Woody, well stated! I was looking at this LOD stuff from too narrow of a perspective. I assumed most people would be connecting to a factory car stereo, tabletop speaker dock or mediocore home stereo. In that case they probably won't hear much difference. I can understand that if someone...

Quote: Originally Posted by Woody469 More midrange? and lower bass are significant changes. We've all tried headphones whereas the "next level up" in the line is only "slightly" better but that increase in performance (in this hobby of ours) could end up costing hundreds of dollars...

The AMS chip specs and the player specs will be different. The chip specs are from the chip connections and the player specs are from the jack and dock connections. There is additional circuitry between the chip and player connectors that will alter the specs some. Personally, I hear a slight...

Hi ClieOS! Wow, just caught this thread! Pretty cool thing you got going here. Don't add me to the list - I'm still running the original LO cable I built on my Fuze (not too fancy, as you know). Currently tied up modding a Klipsch SXT that docks the Fuze in the iPod well. I'll be following your...

To each their own! It was not mentioned that many people may have some form of hearing loss and use EQ to make up for it. My 50+ old ears are down overall and have lost some high frequency. I step up the highs a bit to get a better overall balanced sound. I also see many so called "audiofiles"...

"Current: Cowon D2 (I have given all the phones listening time on the Cowon to rule out any impact/bias the Sansas/HTA may have had) " Great comparison and writeup! Got news for you, the D2 is adding more bias to testing than the Sansa Clip will. This is due to the D2 not having a flat...

For those interested in using the Fuze LO Cable on the E200 series players. It will not work in the current configuration. I tested with my original lineout cable and no dice. The problem must be that pin 22 on the E200 series does not have the 1-3 volt needed to enable pin 7. When I have time...

ClieOS, Another fantastic job! Wow, that connector doesn't leave much room for anything! Just so you know, you're v2 drawing of the Griffin decoupler is correct, 220uF cap in series and 100k resistor in parallel for each channel.

Charging works fine with the pin 7 to 22 jump. If you modify an existing Sandisk cable with the jump and addin the lineout audio connections (pis 27,28, gnd) to a mini plug or RCA jacks, you do NOT loose any functionality of the original cable. You can disconnect or reconnect to a charger with...