Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
...iPods are the spawn of the devil. I have never heard such a tinny sounding cacophony...
I think you'd be surprised if you heard an iPod owned by an audiophile, with decent set-up an iPod can play very well indeed. Have a listen to one using lossless files and decent headphones and it'd give a Sony Walkman a big run for it's money, in fact it'd beat it hands down for playback stability. Also the output stage of the iPod has been improved immensely over the generations (a big jump in the 5th gen video versions) and the internal amplifiers have been beefed up to drive larger cans. If the iPod had a digital output I'd love to hook it up to my DAC and critically listen, I bet it would be very good indeed.