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Best sound quality??
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iPod with lossless content, Headroom Total Bithead, problem solved - very well solved, indeed. When used direct from your laptop, the Bithead's DAC will take over. When used from the iPod, you use the iPod DAC (not bad, actually) but a good interconnect helps (Cardas makes a nice one). Be sure you get a good seal on the phones, and all's well.

Happy Listening,

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"iPod with lossless content" - How do you do that? I'm completely new to these things and don't know how to achieve this (or what it even means, to be honest). I have an iPod Nano and would like to learn more about this.

Would appreciate any additional info.

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-Fekhten

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I'm still stuck in two channel stereophonic hell described by Dante.

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I'm not certain about the Nano version, but I think its only limitation (apart from less storage capacity) compared with other versions of the iPod is that the songs are only playable in random order. If that is the case, you have choices as to the extent to which the digital records transferred to it are compressed. If you choose to rip CD's to your computer hard drive in full CD format (Redbook/16-24) or a lossless compressed version therof, the music transferred to your iPod will be in the same format - good enough to support your quest for high quality sound coming out of the computer or the iPod. If your file consists of downloads from the iTunes Store or some other lossy compressed format, the money and effort you plan to spend on getting high quality sound out will largely, in my opinion, be wasted.

What kind of computer are you using to manage your music files now, and what is the source of the music stored on your computer?

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thanks for the advice, will check out interconnect options too. do you think it would be a bit of an over kill to have both(bithead amp & audiofire sound card) when i'm at my laptop? (hp2058ea).

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To rip in lossless, go to edit tab then click preferences, clik on advanced tab, then select importing. The importing using row gives you a choice formats to use, select apple lossless. It's only worth doing if your using decent headphones/earphones, soundcard or headphone amp as it's hungry on megabites. Over double I think?

Has anyone tried headphone amp by Simpl? (www.simpl.com) It's taylor made for the ipod market, but is it any good?

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I have come to really like my new $80 Behringer Firewire interface FCA 202. If I record at 24/96 and truncate back to redbook it sounds excellent. With a 1/4" headphone jack on the front with a good size vol knob it is a very nice listening device for sure. Behringer @ ZZounds

I just recorded solo vocal a piece I am doing at church and the sound was excellent, easily trumping my Echo Indio I/O card which is now back in the box.

Enjoy.

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