels are much truer in the Classic, and some of the issues I faced with the fifth generation iPod (such as mosaic compression) have been minimized.

Start up time for videos is fast, and you won’t face any trouble even while the videos change (or music, for that matter). It’s the navigation that's a bitch. But you have to realize that once the player is full, the 160GB of content can be quite a handful to manage efficiently.


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You guys may feel like that,Even I was also thinking in that way ...but,when My friend bought iPod classic 80GIG for 11.4K from ebay with international warrenty I was a bit amused with the priced and the sound differs a lot from conventional SE or Nokia phones.Guys ,truly speaking iPod ROCKS IT ROCKS A LOT U DONT KNOW GUYS..IT IS A WAY BEYOND ANY MP3 GADGET..U CANT GET SUCH SOUND IN NSERIES AND ALSO IN ANY SE PHONES ABOVE 15K...The only limitation for iPOD is that ear phones doesnt have a noise cancellation feature as SE earphones have(They can be plugged fully in to ears,cancelling the sounds from surroundings) ..
ashik @ Aug 09, 2008
my dad bought me an ipod from india and it only plays mp4 songs can i sell it?
blah @ Jul 12, 2008
IPOD CLASSIC 160 GB,rockzzz baby !!!
just got my hands on it, Its really different sound is better, video output is really awesome, and i love the COVERFLOW smooth nice!!!!

Totally out of box, has tons of space, really like a travel mate since i travel a lot. Very responsive!!!! and the power is totally endless, you must get your hand on this !!!!!
My rating to this superb machine
99\100.
Noel Avileli @ Mar 15, 2008
plz gift it to me dude
sahil @ Mar 12, 2008
ipods audio is average, they say and the bundled earphones is also average. unless u have exceptional ears, a good phone is more than enough. but don`t go for crappy phones, go 4 the good ones out there. i`m lucky to hear from creative ep-630, bose in-ear and sennheiser(around 25000). they all sounded the same though sennheiser feels a bit good. but thats not worth the money u pay for. i think creative one doing the job well. unless u feel like the the sound is crappy don`t buy any fancy items. hear it before u buy. same applied pmp`s, monitors- see it before u buy. price/performance is the key. u need to benefit for the money u pay. experiance says it all
joseph @ Mar 09, 2008
Completey agree with Nabeel.. I mean why so hue & cry about ipod.. I had an ipod video 80GB a year ago and there was nothing much you could do except listening to few songs... You cant utilize the whole 80GB even if you listen to music for a week or so.. The quality is good no doubt but nowadays cellphones do have quality which can give ipod a run for its money... Getting an ipod and paying ridiculously large money for it is definitly not a good idea...Though it serves as a good external drive...
Qazi @ Mar 03, 2008
may be you feel it that way, listening music on an ipod is a completely different experience, you don't mind carrying three gadgets (phone, camera and ipod) if you are a perfectionist, the pics from a digicam are way ahead in quality when compared to a phone, so it is not a stupid idea to have three gadgets instead of a single one which is like a "jack of all and master of none".
ravi @ Mar 03, 2008
I still dont understand why people are hyped about I pods?! My questions are why do people like to carry a lot of devices around when all could come under one the best example being mobile phones.. Not the ordinary ones the ones from Nokia etc... They provide ample performance and they are sufficient for a lot of stuff.. U can take pics with a high mega pixel camera or take videos or listen to music attend calls manage contacts get connected to internet and still a lot more that a conventional i pod cannot do... So i dont see the idea of getting an i pod over a phone that has ten folds of functionality than a multimedia player... As for storage dude its a fact we dont listen to all the music thats released or sung in the same month or week we get bored and eventually delete the old songs once we are bored .... So if one is really dying for storage he can get a phone that has hot swaps with storage cards as much as he likes... My point is getting an i pod is a stupid idea....
Nabeel Al Makkawi @ Mar 02, 2008
i like this babby
it is really cool
may beeee.... i cant buy this
i love to take as a gift from u
ms krishna kanth @ Mar 02, 2008
I have d 5th gen video pod....d 30gb one...which feels really tiny if seen against d 120 monster(in terms of mem power) . I was thinkin of upgradin 2 d 160 very soon but den it doesn't have AV out (which i use widely)...big time sad thing...somethin dat i really didnt like in ma ipod was d NO MANUAL GRAPHIC EQUALIZER. I love my pod cos its been a rock steady electronic gadget i'v had till now n still goin strong...though at times carryin it in d bone crushin crowd of Mumbai locals is a hassle...d bigger size jus adds 2 it now...d 160 really appeals 2 ma heart but falls back drastically in practicality.
It has as many things 2 hate 4 as many 2 love 4...its how much u can compromise over all d things dat r missin
Jay @ Mar 01, 2008
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