bigshot
Headphoneus Supremus
Someone could make a fortune if they designed a Baron Frankenstein dummy prop contraption with a simple iPod dock in it.
Guitar amps are a special case: you may want distortion as part of the sound, and you'll choose and adjust the appropriate amp. But a hi fi amp is the opposite - it's job is to recreate what the musician create rather than trying to make the Monkees sound the Velvet Underground or vice versa.
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Originally Posted by scuttle
Guitar amps are a special case: you may want distortion as part of the sound, and you'll choose and adjust the appropriate amp. But a hi fi amp is the opposite - it's job is to recreate what the musician create rather than trying to make the Monkees sound the Velvet Underground or vice versa.
That's what I said. Did you miss the rest of my post?
"There are a lot of tube headphone amps that sound superb, too, but I still would take solid state over them any day."
Yeah but guitar amps 'sound' that way because of the soft-clipping in tubes. In speaker/headphone amps there shouldn't be any clipping at normal levels.
It sounded like you put both in the same category, which they are not.
Quote from your blog: "The conversion was done by Audacity."
There might be the problem. Audacity has a poor, buggy noise shaped dither that does not work correctly with stereo audio, and adds about -80 dBFS (A-weighted) noise. In fact, I even recognize the spectrum of the Audacity noise on your graph. So, the noise floor is most likely not the fault of the iPod, or MP3 compression (you should not use simple THD, noise, etc. measurements to evaluate perceptual coding anyway), but that of Audacity.
Well what do you know? You think this will affect SQ thru the headphone out?
Apple releases iOS 6.1.4 for iPhone 5 with updated audio profile for speakerphone
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[size=1.3em]Apple on Thursday issued a new software update for iPhone 5 owners, adding an updated audio profile for speakerphone. The minor update is now available for download and install.[/size]
They all sound the same out of a line out dock.