Jaska
Headphoneus Supremus
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When I bought my 5G iPod, I did so with the intention of running Rockbox on it. This was very shortly after the 5G iPod was released. I lived with it for short time, and then Apple updated iTunes and the iPod firmware making gapless playback available, so I ditched the battery-hogging Rockbox firmware and restored my iPod with the updated firmware from Apple and never looked back... until yesterday.
My iPod has seen very little use, mostly because I don't care to take it with me anywhere. I just use it at home sometimes while falling asleep and that's about it, and lately my Karma has taken over as my nightstand rig of choice since it seems to drive my ER-4S a bit better and I can just leave it in its dock without the neverending hassle of charging it via USB.
Well, yesterday I decided to see how far Rockbox had come along, so I installed it and dumped a nice assortment of my FLAC files and album art (in BMP format) onto it, and I'm pretty much blown away not only by the interface and audio features, but by the sound quality I'm getting out of my iPod. I wish I had two identical iPods so I could A/B the playback of lossless files, but that's impossible. It does seem pretty clear that not only is the sound quality mysteriously better (to my ears), but the iPod actually seems to drive the ER-4S better with the Rockbox firmware. I have no idea what might explain this, so I'll just keep enjoying my new toy.
My iPod has seen very little use, mostly because I don't care to take it with me anywhere. I just use it at home sometimes while falling asleep and that's about it, and lately my Karma has taken over as my nightstand rig of choice since it seems to drive my ER-4S a bit better and I can just leave it in its dock without the neverending hassle of charging it via USB.
Well, yesterday I decided to see how far Rockbox had come along, so I installed it and dumped a nice assortment of my FLAC files and album art (in BMP format) onto it, and I'm pretty much blown away not only by the interface and audio features, but by the sound quality I'm getting out of my iPod. I wish I had two identical iPods so I could A/B the playback of lossless files, but that's impossible. It does seem pretty clear that not only is the sound quality mysteriously better (to my ears), but the iPod actually seems to drive the ER-4S better with the Rockbox firmware. I have no idea what might explain this, so I'll just keep enjoying my new toy.