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Mini=>RCA with mp3?

post #1 of 11
3/4/04 at 4:28am
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Hey everyone, know that I have an amp, I was wondering if anyone could recommend a mini=>RCA that I can use to hook my iPod up to my PPA, since I have so many mp3s for now. I feel like since my source will be an iPod dock line out and mp3, there should be a sort of "barrier," that is, a point where it no longer pays to go beyond that point or I just begin to expose weaknesses.
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post #2 of 11
3/4/04 at 2:15pm
Email Adam and Nate over at zucable.com. Ask them to put up and ebay listing for a Zu Pivot mini>RCA of the appropriate length for you. They will post it up with a generous buy it now price considerably lower than thier list. Most people will agree that the pivots are an excellent cable.
-Mag
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post #3 of 11
3/4/04 at 2:49pm
i'm sellin my DIY one for about 35 shipped

it's bomb! but i've got an ART DIO now so i dont' need it.

pm me if you're interested
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post #4 of 11
3/4/04 at 3:33pm
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Wouldn't the Zu cables be overkill with mp3?
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post #5 of 11
3/4/04 at 3:44pm
Well, I guess it's really up to you, a 1.5m pivot off of ebay is only about $69. At least thats what it was when I got mine last summer. I dont think thats overkill really, unless you're listening to nothing but 128kb mp3.
-Mag
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post #6 of 11
3/4/04 at 3:46pm
*only*
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post #7 of 11
3/4/04 at 9:30pm
My local CompUSA had the Monster Cable MK series 400 Mini-to-RCA cable that works great.

Of course you are talking to a non-believer when it comes to cables.
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post #8 of 11
3/6/04 at 3:22am
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Originally posted by MagusG
Email Adam and Nate over at zucable.com. Ask them to put up and ebay listing for a Zu Pivot mini>RCA of the appropriate length for you. They will post it up with a generous buy it now price considerably lower than thier list. Most people will agree that the pivots are an excellent cable.
-Mag
My Zu Pivot is great for that very use, although I go Out of a Karma dock with the RCA and into a SuperDual with the mini for testing my FLAC files and the Dual.
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post #9 of 11
3/6/04 at 7:30am
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Hmm...I'll look into it and see what happens. Bear in mind, however, that not many of these mp3s are encoded in Lame, the vast majority I got from Napster, meaning 128kbps.
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post #10 of 11
3/7/04 at 3:03am
A Headphile ( www.headphile.com ) 1 meter mini-to-RCA in copper is $40, which, considering the source, is probably the right level of quality to be putting to this job. I've always found that, when I improve my audio signal path, not only do my 128 kbps mp3's sound better, but that I can enjoy lower kbps mp3s as well. It IS true that the better your audio path, the greater the difference between your highest and lowest quality sources. I find that it is also true that everything improves, it's just that the highest quality sources improve so much more than the lowest quality sources, making the difference greater. So, $40.00 put into a decent mini-to-RCA once will increase your enjoyment of your mp3s every time you listen to them with respect to, say, a $6.00 Radio Shack or Circuit City mini-to-RCA. I actually started with the $6 RS IC and heard the difference that the $40 IC made. Considering all of the money I put into the source, amp, and all of the music, AND considering the observed improvement that this incremental $40 made, it was EASILY worth it.
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post #11 of 11
3/8/04 at 6:43am
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Firstly, thanks to all for the response. I've been looking into it a bit more. I've been looking to Larry of Headphile and the people of Zu cable, though they've been less enthusiastic. I just don't want to approach the point where I buy a cable that too nice for the mp3s--such that those encoded at 128kbps sound terribly. Yet, I want something good for those of higher bitrates. I'm going to see if I can audition the Black Gold and the Standard in Silver or copper, as well as checking on the Zu cable again. I don't suppose anyone has further comparisons of these? Oh, does anyone have any experience with the Turq cables that fiddler makes? Thanks again!
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