| Why would you need an iPod? Well it took me a while to succumb, to be honest I could not see myself walking around with ear phones welded to the side of my head; until that is I got bored on a long plane flight and tried one. Then I realised that the iPod could hold voice (e.g. a recorded radio programme) as well as music and that it's capacity (with 20Mb) is huge; it can literally hold thousands of tracks, days of music. In fact it can hold more than my entire collection of CDs.
Now it is a bit of a chore to load all your CDs but having done it why waste all that effort? Why not connect your iPod to your stereo system, Radio or whatever and forget using CDs? A good idea it seemed until I tried it. My first effort was disappointing as I made the mistake of connecting via the iPod ear phone socket. The problem as I subsequently discovered is that you cannot get "clean sound" from the ear phone socket. Connected in this manner the iPod proved vastly inferior to the original CD and that was even trying a range of connections on the back of my amp and gold connectors.
The answer dawned on me after a bit of research. You can get clean sound from the bottom end i.e. the dock connector. All you need is a dock with a line out socket. They are easy to come by and cost from between £15 to £25 depending on what and where you buy (try blueunplugged.com).
Output via the dock connector is clean and undistorted and is truly stunning when compared to using the phone socket. OK on a one to one with a CD it is not going to win but the difference is marginal.
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