Since you already have an iPod check this out:
http://www.redwineaudio.com/iMod.html
Vinnie modded my Photo iPod man what a difference it made. I use it
mainly in the car. Compared to stock it's night and day. It's also so
much better than my car CD player [Kenwood excelon with burr brown
Thanks m_l , a couple of surprises in there for me. First one is that
they have a wolfson DAC in the later generation ipods! Also I was
reminded there of the line out that's available through the proprietary
docking socket, which given the previous points might make a difference
to sound quality
gowger;332705 Wrote:
Crikey, fast reponse here!
Thanks for the interesting points folks.
I don't even know where the original headphones are for the ipod! They
were irrelevant. I'm using little sennheiser ones, they kind of hook
into your ear. They sound pretty good. I used to use a
CatBus;332694 Wrote:
Let me preface this by saying that you're very unlikely to get
SB3-quality audio from a portable. So just let this requirement go,
and your choices start looking better.
I'm a RockBox user myself, and I personally use an iAudio X5. For what
it is, the audio quality
jeebers;332855 Wrote:
I use Rockbox on an old iRiver H140 (upgraded to a 60GB drive), and the
sound quality is very good. It has an optical out if that floats your
boat. If you're happy without colour screens, don't mind it being a
bit on the chucky side etc than you can't go far wrong.
gowger;332685 Wrote:
I figured this would be one forum where people might know and care about
sound quality in portable digital music players.
I'm wondering if it's possible to get a sound quality as good as a
slimplayer from any portable music player, that supports flac?
I have an
I figured this would be one forum where people might know and care about
sound quality in portable digital music players.
I'm wondering if it's possible to get a sound quality as good as a
slimplayer from any portable music player, that supports flac?
I have an ipod, I didn't buy it by the way!
It is far more challenging to get good sound quality from a portable
device. A good power supply, DAC, and output stage require board space,
and packing everything close together makes issues like internal EMI
noise much harder to deal with. The designer has much fewer components
to choose from
Let me preface this by saying that you're very unlikely to get
SB3-quality audio from a portable. So just let this requirement go,
and your choices start looking better.
I'm a RockBox user myself, and I personally use an iAudio X5. For what
it is, the audio quality is quite good. I've also
Crikey, fast reponse here!
Thanks for the interesting points folks.
I don't even know where the original headphones are for the ipod! They
were irrelevant. I'm using little sennheiser ones, they kind of hook
into your ear. They sound pretty good. I used to use a big pair of
sennheisers but
My next suggestion would make the entire Audiophile forum burst into
flames, so thanks for posting in the General Discussion forum, for
everyone's sake.
I think that lack of detail you may be hearing is not from the file
format, DAC, EMI, headphone jack, or headphones. It's the wind (and
let's
seanadams;332691 Wrote:
It is far more challenging to get good sound quality from a portable
device. A good power supply, DAC, and output stage require board space,
and packing everything close together makes issues like internal EMI
noise much harder to deal with. The designer has much
This is an interesting thread as I have been thinking along these lines.
I spend a lot of time on planes and at airports. This means that I can
use my laptop most of the time to generate music. BUt the sound quality
from the soundcard is poor. I am considering a headphone amplifier (USB
type)
Cool so you mean I could literally give it sox on the dancefloor! :D
Didn't know sox could do that kind of stuff actually.
Of course the only place I hear the difference with the ipod is plugged
into a good system, but it'd be nice to have the SBs quality in a
portable way for playing through
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