jon parker
Headphoneus Supremus
I picked one of the THE 'audiophile' wolfson Dac chip ipods but wasn't hugely impressed, although had a lot of IEM's since then which I havent used on it (keep it for podcasts and audiobooks now! (What's that Grandad??)I agree with you there, just switching from my old windows laptop which shipped with Windows 7 to the Mac and no other changes to the set up and outputting into the DAC with both set ups the quality or maybe enjoyment went up a few notches.
I know it does not sound as good but it surpasses my admittedly low threshold easily so Apple as you say do a fantastic job.
I am at the point of My Red's are the perfect bluetooth set up, My PB1 i really enjoy from the MAC for general Youtube listening which obviously the quality on there is all over the place but the good sounds great and the bad sounds good which surprises me with the Planar, great synergy though, my Zenith i love out of the Mixer amplifier and the Aten loves the power of the 789 amplifier but i know the Elan would love it even more and then i could use the BTR5 as an Amp/DAC with the Aten.
Apple did a poor job with the chip in the ipod 6th gen which i think if i recall correctly is also a CS chip, all other ipods before the 6 had the Wolfson chip.
I think i mentioned before, I only found out recently my Uncle IS Wolfson - its his company !! o_0 I guess it runs in the family
Nighty night x