Is Apple tuning out audiophiles? or is Michael Hiltzik an idiot?

[deckeda]

Dumb article. His beef with the Classic is that it's not big enough or about to be EOL'd. But audiophiles don't try to put everything on their iPods---never could. They tend to be music lovers with larger libraries than most.

And Apple Lossless is as good as CD. It can hold a bit for bit copy.

There are solutions that bypass or interface with iTunes to overcome it's cluelessness about hires files. But the iPod is no worse today than it's been.