New iMod for the iPod 5G: A Red Wine Audio/ALO Collaboration

[procreate]

Originally Posted by scrypt

4. Q: "I'm skeptical about the cable and the caps. How dare you announce this without explaining precisely how the cable will work."

A: Again, I'm only a writer. I asked questions about the cable, but I am not privy to detailed information as to how the cable is made, how it will work, or what options there might be for people who will need both RCA and miniplug configurations. Negative speculation is to this conversation what dystopian science fiction is to the present.

Did you feel my post was speculation and/or negative?

[nickknutson]

Nice work, scrypt. I wish I could put my thoughts to words, like you. Heck, I wish I could use a comma correctly!

Thank you for the announcement!

(I made sure to use a couple exclamation points for you! I crank my typing to 11!)

[TheMarchingMule]

Wow, I can't believe I just ran across this thread today.

My dreams have come true!

...Now I just have to wait for the price announcement. :stoic:

Thank you very much scrypt for this new report!

[Klarus]

Well! Guess I might just hang onto my iPod video for the time being...will be interested to hear reactions. ^__^

[cooperpwc]

Hah... I was thinking about giving my iPod Video away as part of an equipment consolidation. Not so fast, eh?

[zippy2001]

Thank goodness I found this post!

I just sent Vinnie payment on friday and was going to send my 4G 60GB iPod to Red Wine Audio on monday.

Now I need to find a way to buy a 5.5GB 80GB iPod to send to Vinnie. :evil:

Head-Fi is both a blessing and a curse :evil:

Oh my aching wallet....

[Manny Calavera]

Originally Posted by Genocide

this is definitely a great news for me, will be monitoring this project

Huge ditto on that !

Originally Posted by ckhirnigs113

Great news! I can't wait for impressions. This takes the Westone 3's place as my most anticipated product. -CK

Same here,this now takes first spot over a long list of other things I want...

Originally Posted by oicdn

To further push this point:

http://www.mobilewhack.com/reviews/t...ard_drive.html

The price has been knocked down considerably.
http://store.memorylabs.net/10lahdd1noha.html

That's still $250 for just the hard drive, and it's not even 120gb. But if you want to up the HD on your photo to 80gb, prepare to be iBroke:

http://cgi.ebay.com/TOSHIBA-MK8007GA...QQcmdZViewItem

That's the cheapest you can find it. So the ZIF connectors REALLY drop the price, but otherwise, that's a pretty hefty tag before you even get into buying the ipod and mod and cable....sheesh.

I want to see how this pans out. How many people are willing to buy a $1000 portable that was originally told to not be worth modding (4th gen was the only worth it...riiiiigggghhhht)?

Not slamming anybody but this is a bit rediculous. IMO, anybody that buys one is a fool, unless it sounds COMPLETELY and utterly better. There can be nothing subjective about it...

Someone is jealous,and acting and posting like a spoiled child... :etysmile:


I cannot wait to get one.I am ready to send my Black 5.5g 80Gb model off
for the surgery as soon as possible.

[D_4_Dog]

mixed feelings reading this thread while listening to my 4G imod and updating the music on my backup 4G photo....
somewhere in the background there's a faint "D'oh!"

[Kabeer]

Wow, if this turns out to have amazing sq....its possible my iriver h140 might have to go into retirement as a recording box!

Since the 80gb 5.5G has a great form factor and hdd capacity.

EDIT: lol sorry to put a hint of a downer on this current elation, but what happens if Apple do the inveitable in the next few months and releases a 6G ipod, but by a freak chance with a better DAC and larger hdd?

[rgbyhkr]

Originally Posted by Kabeer

Wow, if this turns out to have amazing sq....its possible my iriver h140 might have to go into retirement as a recording box!

Since the 80gb 5.5G has a great form factor and hdd capacity.

EDIT: lol sorry to put a hint of a downer on this current elation, but what happens if Apple do the inveitable in the next few months and releases a 6G ipod, but by a freak chance with a better DAC and larger hdd?

Well, the latter is not so much a what if but an absolute certainty. Many folks would argue that Apple is way overdue for an iPod update especially given the excitement about the iPhone's multi-touch interface. Gen 6 is coming, so it's just a question of when. Whether or not it uses yet another DAC and/or has even larger HDD sizes is anyone's guess. There's been a lot of talk about Apple going completely solid state, but larger SS HDD prices (even just 32GB) would seemingly make that tough to do.

I think you have to assume that regardless of what may or may not change in these 2 areas, Vinnie will probably be unlikely to apply what he's done with 5 and 5.5 generation units to a 6g. Why? Because we can probably assume that there will be a change either in form factor, internal layout, or some other change due to the expected larger touchscreen. So, we'll likely have what we have had for a while now. That is a mod available, but only for previous gen units. Users then have to decide for themselves if they are willing to tradeoff current gen features for better sound quality.

Jeff