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Better sound with your iPod or iPhone

To get a hifi sound quality from your iPod, here are recommendations :

- Get good EARPHONES: Shure in-ear earphones are well known for their very good quality. Etymotics has also very good reputation in earphones.

or good HEADHONES like Grado.

- a good quality head-earphone AMPLIFIER. Best of the best: RSA Tomahawk, a must in this domain. [...]

Make your Shure plug iPhone compatible

iPhone was launched with a recessed plug, preventing use of any standard jack. Anyway there is an easy solution:

Use a cutter to remove 2 mm of the flexible black plactic around a harder black plastic. Look at the pictures below for explanation.

iPhone Sound Quality

To test audio quality the important point is to use very high quality components to hear the difference. That means a high grade head or ear phone, a premium quality headphone amplifier and high quality dock using pure copper or silver wires for the cables that link the different active audio components. Don’t expect to [...]

iPhone Audio Line Out Dock – No sound !

iPhone gets 2 sorts of plugs to get audio out of it:

- audio jack plug (3.5mm) on the top of the iPhone body

- audio jack plug on the docking station which comes with the iPhone to synchronize it to a Mac or PC with dock connector

BUT, no sound through the line out dock (dock connector). [...]