audio line out makes an ipod connector to RCA's cable that would give you the best sound

for the best sound, albeit at the price of less compression, use apple lossless. This should be essentially indistinguishable from the original CD. Also suggest using the cradle connetion out rather than the headphone to an amplifier like Ray Samuels Hornet and you should have something...

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It would be nice once the custom 3's are release to have someone compare them to the UE10's. At those prices one would like to have some feedback before making a decision.

they are much tighter than the hd600's were. They gradually get better with use.

once again if you have two different CD players and listen to a good recording you can here distinct differences. For intance listing to the ankle bell in the Jimmy Lee Robinson recording from APO with one CD player (and everything else equal) the bell sounded more hollow compared to another...

I used to think that there was not much difference in cables until I met a vendor who loaned me different cables and showed me you could actually tune the system with different cables. Unfortunate not many of us have access to someone who can give different cables to try. If you did you would...

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