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Originally Posted by Woody469  I'm not trying to be disrespectful but have you even listened to the Fuze using its LOD? I would bet the farm and the farm animals you haven't. I've been lucky enough to get my hands on what I feel is a superb LOD for the Fuze and the difference between using the HP Out and the LOD is literally night and day.
Not only that but I've been able to test it with all my portable amps and its actually been very revealing of each amp's "sonic signiature" For example, Ray Samuels himself suggests people "NOT" couple his amps to a digital device unless they are using a "quality LOD" and warns of the inferior connection users will suffer if they use the headphone out jack.
PS Before anyone runs out and does damage to their fuze with that rockbox thing just remember, THE FUZE LOD ALREADY WORKS WITH ITS PRESENT FIRMWARE. For gapless music I just use my Red Wine Audio modified ipod or as it is better known, my iMod.
Maybe I missed something here and I hope the insinuation I am addressing here is not the LOD/HP out debate. Thats pretty much a no-brainer so it must be the Sansa Fuze LOD vs HP Out debate? Feel free to enlighten me. Respectfully submitted.
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Excuse me, what part of "search the thread before you shoot off your mouth" were you having trouble with?
By the time the signal passes through the friction plug connection, the solder joints, the caps and resistors of your line out docking cable and then through the electronics of your portable amps, all you are hearing are the deficiencies of your portables. If you try listening with a M^3 or GS-1 with some 650s or 880s you will quickly realize that there is no noticeable difference between the LO signal and headphone jack signal.
SansaFix posted about this on the Fuze forum over a year ago. The bottom line was that the measurable differences were too small to be heard from good equipment, let alone portables and certainly far from "night and day".
What ever you have been hearing, or think you have been hearing is nothing more than the deficiencies in your portable rigs or more probably your imagination.
The line out from a Fuze is nothing like the line out from an ipod. An ipod can benefit from a line out, a Fuze does not need it because the chip sends the same signal to both the headphone jack and the line out.
Furthermore, unless you need rock concert volume levels, there is no reason to amp the Fuze at all.
USG
Edit: The last two guys who were talking like this were also selling LODs on the side and using the forum to promote their products to unsuspecting people. I hope you're not one of them.
