Well, if you get a 5th Gen iPod classic and perform the diyMod on it - or have someone else do it for you - you can also use a CF-SD adapter to replace the hard drive and get up to 256GB of storage.  A lot of people rate the Wolfson DAC as the best of all iPods made, so with some proper coupling...

I'm in San Antonio, and I'd love to come up and experience my first Head-Fi meet.  I could bring some of my retroMod iPods from RSF, loaded with ALAC and FLAC files for others to test.

I use a Weller WLC100, with a specific small tip that I got at a local electronics shop (called Altex, in the US).   I got my degree in Electrical Engineering, so I had a bit of practice at school doing soldering.  Also made it easier for me to understand the HPF built into the 3G mod.

I'm hosting a sale today at RetroSonicFidelity, for those of you that don't want to build the diyMods yourself.  I have a 3G touchwheel, a couple minis, and some standard (non-modded) minis.   I'll be doing another sale on Black Friday weekend, but I figured I'd let you folks know about...

Yep, this combo works fantastically well.  Song transfers are insanely fast - they actually even seem quicker than using a CF card by itself, which is quite puzzling to me.  Anyway, I'm going to keep using this combo for my iPods at RetroSonicFidelity.  I'll have this 3G up on the site later...

So far, so good!  I followed my own tutorial from earlier in this thread, and I was able to restore iPod OS to the 128GB Komputerbay SD card I got from Amazon.  I'll try to sync 30GB of music and see what the speeds are like, and I'll report back here (with pictures too, of course!)

I've just purchased a UHS-1 128GB SD card and a CF-SD adapter that allegedly supports UHS-1.  My number one complaint with SD cards in iPods is how slow they sync, so if this ameliorates that problem, this could be huge!  The card will be arriving in 2 days, and I'll be posting the iPod 3G I put...

Hi Danthuyer,   I used the guide from the "Collected diyMods" site to guide me through the mod.  For the high-pass filter, I chose a 100k ohm and a 100 ohm, to give me a high-pass right at about 20Hz.  If you have any desire to send frequencies below 20Hz to your source, you can change the...

Here are a couple of photos from the retroMod I performed on Albert's iPod 4G.            

If anyone is looking for a protective skin for the iPod 5G, I'd highly suggest getting a Best Skins Ever shield.   http://www.bestskinsever.com/media-players/apple/5g-video-ipod-total-body-skin?mode=list&   It's much cheaper than the Zagg skin, and the only difference is that it doesn't come...

Awesome work!  I love that clear housing.

One person did it with an iPod touch.  I don't see why it wouldn't work with any other iPod, as long as you solder the correct wires together.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaNC9FmJt2k

I just read your posts from a couple pages back - thanks for the helpful notes.  It looks like I could do that, based on the amount of space between a stripped CF card and the dock connector (see pic below), but it's such a tight fit that I'd rather stick to using the connections on the front of...

Aaahh, no wonder it was so difficult for me to try and solder the wires directly to the mini's dock.  I didn't remove the pins from the dock first.  Didn't even know you could!  Is it just a pressure connection?

I'm not seeing your soldering of the actual dock connector pins. Did you happen to take a photo of that?

Even better than that. I lifted pin 5's pad and bent the pin. I probably should have looked at how others have soldered directly to the dock as a guide first.

I just tried to wire the mini's output directly to the dock connector pins, and I destroyed one of my minis. Gonna stick with the suggested soldering points now.

Quote: I bought a lot of 36 of them to refurb and diyMod!

Quote: It absolutely is compact.  The 4.7uF caps I'm putting in barely fit when I strip the CF card of its casing (hope I'll never need the warranty!).   Although I fit these Elna caps in, and they have a 5mm diameter.  So with a short dimension of about 4mm, I could probably smush a...

I just took a look at one of my minis, and although the dock pins are exposed, it looks like wiring them to the other side of the board essentially puts you at the exact same spot.  Experiment?  Yes.  Fun?  Meeehhhh.    

I will try some of those.  I'm currently using a blue iPod mini that I haven't yet diyModded, and I wonder how the film caps would fit in that casing...

Thanks, DMinor!  I'm actually using Elna Slimic II's.  I read you stating others sound better, but since these are my first diyMods, to me they sound absolutely fantastic.  I've been toying with offering a few "special editions" with some crazy expensive Blackgates I might purchase on ebay from...

I just got one from Sparkfun for a car-specific cable I'm building, but this Qables looks much nicer.

I'm building quite a few of these mods over at RetroSonicFidelity, I'm calling them "retroMods".  Here are a couple photos of the iPod 3G and iPod minis I've been working on so far.             I'm doing my listening with an O2 headphone amp I built, and the...

As far as I've tested, just format the card FAT32 in an external reader, then follow all the steps I mentioned above.  Once you do that, you've got yourself a CF or SD modded iPod 3G!  You do have to be sure to get the right CF to SD adapter, if you choose to use SD.  Visit Tarkan's site...