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Unboxing that media player for the first time

The hardest part is always that

Impenetrable plastic outer skin

Each item inside

Individually wrapped and padded

Cords twisty tied together

So perfectly

It takes so much work

To get to your new best friend

So many manuals

Spanish, French, Japanese

And oh yes, English!

As of now your friend is soulless

It’s time to fix that

Connect it into your computer

The screen illuminates for the first time

Driver successfully installed

Charging up for the first time

Loading all of your digital life onto it

This process seems like an eternity

Powering it up and playing with the interface

Amazed at the navigation

Screen looks amazing

But the second you push that play button

Smacked in the face with

Hissy treble

no bass

mids aren’t any better

After spending a few hundred dollars

Those bastards ended up skimped on your product

Damned white headphones

A Ferrari Enzo with a Honda Civic engine

It is simply amazing how some people live with it

And yet oh so sad, since they have no clue what they are missing

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This is a poem that I wrote for my creative writing class, I really liked it so just thought I would share it with all of you.  It was basically explaining how I feel about really expensive and nice players coming with poor quality headphones, seriously if you spend hundreds of dollars on a player, they could at least throw you some decent sounding headphones.  I've been spoiled, I use Sony MDR-EX90LP headphones with my 5.5gen ipod, and also my Sony NWZ-A816 (which actually came with decent headphones +1 for Sony).  I personally even think the Sony mp3 player has better sound quality, and has really good equalizers compared to the ipod, and I would definitely recommend it to anyone who needs a little cheap mp3 player for running or whatever.  I also spend quite a bit of money on my speaker sets for my apartment, high end altec lancing, and bose, and then the car is outfitted with the infinity perfect series speakers all around.  The white little ipod headphones never fit my ear, always falling out and not producing good enough sound quality for me to even want to use them once.  I would almost say that ipods should not come with headphones.  High quality audio is a drug, and once you have had a taste of it, everything else isn't even worth listening to.  I guess I am a bad influence, but I thought you all should know the truth.