Originally Posted by OGTL
I hear you.. after listening to my iPod lineout>amp all day, and I go home and hook my AlienDAC up to it, the difference is huge.
You kidding! There is no reason to use a DAC with an iPod, iPod doesn't have a optical (digital)-out, just a analog line-out.
That means that the internal DAC in your iPod isn't bypassed.