Hey Guys,
Just wanted to get everyones take on a few things.
I told myself I would never buy a iTouch until they have at least 64gigs. Reports of the 2nd generation iTouch's ipod pins being different than the normal ipod because of the internal speakers had me concerned. Which was true, the 2nd Gen iTouch needs a slightly more complicated pin wiring than a regular ipod. The LOD for the iPhone and iTouch I am making work as a plug and play cable. Photos coming soon as well as a stocked ALO iPhone and iTouch cable, and our new bamboo iPhone/iTouch docking stations.
First I bought a 32gig 2Gen iTouch last week. Its thinner than I thought it would be and very slick looking, more so than my iPhone. The apps, games and add ones from the iTunes store is pretty sweet. I find myself loading more tv shows, cartoons for my daughter (Oswald!) and movies than music, well almost. However I thought that 32gb would be useless for any decent audio reasonable files. ie I would not be able to fit anything worthwhile on it. I loaded 62 albums on it (apple lossless .ALAC files) with 3 movies Crouching Tiger, Matrix Rev., and Zoolander as well as the cartoons, a whole bunch of South Parks, Daily Show etc... Yet I still have 2.5 Gigs left. So I am pretty happy with what it will hold. Yes I wish it had a larger capacity. The cover flow and use of album art is real neat.
The sound quality is good, with the portable amp we are making (ALO Double M3 portable headphone amp) it sounds very very good. I have seen posts of people saying that a classic or regular ipods sound being the same as a iMod, and moaning about the iMod. This is simply untrue. Sure I have a reason to be un bias but I would not sit here and tell anyone something untrue. I can switch a iTouch or ipod out with a iMod and there is a marked difference in sound quality, so ? go figure. The debate is pretty much documented and I would not want to wast too much time (none really) on the topic of a iMod. Anyhow the iTouch is something I use often now as a ultra portable source when I do not want to use a amp, when I want to watch a TV show say in bed when I am being lazy, or waiting at the dentist office, stuck on a plane, its great. I really was and am surprised how much I really ended up enjoying the thing, humph! I bought it to test on some cables and found myself unable to be with out it!
I think the coolest (all be it low/mid fi) is the Pandora app, very cool. For many reasons but why I like it so much is its just such a great way to be turned on to new music. If your not familiar with Pandora
Pandora Radio - Listen to Free Internet Radio, Find New Music
Its by no means perfect, but very cool if you have a WiFi network
Now my main gripe, and tell me if anyone has this problem. Is that my ALAC files will often jump or skip, not all the time but enough to be annoying. Has anyone else had this problem?. This is not a problem with the files themselves as they are fine, its the iTouch as far as I can tell.
I will post some additional photos and pictures of ALOs new cable soon.
Cheers
Ken @ ALO
Just wanted to get everyones take on a few things.
I told myself I would never buy a iTouch until they have at least 64gigs. Reports of the 2nd generation iTouch's ipod pins being different than the normal ipod because of the internal speakers had me concerned. Which was true, the 2nd Gen iTouch needs a slightly more complicated pin wiring than a regular ipod. The LOD for the iPhone and iTouch I am making work as a plug and play cable. Photos coming soon as well as a stocked ALO iPhone and iTouch cable, and our new bamboo iPhone/iTouch docking stations.
First I bought a 32gig 2Gen iTouch last week. Its thinner than I thought it would be and very slick looking, more so than my iPhone. The apps, games and add ones from the iTunes store is pretty sweet. I find myself loading more tv shows, cartoons for my daughter (Oswald!) and movies than music, well almost. However I thought that 32gb would be useless for any decent audio reasonable files. ie I would not be able to fit anything worthwhile on it. I loaded 62 albums on it (apple lossless .ALAC files) with 3 movies Crouching Tiger, Matrix Rev., and Zoolander as well as the cartoons, a whole bunch of South Parks, Daily Show etc... Yet I still have 2.5 Gigs left. So I am pretty happy with what it will hold. Yes I wish it had a larger capacity. The cover flow and use of album art is real neat.
The sound quality is good, with the portable amp we are making (ALO Double M3 portable headphone amp) it sounds very very good. I have seen posts of people saying that a classic or regular ipods sound being the same as a iMod, and moaning about the iMod. This is simply untrue. Sure I have a reason to be un bias but I would not sit here and tell anyone something untrue. I can switch a iTouch or ipod out with a iMod and there is a marked difference in sound quality, so ? go figure. The debate is pretty much documented and I would not want to wast too much time (none really) on the topic of a iMod. Anyhow the iTouch is something I use often now as a ultra portable source when I do not want to use a amp, when I want to watch a TV show say in bed when I am being lazy, or waiting at the dentist office, stuck on a plane, its great. I really was and am surprised how much I really ended up enjoying the thing, humph! I bought it to test on some cables and found myself unable to be with out it!
I think the coolest (all be it low/mid fi) is the Pandora app, very cool. For many reasons but why I like it so much is its just such a great way to be turned on to new music. If your not familiar with Pandora
Pandora Radio - Listen to Free Internet Radio, Find New Music
Its by no means perfect, but very cool if you have a WiFi network
Now my main gripe, and tell me if anyone has this problem. Is that my ALAC files will often jump or skip, not all the time but enough to be annoying. Has anyone else had this problem?. This is not a problem with the files themselves as they are fine, its the iTouch as far as I can tell.
I will post some additional photos and pictures of ALOs new cable soon.
Cheers
Ken @ ALO
