hi all,

I have a lot of albums (mainly from ocremix) that are in mp3 vbr format. Their sound quality is quite good when play it using my PL30 on my computer. But when I put it into my iphone 3g, the SQ degraded so much that even wooden ear like me can notice.... it is quite disappointing...

are there any settings in iTunes or iphone that can actually maintain the sound quality of MP3 VBR when put into iphones?

why dont u try using portable headphone amp (e.g fiio amp) or try higher birate of mp3 files. i usually use the 192kbps with my bijou... and its sound good....

my other mp3s with 192 or 320k sounded good enough on my 3g. but just these vbr files, especially their bass, are tremendously weakened. is it because of the AAC conversion?

i think that it.., the conversion usually diminish some of the character of the sound.... that is why its sounded weak...

i not really a pro in AAC conversion but, i can say that AAC really weakened your music. i not sure (once read b4), VBR where it only take the important bitrate of the music and discard other less important to create a compress music.

up to now, using mp3 with 320k compression still the best for me.

yeah...... my 320k and 192k convert to AAC is fine. Heck, even my VBR is actually quite good on PC before putting it onto iphone. but after the conversion.......... is OMFG.

why dont u try ALAC? ive got 1 song (and its classic song) and its in ALAC file, similar to FLAC file but its for apple device only, and im satisfied with it.... but the only problem is finding them....

iphone music sQ really sucks ler
not really good for audiphile
if juz wanna to listen then its ok

i wont say suck, there are other better music player, but iphone SQ is ok with me even minus the amping, sitll can hear good decent sound from them....

ya, like me, if i use apple loseless compression, which equivalent to FLAC the sound is good on my in ear phone. after all is classical music, which i cant afford to lose any nice instruments lol..

sigh, need to go through the process of converting my vbrs to static bitrate, hope it help increasing the SQ in iphone.