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My experiences with sound outputs on Apple products
Authored by: felixkunze on Jul 06, '07 08:44:02AM

I have had some varied experiences in this area and I've tried out various things.
I currently play my music via a Sony Stereo system. My speakers are quite good. My conclusion is as follows:
In 2004 I had my iBook and a 4th Generation 20GB iPod. The sound quality on both was the same, I never noticed any difference. Then I got myself a First Generation iPod shuffle (white plastic). I plugged that into my stereo and ta-dah... the sound quality was a lot better. I checked around a bit online and it seemed that the Shuffle's audio playback ability was better than my 1400 USD iBook.
Now I have the most recent iPod (80GB) and a 2006 iMac. Both seem to have similar sound quality although the iMac sometimes seems to do a little bit better.
Overall the looser in my opinion is the iBook but problems seem to have been sorted out in recent hardware.
I can say I've had a lot of trial and error on this subject, I listen to a lot of music and when you listen to certain songs on the same speaker system, on 2 different devices, without EQ or any other settings turned on, you can tell the difference between the various devices. But for low volume listening on a low quality stereo system, I don't think it makes a difference.



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