Thats not a iPod Dock ...... This is a iPod Dock !
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Cripes! I'd love to have that on full blast when my neighbours are making noises in the middle of the night - true revenge!
Originally Posted by A321:
“Now if only they could improve the sound quality from an iPod...”
“Now if only they could improve the sound quality from an iPod...”
You can, trade it in for a Cowan audio player
Originally Posted by Baboo Yagu:
“10kW? Shame the audio quality of the iPod is so shite.”
“10kW? Shame the audio quality of the iPod is so shite.”
Some higher quality docks bypass the ipods DAC and use there own so the crap iPod audio will be bypasses also.
I suspect this massive dock would do he same !
Originally Posted by Shaiya:
“Brilliant thread title.”
“Brilliant thread title.”
was originally going to go with Thats no moon.....
Originally Posted by captainkremmen:
“You can, trade it in for a Cowan audio player”
“You can, trade it in for a Cowan audio player
”
Waaaaay ahead of you...
Originally Posted by late8:
“Some higher quality docks bypass the ipods DAC and use there own so the crap iPod audio will be bypasses also.
I suspect this massive dock would do he same !”
“Some higher quality docks bypass the ipods DAC and use there own so the crap iPod audio will be bypasses also.
I suspect this massive dock would do he same !”
It is not the DAC in the ipod that is the cause of the crap sound, it's the source which is compressed mp3 (or whatever codec they use).
Unless seriously high bit rates are used - well above those that most players can accomodate, the sound quality is compromised - not just with ipods but with every mp3 player.
Most people have cloth ears so believe the shite told to them (by Apple as well as others) that mp3's offer CD quality.
They don't !
Originally Posted by Sid Law:
“It is not the DAC in the ipod that is the cause of the crap sound, it's the source which is compressed mp3 (or whatever codec they use).
Unless seriously high bit rates are used - well above those that most players can accomodate, the sound quality is compromised - not just with ipods but with every mp3 player.
Most people have cloth ears so believe the shite told to them (by Apple as well as others) that mp3's offer CD quality.
They don't !”
“It is not the DAC in the ipod that is the cause of the crap sound, it's the source which is compressed mp3 (or whatever codec they use).
Unless seriously high bit rates are used - well above those that most players can accomodate, the sound quality is compromised - not just with ipods but with every mp3 player.
Most people have cloth ears so believe the shite told to them (by Apple as well as others) that mp3's offer CD quality.
They don't !”
It's a combination of such things.
With standard earphones the IPod does indeed sound well, just OK. The Cowan audio players, the Sony Walkmans and the Creative players all sound superior with their stock earphones and MP3 at the same bitrate. Plug in some decent earphones or headphones and the better quality of the other players becomes quite marked. Certainly higher bitrate MP3s sound better, but on the other players they sound even better again.
Originally Posted by Sid Law:
“It is not the DAC in the ipod that is the cause of the crap sound, it's the source which is compressed mp3 (or whatever codec they use).
Unless seriously high bit rates are used - well above those that most players can accomodate, the sound quality is compromised - not just with ipods but with every mp3 player.
Most people have cloth ears so believe the shite told to them (by Apple as well as others) that mp3's offer CD quality.
They don't !”
“It is not the DAC in the ipod that is the cause of the crap sound, it's the source which is compressed mp3 (or whatever codec they use).
Unless seriously high bit rates are used - well above those that most players can accomodate, the sound quality is compromised - not just with ipods but with every mp3 player.
Most people have cloth ears so believe the shite told to them (by Apple as well as others) that mp3's offer CD quality.
They don't !”
True - you wont get CD quality from MP3. You can use lossless on ipod which improves things.
It is however DAC dependant. The iPods analogue output is terrible in comparison to other players. Mix in headphone / hifi quality too and things can be worse.
even within the ipod range analogue audio quality varies.
Originally Posted by Radiomaniac:
“Cripes! I'd love to have that on full blast when my neighbours are making noises in the middle of the night - true revenge!”
“Cripes! I'd love to have that on full blast when my neighbours are making noises in the middle of the night - true revenge!”
I would actually plug that into my Macbook (if that was possible)
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