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Red Wine iMod still relevant?

post #1 of 9
12/2/11 at 7:47pm
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Somehow I never heard of the Red Wine iMod for iPods until this week.

 

Is this mod still considered a good upgrade? Or is there some other solution that does a better job of improving the iPod?

 

I use a 4G iPod, RSA Hornet amp, Westone 4s, Sennheiser HD650s. I have a pair of Westone ES5s on order as of this week.

 

Any advice?

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post #2 of 9
12/2/11 at 8:51pm

I think most people are going the clas or fostex hp-p1 route but those are more expensive options and idk if those devices work with the older ipods.

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post #3 of 9
12/2/11 at 9:31pm
The 5.5G iMod iPod if pair with highend AMPs then it shows more details with better control and bass than iPods(overall quite big difference).
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post #4 of 9
12/3/11 at 8:47am
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Originally Posted by ZARIM View Post

The 5.5G iMod iPod if pair with highend AMPs then it shows more details with better control and bass than iPods(overall quite big difference).



also you can also install rockbox on it, allowing ipod to play flac files and other formats

 

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post #5 of 9
12/3/11 at 8:51am
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Originally Posted by ZARIM View Post

The 5.5G iMod iPod if pair with highend AMPs then it shows more details with better control and bass than iPods(overall quite big difference).


This.

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post #6 of 9
12/3/11 at 9:46am

Dont understand why you guys are quoting a 5.5 when he has a 4g ipod. Yes doing a imod to the 4g would increase the audio quality quite a bit. 

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post #7 of 9
12/4/11 at 6:41pm
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Forgive my ignorance, but what's a clas?
 

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Originally Posted by deadhead12 View Post

I think most people are going the clas or fostex hp-p1 route but those are more expensive options and idk if those devices work with the older ipods.



 

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post #8 of 9
12/4/11 at 6:52pm
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Never  mind, I just figured out it's the Solo.

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post #9 of 9
12/4/11 at 6:53pm

The Cypher Labs Algorhythm Solo. That and the Fostex HP-P1 extract a digital signal from modern iPods and then use better DACs to convert it to analogue. The CLAS requires an additional headphone amp to be connected, the HP-P1 has a built in amp. IMO while you take a storage hit (the biggest iPod is the 64GB Touch), unless you're touch-screen phobic the iMod is getting on a bit and there's far more options for high-end portables these days. A few years back there was less competition on the market.

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