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post #1 of 7
3/13/11 at 9:37pm
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A question about equipment. I love west coast jazz but hate how it sounds through iTunes and my Mac family of products. So far I have gotten an iPod dock line out connector, a pair of grado 325is headphones, and a cheap cmoy amp in a breath mint canister (ya, I know). But stuff actually does sound a lot better. My question is...what's next. I have been looking at nuforce icon 2 to get my dac cleaned up...but what else. Or is my approach too sloppy? The long and short is I want to listen to 1950-60 west coast jazz with as much accuracy, range, and stage as possible.

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post #2 of 7
3/14/11 at 6:26pm
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A question about equipment. I love west coast jazz but hate how it sounds through iTunes and my Mac family of products. So far I have gotten an iPod dock line out connector, a pair of grado 325is headphones, and a cheap cmoy amp in a breath mint canister (ya, I know). But stuff actually does sound a lot better. My question is...what's next. I have been looking at nuforce icon 2 to get my dac cleaned up...but what else. Or is my approach too sloppy? The long and short is I want to listen to 1950-60 west coast jazz with as much accuracy, range, and stage as possible.

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)You didn't post in the right forum...

 

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post #3 of 7
3/14/11 at 7:40pm
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Where should I?
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post #4 of 7
3/14/11 at 8:20pm
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Where should I?


Full size headphone forum. this is the members lounge

 

http://www.head-fi.org/forum/list/4

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post #5 of 7
3/18/11 at 10:19am

For wisdom, you must reside in the House of Tubes.

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post #6 of 7
3/18/11 at 11:51am

Wait, wait, wait...  Let's back up a bit here.

 

First, this thread is fine in the lounge for the time being.  When it starts to get some focus, the OP can start a new, more focused thread in the appropriate forum.

 

Quote: Earstohear
A question about equipment. I love west coast jazz but hate how it sounds through iTunes and my Mac family of products. So far I have gotten an iPod dock line out connector, a pair of grado 325is headphones, and a cheap cmoy amp in a breath mint canister (ya, I know). But stuff actually does sound a lot better. My question is...what's next. I have been looking at nuforce icon 2 to get my dac cleaned up...but what else. Or is my approach too sloppy? The long and short is I want to listen to 1950-60 west coast jazz with as much accuracy, range, and stage as possible.

Indulge my stupidity

Welcome to Head-Fi!

Few people have ears to hear, so I'm glad you do!

I've found the Mac to be a great platform to host my music collection, so you have a great platform.

There are many unanswered questions about your current situation that need to be known before we can intelligently proceed forward.

  1. How are your iTunes files encoded/ripped?
  2. At what resolution are they copied to your iPod?
  3. do you want to focus on improving sound from your iPod or Mac first?
  4. What, specifically do you hate about the sound you have now?

 

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post #7 of 7
3/18/11 at 2:41pm

Although I AM in full agreement with kwkarth  (dogface (love the avatar)) here, as Cyndi Lauper sings : "Money changes everything"...eg. "Sorry 'bout 'cha wallet" applies aptly ... (This one's ours) Bwahahaha ...

 

Do realize some recordings are doomed due to the lack of care at the moment of the initial event ...

 

- Though, incremental hardware improvements are a wonderful learning curve to experience ...

 

 

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