ipad rigs

well, i can start you looking in the right direction for using your ipad as a source.

you'll need a transport, to acquire the digital signal from your device.

sure, the ipad can be connected to a usb dac via the "camera connection kit", but a dedicated transport will work more reliably, and will charge your ipad while playing.

look at these:

Pure i-20 digital dock

Cambridge iD100 digital dock

Onkyo ND-S1

as far as headphones...  you'll get much further by sifting through the various threads and clicking on the "head gear" section of the forum.

haven't heard either.

also - they are functionally a little different.

check out this Head-Fi TV episode...

How about using an Airport Express as a wireless connection for the iPad?  This will allow you to stream your music (losslessly) from the iPad to your DAC/listening rig, and the iPad won't have to be tethered to it, so you can walk around with it/use it as a remote in your listening chair.

well your niggle bone, tingling or not, is misinformed. if 'bits' go missing in a digital format, you tend to know about it. wireless network protocols are buffered, just as usb is

The fostex is excellent and would save you having to get an amp as well. I use it with the ipad as a semi portable setup. The fostex get's a better review than the algorythm on sq at headphonia. I also have another semi portable setup on the ipad which is excellent-ibassoPB2 into SR 71 B for balanced input and output. You'll have to decide whether you want to go balanced or not and if you're prepared to carry the extra box (and the extra expense), but I think you'll be very happy either way. I also use 24 96 flac files on the ipad with flac player (available on the itunes store) and this takes the setup to an even higher level.

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Originally Posted by muppet 

Thank you for your advise

 

can you tell if the likes fostex is a good idea or the algorytham

 

regards

karl

 

Neither iTunes or the iPad will play flac. Perhaps there is a third party app for the iPad, but I doubt it, and it'd be a compromise because the iPad has such optimized decoding for its supported file types (hence the phenomenal battery life when playing music). In any case, you can play ALAC files natively, and because it is also lossless, you can convert from FLAC with no change to the files. 

Fwiw, the Airport Express I suggested earlier uses ALAC as its streaming transport, and is proven to have bit-perfect output, making it an excellent audiophile choice, especially when connected to a high end DAC.