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Neil Young: Steve Jobs and I were working on new iPod Singer tells technology conference he and the late Apple boss planned audiophile successor to iPod with high-resolution audio Sean Michaels · guardian.co.uk Read by 404 people Remove from timeline New adventures in hi-fi … Neil Young and Steve Jobs were working on audiophile iPod. Photograph: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images/Sipa Press/Rex Features Neil Young has claimed he was working with the late Apple boss Steve Jobs on a follow-up to the iPod. Young said he and Jobs were developing a new device for listening to "high-resolution audio", which would download content "while you're sleeping". "Steve Jobs was a pioneer of digital music, but when he went home he listened to vinyl," Young said during an interview at the D: Dive Into Media technology conference. He and Jobs were apparently both concerned with the dearth of high-quality listening formats for audiophiles, and the two men met to work on new hardware that could store the large music files Young prefers. Since Jobs's death in October, Young complained, there is "not much going on". Young is a notorious opponent of MP3s and other compressed music formats. He even criticises CDs, which he claims offer only 15% of the audio information contained on master recordings. "What everybody gets [on an MP3] is 5% of what we originally make in the studio," he said. "We live in the digital age, and unfortunately it's degrading our music, not improving." The 66-year-old singer called on his audience to improve standards for high-fidelity audio and new consumer-friendly playback devices. The main obstacle to better quality recordings is file size: audiophile-quality songs can take as long as 30 minutes to download, Young said, and current players can store no more than about 30 albums. "I have to believe if [Jobs] lived long enough he would have tried to do what I'm trying to do." While Young attacked the internet's effect on audio standards, he acknowledged its utility as a promotional tool. "I look at [the] internet as the new radio," he explained. "Radio [is] gone. Piracy is the new radio; it's how music gets around." Young is currently working on two new albums with his long-time on-off backing band Crazy Horse. He recently updated his website with an epic, 37-minute jam, thought to be taken from these sessions.

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No "e" in Santa Claus. Sorry, dumb pet peeve of mine.

Don't forget the Ultrapriced.

As if I don't have a hard enough time explaining why I hang out with a bunch of headphone geeks (and that I'm one of them):

This has prolly been posted here before, but... it's pretty amazing if you like orange bikes. http://www.youtube.c...amp%3bvq=medium

Here's another one of the human trumpet girl. Pretty amazing.

Ya, me too.

Well, except that 99% of all people here are out of touch with what's new in the $100-$200 market. Most people here have been in the hobby a long time, and many of the people here don't really listen to headphones all that often any more. When they do, they're listening to whatever they've chosen over time after a lot of trial and error. For most people here, that either means custom IEMs like the JH-13, or medium to high priced headphones. That's not to say you won't get a handful of good suggestions, it's just not a market that people here keep a close eye on at this point in their journey. Now, if you want to know about $100-$200 scotch, knives, or luggage, that's a different story.

I'd be tempted to try something from the new Phillips lineup as well. I've never really heard any $100-$200 headphones that have 'done it' for me, although many of them are pretty decent.

Hang in there Fitzie. Life has it's ups and downs. Come to Florida in March and drink heavily.

Willie Nelson in 1965.

Thought I was in the slow forum... sorry.

Ah, easy to forget how far South you are. Chicago is really the only decent choice for me. Grew up 100 miles SW from there right off of I-80. St. Louis is 4+ hours whereas Chicago is only 2.

Amazing WWII story. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETeB2JnpXiU

Happy birthday, Mo. You old fuck.

I used to think that too, but I've found that Midway is just as bad. But it's a different kind of bad. Not as much walking, so you get through quickly. But then you stand around for a half hour watching one employee at Enterprise/National/Dollar/whichever... trying to deal with a long line of customers. Plus, chances are you're dealing with Southwest which I'm not a big fan of. So the O'Hare/Midway debate is pretty much a "best price" proposition for me at this point.

^ Ya, different for sure, but also connected to the winter weather in Chicago. I've had issues getting in and out of O'Hare as well, but have never had to sleep in the airport as a result. I remember a couple of years ago getting out about 4 hours before they closed the place down.

Done!

Some of us never learn. I go back to Chicago every year at Christmas time (except now it's not until after Christmas) and come back with a miserable cold almost every time.

Well put, Ric. Agree with your points as well, and do think that's what she was hoping for, to have him drop his armor for a moment and quit pretending (in certain ways). But he was bound and determined to fight it out until the end. Thus, he was obviously being a complete ass by not letting her take control of the interview process.