#290661 - 22/11/2006 18:17
You guys see this ridiculousness?
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#290662 - 22/11/2006 18:22
Re: You guys see this ridiculousness?
[Re: jbauer]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 25/12/2000
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I assume you're referring to the Buy-It-Now price? I was going to point out that unless someone wanted to spend that much, it's still just an auction, but it's not, is it?
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#290663 - 22/11/2006 18:23
Re: You guys see this ridiculousness?
[Re: jbauer]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 13/02/2002
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Loc: Portland, OR
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Perhaps the seller is doing this so they can tell their significant other "I tried to sell it, but no one bought it... guess I'll just have to keep it.".
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#290664 - 22/11/2006 18:24
Re: You guys see this ridiculousness?
[Re: wfaulk]
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Quote: I assume you're referring to the Buy-It-Now price? I was going to point out that unless someone wanted to spend that much, it's still just an auction, but it's not, is it?
Yeah, I hope an uninformed buyer doesn't pay that much...
- Jon
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#290665 - 22/11/2006 18:25
Re: You guys see this ridiculousness?
[Re: jbauer]
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old hand
Registered: 17/01/2003
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Yea, I saw that and thought. Man, this guy can't get oevr the fact he paid a lot for his electronic device years ago and its no longer worth what he paid.
He probably also has a DAT recorder on ebay for $2k or maybe a Sony Beta-max
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#290666 - 22/11/2006 21:01
Re: You guys see this ridiculousness?
[Re: Redrum]
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Registered: 08/07/1999
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I like the part where he says:
I originally paid $2500.00 for this unit when it came out without the upgrades.
I don't think anybody paid quite that much...
tanstaafl.
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#290667 - 23/11/2006 00:37
Re: You guys see this ridiculousness?
[Re: wfaulk]
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addict
Registered: 04/09/2004
Posts: 525
Loc: Oklahoma
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If there is no "bid window" then the Buy It Now price IS the price.
There are auctions that have a "buy it now" price as well as a bid window, but the Buy It Now price will go away once a bid it placed on it. In this case, it looks like the guy wants the buy it now price or nothing...Good Luck, dude!
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#290669 - 25/11/2006 10:06
Re: You guys see this ridiculousness?
[Re: Snowshoe]
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Registered: 25/11/2006
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I paid $1000 for mine in 2003 which was then also considered rare because production had stopped but as most things go out of production it gets valuable in time.. There is much superior products out there today ,,,even devices to hook your ipod to stock stereos but still , EMpeg will always carry it's value as it becomes rarer....so he is taking advantage of that
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#290670 - 25/11/2006 10:12
Re: You guys see this ridiculousness?
[Re: yuppy]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 10/06/1999
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Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
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Quote: EMpeg will always carry it's value as it becomes rarer....so he is taking advantage of that
That would make sense it if were actually true, but the empeg hasn't held its value over the years. Typical selling prices are now $250-£350, not $1000 or even £1500.
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#290671 - 25/11/2006 15:51
Re: You guys see this ridiculousness?
[Re: yuppy]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 25/12/2000
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Quote: There is much superior products out there today
I think that most of us would like it if that were true, but strongly feel that it is not.
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#290672 - 04/12/2006 13:44
Re: You guys see this ridiculousness?
[Re: tanstaafl.]
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journeyman
Registered: 31/05/2004
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Loc: Petaluma, CA (Bay Area)
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I saw this and actually took it upon myself to try and help this guy sell his empeg and he didn't like the truth.
Me: "i hope you realize that this player at MOST is worth 400-450. no one is going to pay $1500 unless they are misinformed. just thought i would let you know incase you had high hopes on selling the empeg for that much. just an f.y.i."
Him/Her: "Youre entitled to your opinion. I paid like 2500.00 for it new from Rio and upgraded the hard drive so maybe youre misinformed. Dont email me anymore with this crap."
I wasn't trying to be mean but i thought it was a little funny that this guy actually thinks it will sell high because he has 80gb of storage.
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#290673 - 04/12/2006 14:01
Re: You guys see this ridiculousness?
[Re: thirdeyevision]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 29/08/2000
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Loc: Canada
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I wasn't trying to be mean but i thought it was a little funny that this guy actually thinks it will sell high because he has 80gb of storage.
It's really none of our business how much somebody wants to ask for their players. And where there's a seller who wants to list one for thousands, there's probably a buyer out there who might someday make such an offer.
After all, it's still cheaper than a decent set of audio(-phile) cables!
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#290674 - 04/12/2006 17:17
Re: You guys see this ridiculousness?
[Re: mlord]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 13/02/2002
Posts: 3212
Loc: Portland, OR
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Quote: After all, it's still cheaper than a decent set of audio(-phile) cables!
You really think anyone who'd spend the money for "audiophile" quality cables would buy an mp3 player?
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#290675 - 05/12/2006 00:19
Re: You guys see this ridiculousness?
[Re: canuckInOR]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 19/09/2002
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Loc: East Coast, USA
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Ah, if you encode an MP3 high enough, it could be higher "bitrate" than a CD. Didn't someone say you could encode 640+ kbps?
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#290676 - 05/12/2006 01:58
Re: You guys see this ridiculousness?
[Re: FireFox31]
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enthusiast
Registered: 21/02/2006
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Actually .WAV files on the Empeg are 1411 kbps. They just take up a lot of space (20 to 77 MB per song, 40 MB on average).
Ross
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#290677 - 05/12/2006 13:09
Re: You guys see this ridiculousness?
[Re: Ross Wellington]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 13/01/2002
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Loc: Louisiana, USA
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Quote: Actually .WAV files on the Empeg are 1411 kbps. They just take up a lot of space (20 to 77 MB per song, 40 MB on average).
Ross
Yep, in case anyone was wondering, the bit rate of uncompressed digital audio is determined by word length (number of bits) x sample rate (samples per second) x number of channels. CD would be 16 x 44100 x 2 = 1,411,200 bits per second.
Stu
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#290678 - 17/01/2007 23:01
Re: You guys see this ridiculousness?
[Re: FireFox31]
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Of course, encoding to (lossy) mp3 at a bitrate above the source (CD 44.1k) is not very useful is it. I wonder how lossy it is at the sources bitrate; it encodes it in quite a different way, so there must be some losses, wonder how close it is - anyone?
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#290679 - 18/01/2007 14:04
Re: You guys see this ridiculousness?
[Re: toolman]
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carpal tunnel
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44.1kHz is the sample rate, not the bitrate. The bitrate, as Drakino just posted, is 1411.2kbps. But bitrate isn't an accurate descriptor of lossiness. Just look at all the studies done comparing reproduction quality between different codecs at the same bitrate, or even the comparisons for different mp3 encoders at the same bitrate.
The mp3 specification does not allow bitrates that even come close to the bitrate of a CD, much less over it. Even if it did, it wouldn't be called compression any more, and few people are looking to get the same data encoded in a bigger data set. If you wanted that, you'd just use the lossless WAV.
While CD-style PCM encoding is obviously losing data from the sound made in the air, that's not really the definition of "lossy" we're talking about. The notion of "lossy" is only relevant where "losslessness" is possible. Analog sounds, from vinyl to tape to the original sound coming out of someone's mouth, are impossible to reproduce losslessly, as there is no sample rate that matches the sample rate of the universe. People might argue that analog does a better job reproducing analog sounds than digital due to the fact that analog doesn't sample, but analog recordings almost always have a much higher noise floor. Of course, it may be that master recordings are made at a different sample rate. 48kHz is also a common sample rate, used often in DVD audio, for example. If the master was 48kHz, you might be able to measure the lossiness involved in transcoding to 44.1kHz, but that's some math I'm not interested in doing.
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#290681 - 29/01/2007 20:40
Re: You guys see this ridiculousness?
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Registered: 21/01/2002
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Guy quoted the FAQ in his listing, too. He knows what it's worth, he's just hoping for a sucker to sell it to.
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