Opinions wanted: Which has better SQ, the 7G iPod classic or the 4G iPod Touch?

If sound quality is your priority then forget ipods and buy a cowon or a sony

Typical Apple-hater.....but you're wrong.

4th-gen Touch holds its own against any Cowon or Sony. Sony players don't do gapless playback either, unless you load them with WAV files......

 

I haven't heard the Classic, but the Touch with the Equalizer and Sonicmax Pro apps is a great sounding device.

Actually i never owned any apple product because almost everything i have read about them where sound is concerned described them as performing poorly, i have never read anything but the opposite about sony and cowon and i have owned players made by both, my experience with them is nothing short of excellent sound quality

iPod touch or classic, then the other brands mentioned. And, I own all the brands mentioned. There is NOTHING inferior about the sq of an iPod. All quality brands of player sound equal. The eq and sound enhancements are what really make a difference. Throw EQu or Equalizer (on one of a few others nowadays) on a touch or iPhone and they're equal to ANY Cowon, Sony, Samsung, etc. And, the touch and iPhone are gapless as well. A Cowon also is gapless,...but I'd go iPod.

Now, FWIW, I find it funny that a person who has never had an Apple device is talking about the sq. hearing something sounds bad means nothing. Experience it or your opinion is worthless,...

That's a fair point which i accept and i wouldn't normally comment on something i had not experienced but in this case i have never read anything describing an ipod as being excellent when 

it came to sq, sony and cowon on the other hand have nothing but claims of excellent sq and i have owned both and agree completely.In the first post LaDolceVita states clearly that sq

is the most important thing, my opinion on sony and cowon and it seems the general belief is that they are the best names for it

 

Really,...if you've never heard an iPod you have no idea what your talking about. And if you browse throughout the forum you'll see many pro & con threads saying that ppl like or dislike the sq - that it's goodor bad. Jude, the owner of Head-Fi, uses an iPod for his portable rig. I do the same,...I own Cowon, Sony, Samsung, Apple, Sansa, etc players. The sq of an iPod is excellent. The only difference between all of them is a custom eq & proprietary sound enhancements.

Please, don't state the "I read somewhere" opinion as a fact - it shows you as having an opinion based on heresay,...it's useless. Try, then discuss, or leave yourself out of the conversation. Or, just say you like Sony and Cowon - but don't say an iPod has bad sq.

i´ve heard ipods. and mostly my opinion is that the bass is all over the place and they have a total inability to produce trable.

 

then again i might be wrong.

Depends on which iPods you've heard. Not every iPod over the years has been great sounding......but in the past year I've owned 4th-gen Touch and 4th-gen shuffle, and they both sound excellent...I believe the Classic has the same DAC as the 4th-gen Touch, the Cirrus Logic unit.

What i heard from other people , iPhone > iPad > iTouch > iPod classic > ipod nano/shuffle  , then the newer Generation beat the older Generation.

So the king of sound from ipod line is maybe iPhone 4s or iPad 3.

but i am not the fan of Apple , so i dont know the real answer before i have listened all models and generations.

what i recommend is using Ampli via line out.

and dont forget that apple never release iPod 7G, it`s just iPod 6G revision

Edited by a_tumiwa - 3/26/12 at 7:47pm

Out of all the iPods I own, only the iPod Video 5G and the iPod Nano 6G is the best sounding. I am don't really like the SQ on my iPod Touch 4G though its not too bad. However the best SQ DAP I own is the Sony A865 and the Samsung Galaxy player 4.0 with Voodoo Sound Plus and Player Pro app.

Edited by Artmuzz - 3/27/12 at 6:23am

My iPod 7G + AT-M50 combo sound very nice indeed.