4451 Belleview Ave Hotrod Your iPod®!
The world's most convenient way to listen to music is not the highest quality,
but we have ways to make it better!
We enjoy the simplicity of use of the iPod® and other MP3 players, but just don't like the fidelity that they are all set to default to. When they are touted as able to hold thousands of songs, that usually indicates the lowest quality sound, or bitrate. The lower the bitrate, the worse the sound. We have investigated many options, and can help you get the best out of your portable music player.
Cables
Once we show you how to load your music in a higher bitrate you'll want to get more sound out of it. The first step will be to get a nice cable to connect it to your stereo. We offer a selection of cables to hook the iPod® to your stereo like these from Kimber Cable and Ultralink.
Headphones
When you are using your portable music player to actually play on the road, or jogging, or exercising, or just sitting out on the hammock, you will need some good headphones to really enjoy it. We feature the wonderful headphones from Grado, of Brooklyn, NY, who make models like this...
Docking Stations
When you want to make the iPod® sound even better through your system, the first step is to load the music in a higher resolution format. Don't use the default iTunes quality, which is very compressed. Use lossless, or even better FLAC or WAV files, which do take more space than the standard iTunes files. Once you have the music on the iPod® in a better format you will want to get it into your system via a device like this one from NAD.
Sonos
Listen to your favorite music anywhere in your house. Choose from music stored on your computer, internet radio stations, music services like Pandora, and control them all with a cool, wireless remote or your iPhone® or iPod Touch®.
Perfection?
If you happen to be a perfectionist and want the highest quality from your digital music you need to look at this amazing British invention the Chordette Gem.
This requires a little more computer savvy person since you need an interface to control the music you are playing. There are some great free ones like these:
These will allow you to control all your music and are compatible with the higher quality formats like FLAC, WAV and ALAC.
HD Music Sources
There are even sites to download higher quality music files like these.
The Good News
The good news is that this can start out cheaply, or go as high priced and high quality as you want.
Kimber iPod® cable $90.00
Grado iGrado headphones $49.00
Grado SR60i $79.00
NAD iPD-2 dock $159.00
Slim Devices Squeezebox Duet $399.00
Chordette Gem $895.00
Please contact us for even more detailed information and suggestions.
iPod is a registered trademark of Apple Inc.