Sound quality from new CD terrible

[jayready]

I just purchased the new GNR and AC/DC albums and they sound terrible on both my Iphone and my Shuffle. WHY?

[Cask]

I would suggest buying better earphones, the ones included with the iPhone are shuffle are really bad. Unless you bought the New Metallica album, that one sounds like crap wherever you hear it hehehe.

[bobb-mini]

I just purchased the new GNR and AC/DC albums and they sound terrible on both my Iphone and my Shuffle. WHY?
WHY ask us, ask the vendor. Ask for a refund.

A black&white issue. Am sure if u took the time to complaint, it it REAL bad and not just your imagination.

To sidestep the earsphones question, well just play it on your PC speakers duh, but am guessing too if earsphones u will be complaining about ALL songs and not just this particular one.

Of course too, I can't tell if u purchased MP3 directed, or u used a shaddy ripper on an actual CD.

[ReyZero]

Also, what format & bitrate are they at? Can't just start lashing out randomly without giving some information.
For all we know you have some 8 bit ripped songs with some headphones made from some company in the middle of no where.

[tcj]

I just purchased the new GNR and AC/DC albums and they sound terrible on both my Iphone and my Shuffle. WHY?
Not enough info. What are you listening via - headphones, speakers connected through Iphone and Shuffle, car audio system, computer speakers? What bitrate did you rip the CDs at? How old is your CD/DVD drive? What software are you using? Is your computer old? Is it perhaps overtaxed while ripping CDs? Describe the "terrible" nature of the sound. You've got to provide details.

My guess is, if both units sound bad, it's not the CDs or the units that are wrong, it's something you did - it's HIGHLY unlikely that both the Iphone and Shuffle are faulty in exactly the same way at exactly the same time, but it's very likely that two CDs that you just bought and ripped at the same time that both sound bad were ripped badly. Check this out: I've got a DVD drive that likes to slip into PIO mode. When it does that, and I don't realize it, and I try to do too many things at once, it both slows my ripping to a crawl and can sometimes result in bad rips. Once I delete the IDE channel from my device manager, let it reinstall, I'm back to normal again. Yes, I need a new computer - no, I don't have the money at the moment.

Can't complain about the sound of the GnR album - it's one of the better mastered CDs of the year, a real bright spot on the rough sonic terrain of the modern world, and a complete surprise in that respect.