Quote Originally Posted by coreying View Post
I haven't seen a portable digital line out dock for the iCrud, but saying that 'the result is much better than any other player' is a bit silly - because if it's a digital line out then the player isn't doing any work anymore!
I don't think it's that easy to bypass the Ipods DAC however there may be one or two audiophile type docks around that could do it.

The line out docks i was talking about bypass the headphone jack which is fairly low quality. That in combination with amping the source give good results and drive my headphones well. I have the ZY Dock from headphonic.

Agree that its a shame that the other players didn't take off at the time when everyone had to have an ipod because it was cool. The iAudio player i had could support FLAC and the DAC was better, and sounded nice and warm.

FLAC should be the standard in lossless not an apple format. My whole collection is FLAC and I just convert to whatever portable format using dBpowerAMP music converter. I'm smart enough not to change over to apple exclusively as i don't like using forced formats or itunes, and not that many other players can play AAC anyway.

Foobar also sounds much better than itunes on a PC, as the windows kmixer stuffs the sound when using itunes.