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post #16 of 27
5/9/09 at 2:34pm

no, this is the most expensive ipod dock

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post #17 of 27
5/9/09 at 4:16pm
rofl
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post #18 of 27
5/9/09 at 4:32pm
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Originally Posted by iriverdude View Post
What's the point of everyone saying everything is great? I'm pointing just how daft the design is. If it had a couple of HD's say 2x1TB, with a ipod dock, and you can copy your ipod music to the internal HD and play from that, with no need for ipod, and it comes with a 2 way touchscreen remote like the Sonos, it'll be a good design. What exactly is the point of using a DAP as a source? Even if you fit 240GB HD into a ipod it's far less than even a basic computer server or NAS. edit with a system of restoring, backing up to/fro from the Ipod, and choosing what type should be on the ipod- say on the HD you have entire collection as 1.6TB lossless, you can copy across 15 albums as lossy mp3/aac. Or copy new albums from ipod lossless to the unit's HD.

Really it's like trying to patch up a diesel to do formula 1 racing. Just buy a F1 car in the first place.

For the same price you could buy Request media box and the server, with change to spare for quality 2 way RF remote.
I know. For 12k, I'm expecting a lot more than just this, regardless of sound quality.
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post #19 of 27
5/9/09 at 5:55pm
And even Requests are a rip off. To go from a 250GB to 750GB storage is something like a extra £2500. rofl having a laugh mate? (I would say to Request salesman)
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post #20 of 27
5/9/09 at 7:33pm
And if they change the pin out on the connector, or the connector?
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post #21 of 27
5/10/09 at 3:07am
LOL; because it has ipod input as ONE option you guys are treating it like thats the ONLY input. I guess no-one noticed that it has AES balanced digital inputs as well. if you were to actually read the specs instead of just looking at it, you would notice that you can use a modified ipod with a wireless digital a2dp transmitter; one would assume that you could fit this to any ipod past and future. i'm not saying this is worth the money, but most critisism levelled here is meaningless. its not designed as a music server, its a high end dac that also happens to have a digital ipod dock. use it with a decent laptop or desktop computer as transport and you could use a terrabyte raid as your storage; sure this makes the ipod as source part kinda meaningless, but could be kinda cool with the wireless option considering the ipod IS the remote. SQ of a2dp is actually very good, although not as good as AES. also with a PC as transport you can configure any kind of remote you like
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post #22 of 27
5/10/09 at 4:44am
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LOL; because it has ipod input as ONE option you guys are treating it like thats the ONLY input. I guess no-one noticed that it has AES balanced digital inputs as well. if you were to actually read the specs instead of just looking at it, you would notice that you can use a modified ipod with a wireless digital a2dp transmitter; one would assume that you could fit this to any ipod past and future. i'm not saying this is worth the money, but most critisism levelled here is meaningless. its not designed as a music server, its a high end dac that also happens to have a digital ipod dock. use it with a decent laptop or desktop computer as transport and you could use a terrabyte raid as your storage; sure this makes the ipod as source part kinda meaningless, but could be kinda cool with the wireless option considering the ipod IS the remote. SQ of a2dp is actually very good, although not as good as AES. also with a PC as transport you can configure any kind of remote you like
What I said in post #5
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post #23 of 27
5/10/09 at 5:14am
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Originally Posted by qusp View Post
LOL; because it has ipod input as ONE option you guys are treating it like thats the ONLY input. I guess no-one noticed that it has AES balanced digital inputs as well. if you were to actually read the specs instead of just looking at it, you would notice that you can use a modified ipod with a wireless digital a2dp transmitter; one would assume that you could fit this to any ipod past and future. i'm not saying this is worth the money, but most critisism levelled here is meaningless. its not designed as a music server, its a high end dac that also happens to have a digital ipod dock. use it with a decent laptop or desktop computer as transport and you could use a terrabyte raid as your storage; sure this makes the ipod as source part kinda meaningless, but could be kinda cool with the wireless option considering the ipod IS the remote. SQ of a2dp is actually very good, although not as good as AES. also with a PC as transport you can configure any kind of remote you like
Exactly!
Its so much more than an iPod dock, as it has (un)balanced inputs and outputs . Making a stunning DAC for your computer or other digital (non-iPod) media player.
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post #24 of 27
5/10/09 at 5:55am
Yeah, how many more features do you need from a DAC? This thing is pretty loaded...

Hook it up to your computer or cd transport through any of the inputs, and you have as much storage as you have digital music.

If I were to criticize anything, I'd say it has too MANY features. The Ipod part and Bluetooth part seem fairly useless.

And please don't say it's overpriced unless you:
A. heard it
or B. understand DAC design and know what went into this Chord.

Edit: I will admit it is pricey, and the fancy casework and weird Ipod features are surely part of it.
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post #25 of 27
5/10/09 at 8:58am
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What I said in post #5
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Originally Posted by Krmathis
Exactly!
Its so much more than an iPod dock, as it has (un)balanced inputs and outputs . Making a stunning DAC for your computer or other digital (non-iPod) media player.
I know YOU 2 did but even after that, the pointless comments rained on seemingly unaware of all this. I even think the a2dp is great as this means that if you have your house wired for sound; you could actually wirelessly 'log on' to your dac from any room in the house and stream music from there or from a central repository and a2dp actually sounds very good, not at all like regular gen1 bluetooth. I think it all comes down to the quality of the DAC, which no doubt is superb if chord have anything to do with it. its funny, put an ipod dock in anything and the anti apple pundits come out of the woodwork and blindly sling mud.

again, probably overpriced considering all the CNC and bits that may or may not be used, but none of us have heard it to make any comment on whether the dac itself is worth the money and likely none of us ever will. some interesting technology packed in there though, I have to give them that.
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post #26 of 27
5/10/09 at 9:04am
Still daft design, if you are into Hi-Fi you'll already have a Chord DAC. So a dock + Apple Mac built into one unit is far better design, with digital out to external DAC.

Nothing to do with anti-Apple, but if iriver made a £12,000 high end dock I'd want more than connector and a DAC. In fact I already have two high end DAC's so I'd just want digital out- I wouldn't use the DAC in the dock. If it had a synching system that'll be far more useful- I wouldn't need to use a computer and manually prat around with foobar.

And coming from high-end this is what users want- being they buy high end sound servers, and not a home made HTPC (like I've done) and not just a £12K dock.
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post #27 of 27
6/27/09 at 6:10am
Looks like some piece of chinese kitsch. Too bad, after the DAC64 and especially the black QBD76, those were / are works of art ...
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