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. [...]
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.
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 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). [...]