>>Actually, no. My wife owns an iPod, and I have both eShure and Bose earbuds. I hate to sound like a music snob,but the truth is that I am. :)
Well, when you say it with such absolute conviction, of course you must be right. Who cares about RMAA measurements or lab geeks who say that sound quality these days is determined more by earphones and file format. Or about toptenreviews.com whose 2011 review puts Zen at number 5, behind ipod touch and nano. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1