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  1. I have the Headroom balanced desktop and Senn 650's. It sounds great but I don't use it much for the ipod because it's overkill. I normally just plug my $50 Senn PX100's into the ipod and the sound is nearly as good. Without a digital output from the ipod it's hard to justify much expense to squeeze the very best possible sound out of it. I have thought about grabbing the Bithead, which would allow me to use the digital output from my laptop and would probably improve the sound of my PX100's a little. But I wouldn't spend that kind of money just for the ipod. My other advice is that if you really want to sink some cash into a headphone amp for the ipod, get an amp with a volume control and take the output from the ipod's bottom connector, rather than the headphone jack. That will bypass the final amplification stage in the ipod.
  2. I agree with Ashley's perspective. I have also found that the quality of the recording and mastering is vastly more important than the media over which the music is played. But it's easy for us home listeners to focus on the media, simply because it's easy to understand and under our own control to change. For example, we "know" that a 24/192 DVD-A must sound better than a 16/44.1 CD because this has been proven in labs with test equipment. But we're talking about differences here that are minute compared to the quality of the recording, not to mention often impossible for humans to hear. Turning to equipment, I want to second mpmct's point about speakers/headphones and room being the most important factors we can control. I would include equalization as part of "room" with the caveat that humans generally don't prefer purely flat equalization so feel free to play with that. I've also heard significant differences when significantly increasing my amplifier power. For the record, I have NEVER heard a difference when switching interconnects.
  3. As a newbie to this forum, I wanted to post a few things I've learned about this. As a point of reference I have an ipod classic 80GB, and am running iTunes 7.7.1.11. I have discovered that I am able to import 24/96 .wav files into iTunes and convert them to Apple Lossless format at that same resolution. However, I cannot sync them to my ipod. But I can downconvert them to 24/48 .wav files, then convert to Apple Lossless and sync to my ipod fine. As mentioned earlier in this thread, I don't know whether the ipod is actually using all 24 of those bits. And even if so, it's questionable whether the electronics inside the ipod or the headphones we typically use with ipods are of sufficiently high quality to show the difference. But at least I'm glad to see that Apple has provided this capability in their file formats. This is useful when listening in iTunes on my PC today, and perhaps it portends some kind of "audiophile ipod" in the future.
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