Quote: Originally Posted by warpdriver First, you should use the dock line-out once you get an amp, that will help the bass A LOT by itself. Have you thought of getting the Xin SuperMacro V3 amp? It has two switches: impedance boost switch gives the same effect as the P-S cable, and...

I recently got my 60 gig ipod and the er-4ps and like everyone else, absolutely love the 4ps.. my question is, what kind of difference does the p-s cord make? and how much does amping the er-4ps help the bass? I think my only qualm with these headphones is the bas... if I were to add.. say a...

my searches are coming up with non conclusive answers =\ it seems the iaudio x5 is one of the better, but dont know how it compares to the ipod (have heard good and bad for it) or the irivers etc..

Well, as the thread title states im looking for the best audio quality I can get out of a portable audio player (mp3, lossless, flac, whatever) im probably going to be using the er4ps or the er4s's with it (haven't decided on which I want to go with, but i'll probably ultimately want a...

Quote: Originally Posted by fr4c carrying the A900 in a case between classes? good luck with that. yeh yeh okay, so i've dropped using the a900 with the mp3 player anyway.. I think i've decided on the iriver, and i hope to be getting either the er-4p or the er-4s... thanks for...

can someone please tell me the difference between the ER-4P and the ER-4S? From what I gathered P is powered S is stereo? But does this mean the 4S just requires a much better amp to power them? So they would sound better in the end? Could someone please clear this up for me?

Quote: Originally Posted by bangraman Personally I would go for the iPod. But the only major player I haven't had is the Rio Karma. And that could really be better, who knows. But I thought I'd just mention something about the A900. You shouldn't be using them portably, not just...

Quote: Originally Posted by blessingx Are you adding the Karma to the list? With the best EQ, arguably you would get the best (ie closest to what you desire) sound. Also how do you get 320 VBR MP3s? 320 is the max most encoders can encode and nearly all players can play. what i...

Okay so I did a little search and couldn't find a comparison without digging deep into the pages... anyway my budgets $300 and heres what i've found... Apple 20gb ipod.. standard non-photo ipod $300 iriver h320 20gb mp3 player... its color, can record audio and display pictures... very...

ah, thanks everyone That answered exactly what I was looking for.. (and about the search, searched for a1000 but couldn't find any comparisons =\)

Okay, so the A900s are roughly $200 and the A1000s are roughly $370 the only difference i can see (through specs) is a 2 dB increase? Can anyone comment on how much better these are? Does it justify the $170 price increase?