Re: How to improve your Chipod audio/video quality for free
 

I'll tell you right now, you're looking through the wrong shrubbery. Freezing your headphones -will- help, but that doesn't mean "its only something to do with your headphones"! Anything you freeze will help your sound. But only doing the headphones is not going to have as much of an impact obviously. If you're nervous about wrecking your hardware, you shouldn't try it. I'm not, and I will repeat the fact that I have put many
players and every audio component you could imagine through the Big Freeze process, and I was -not- careful like Lattesurf. I never put anything in plastic bags, I never opened the players up to let them air dry, and I never even checked to see if they were turned off. I never had a problem (except once when I froze a chipod and needed to turn it on before it had completely thawed, and while it was still a little cold. The buttons weren't operating 100%, so I just left it thaw out a bit more).

Sure, try that. Experimentation is a fun way to learn about the process. If you do, be sure to let us know what you discovered.

I would have to respectfully disagree with you on that. I'm not crazy. But if wanting to improve your sound and getting more enjoyment out of the music is crazy, then I'm a raving lunatic! (And if you think this idea is crazy? You have -no- idea what crazy is, because its one of the most rational audio performance improvement ideas that I indulge in! At least with this idea, I can tell people who require rational-sounding explanations for everything... "Well it changes the crystalline structure in the metals that was deformed during the manufacturing process blah blah blah...)

Re: How to improve your Chipod audio/video quality for free
 

Until one has determined for themselves whether the experiment produces any changes, the "how" doesn't really matter...

Thanks for listening to my test trax. You're right that they are neither before or after recordings. There was however a change affected, but not that kind of change. I can hear differences bewteen the two, and I have a definite preference (although the differences are not of the same character as the freeze effect). But if no one else hears differences between them, then it doesn't really matter what the differences are.

That's correct, but the overall sound would have been a bit better still. had you included the headphones.

Re: How to improve your Chipod audio/video quality for free
 

I CALL BULLCRAP.

Taping paper / words to a physical device doesn't change scientific sound reproduction. At best, it can change one's PERCEPTION that its sounds better, but in the end it will never change what actually is.

Its like saying if a tree falls in a forest and you weren't there to see it fall, did it really fall? You're saying no. The rest of the scientific community says yes, because its just a fact.

As for 'freezing' the cheap mp3/mp4 players, I would agreed that freezing the player MIGHT work (not brave enough myself) because it has been proven in nascar engines that freezing the metal parts helps them last 5x-10x longer.

Re: How to improve your Chipod audio/video quality for free
 

Anyway...

Re: How to improve your Chipod audio/video quality for free
 

I froze my Dick and now my Girlfriend says it feels better and she can now hear me cumming!. :shock:

So now my ChiPods are in the freezer for my test's. :P

Re: How to improve your Chipod audio/video quality for free
 

loll best comment everr.

give michiganjfrog a break lol hes just trying to help us. i dont see any reason why it wouldnt work, ill chuck the mp4 in after i finish skinning it :D

My two chipods are in the freezer right now. I put them in a plastic bad because the freezer has a tendency to create massive amounts of ice cristals.

I take it that some of you never listened to music while waiting for the bus or walking home in -30c weather. I've done this with my Panasonic Shockwave cd player (the aluminum casing would get so cold I could barely touch it a few seconds) and with my Sony Minidisk player. Both never suffered from it and played flawlessly. The only drawback was that the LCD wouldn't work when cold.

To add to that, there are millions of electronic components being frozen and thawed everyday worldwide. CARS!! Yes the cd player in your car, the engine management computer, the cd changer, the navigation unit, the amps, etc. None of these suffer from being frozen and used in this state.

I can't say for sure that freezing electronics will make them sound better, but I can assure you that it will not cause damage.

Good arguments about stuff that's always getting frozen! Hadn't thought about any of that. Let us know what your findings are once your player has slow thawed.

lol, i get it

Well the players went thru "operation big freeze" succesfully! I reviewed both players here prior to the operation: http://www.mympxplayer.org/15-2gb-an...ew-vt5428.html

I gave them 6/10 for sound quality. After the freezing, the 1.5" unit would be a 8.5 to 9 out of 10. This impressive result is in part due to the "upgraded" isolation I used on the electronic components to get rid of the interference. The freezing process made the music more vivid even thru the sh*tty earphones it came with (which were also freezed).

The 1.8" unit sounds much better but isn't on par with my standards. The music is vivid and really crisp (better than the 1.5") but there's so much background interference from the player itself it's unbearable. Constant popping and buzzing. I tried to isolate it better to no avail. I'm still looking around for a fix.

As for the freezing itself, DO IT!!! It's free, little time consuming and well worth the effort.