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I'm good with having all of my files on my Macbook, iPhone, iPad, and iPod. Over 2000 photos, over 2000 videos, over 2000 music tracks, and hundreds of documents in PDF, DOC, TXT and other formats. I'm pretty well locked into Apple, but their late idiocy, er, make that myopia (don't mean to be disrespectful) has made 64 gb the limit on the iPhone, ditto iPad Mini and iPods. So my 90 gb of data has outgrown my devices, and all I can think is, I'd like to have the spare time to mount a campaign to explain to people how Apple has gone downhill since their one and only intelligent leader died. If they had an intelligent leader now, he wouldn't be making a new phone with a camera so inferior to the previous phone's camera (yes, it is), to name another blunder on top of the memory constraint.
Convenience ahead of sound quality? No - if I'm going to sit in one place for awhile I just connect the v-moda Verza DAC/headphone amp and a decent hi-fi headphone and I'm good for CD quality listening with WAV tracks I ripped bit-perfect from CDs, or converted from 96k downloads. For speaker listening, connecting powered speakers or a power amp and speakers is a snap, although that's not my normal situation. I have a Microstreamer DAC for the computer, so I can always play the original WAV or FLAC files in full resolution when desired. Being very small and compact, plus convenient yet ultra high quality is due mainly to the headphone, not the other small components. It's the loudspeakers and loudspeakers only that separate big from small, or convenient from inconvenient for most audiophiles. There is an argument for turntables there somewhere, but that's a fringe item - not mainstream audiophile - not yet anyway.