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Originally Posted by HeadphoneAddict
Well, I went back to my friend's 6G classic and compared my 5.5G and his again, but also to my Sony portable CD player with optical out through my iBasso D1 DAC/AMP.
The problem is that they both sound equally as bad, when compared to the DAC in the iBasso with a CD and optical out 
It seems that without the iBasso, the 5.5G sounded better with our live classical and jazz recordings, and the 6G sounded better with rock and hip/hop and electronic. But, only by a small margin. I could live with either if I didn't have anything better.
The MP3 we used in the iPods were 320kbps VBR files, so when I got home I tried the iRiver with optical out. It still beats the iPods. I didn't have time due to an asthma attack to listen to the iRiver headphone out. |
So you were using lossy files w/ the mp3 players and an uncompressed lossless wave on the CD player for comparison?