50 gadget claims to clean the sound waves of MP3 Clari-Fi is a little passive $50 gadget which goes between your iPod and your headphones, and makes some huge claims about digital music: "This technology allows for real-time compression of digital audio, removing harmful digital artifacts and spikey-ness,... Clari-fis semiconductor was developed with custom silicon with the sole purpose of quasi-logarithmically compressing audio sources having earphone load impedances of 25 to 50?. The compression algorithm continuously limits digital artifact peaks." Theres a whole page of what looks to me like long words for the purpose of confusing customers, but Im not an expert. Can someone who understands sound technology better than me explain what this thing is, what its doing, and why we dont have them built into everything already? Heres a positive review that doesnt tell me anything, with some extremely snakey comments: "It allows �good� high frequencies to be heard and only...
