Iriver IHP120 sound quality - wow.

[MrFaust]

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Originally Posted by chat7 /img/forum/go_quote.gif what theme do you use on your player? It's very nice. I want to try.

zezayer theme
but i also go to general settings, display, LCD settings, LCD Mode, Inverse

I actually did this because if I get my iHP-120 into a venue, I don't want the LCD to be too bright to be spotted.

 

[greenhorn]

Interesting... maybe I was so surprised by the quality difference between the headphone outputs of the iPod and the Iriver that I tended to consider the further improvement brought by the amp to the Iriver as relatively neglectible... I'll try again

 

[Packgrog]

Never tried the headphone out of an iPoo. But yeah, an amp with the H120 is definitely worthwhile. Not to slag the H120, either. I *LOVE* the thing. But it has some weaknesses, which thankfully can be nicely rectified.

 

[wolfen68]

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Originally Posted by Bob ♫ /img/forum/go_quote.gif But I thought you had to run the optical out signal *through* a DAC. How can you prefer an optical signal *to* a DAC? (I would imagine that an optical signal is just light signals that specify 0s and 1s.)

How I worded it would be technically correct as the data goes "to" the DAC (not "through" as the data is actually intercepted and converted to analog)...then it goes "through" an amp.

I didn't elaborate further as this is a pretty knowledgeable audience here.