The iPod cable(s) weakest link?

[Austin 3:16]

Here's something I don't understand: people pay big money for cables to transfer sound from their iPods to Cap Docks/DAPs/Amps, yet when data is tranferred from your computer to the iPod, it's done by a very low quality cable.

What's up with that? Why have super high quality cables for the transferring of sound out, but use a crap cable transferring the data in?

 

[jsmithepa]

Surely yer being sarcastic.

Computer-to-iPod is a DIGITAL transfer. Digital xfer are self-correcting through checksums/CRCs/re-transmits. That's the beauty of digital, u get a perfect copy every time.

U wanna buy an expensive digital cable, GO AHEAD.

 

[Austin 3:16]

But it's not done via optical, so I thought a better cable could make a difference.

 

[jsmithepa]

(See my sig)

Am sure there are lots of ppl swear by optical. Then there are the other more sensible like myself who thinks for short distance, copper digital is fine. My usd$1,500 B&K preamp has only RCA digital out.

At the risk of being redundant... Digital are '1s' and '0s', as long as the destination get the same 1&0 as the source, there is no degradation on the xfer.

The iPod's weakest link (everybody here knows I hope) is its DAC and paltry analog output stage.