Interested if still available.

If you are using iTunes with Mac OS X Amara HiFi is very good.  If you are using Windows (which I'm not) I have heard that JRiver is excellent for sound and beats the pants off of Itunes for organization.

No matter what hardware you have don't forget that things will sound much better if you use lossless files.

Amarra has now come down considerably in price.  For $49 you can get Amara HiFi which does a very good job and definitely improves the sound compare with regular old Itunes.  It also alows the possibllity of import oversampled high bit rate FLACs into the iTunes library and playing them.  Well...

If you were not using an external dac, then the best ipods were the 5th generation which had a wolfson dac.  They sounded best.  Obviously, for right now in terms of maximum storage if you have uncompressed files the ipod classic has the most. I use an ipod classic hooked to a Fostex Hp-P1 which...

in itunes you can go to Window>show Equalizer which will give you several preset equalizations to try or you can customize your own.   Also there are several bitperfect players for the mac - puremusic and amara are the best known.  They definitely improve the sound and some will allow you to...