Received my Wadia i170 transport today.

Got mine yesterday, and ran it for a few hours, and I am impressed. I cued up some music that I ripped to the iPod and went between my Cambridge Audio 340C and the iTransport/Keces Da-131 DAC and it sounded just as good. The remote sucks and it would be nice to be able to see the menu through the component video jacks, but other than that, its a nice piece

I guess it will sound as good as your DAC is. Something to think about. It takes two to Tango.

Thanks for the info. hows the analog output compare to the cdp you guys have? i got no DAC at the moment but considering the itransport as its ease of use than having to browse all the cd collection

I've been doing preliminary listening to my i170 over the past couple days, connected by both the digital and analong outputs to a B&K Ref50 processor for DAC. Milen007, to answer your question, it sounds better in my set-up when listening via the digital connection.

Other things to note as far as performance/features go is that the i170 has fixed level output, so the volume control on your iPod does not affect level (this is the case in both digital and analog connection). The click-wheel does not function while iPod is docked if you have an iPod Video when using the digital connection (I think the Nano may be the same case). iPod Classic is your best bet with the i170.

Overall, it appears and sounds to be a great product with little monetary investment ($350) and without having to get overly invested in PCs or music servers if you are not ready to go in that direction. I'm sure several post will be forthcoming, myself included after doing some critical A/B listening...it'll be interesting to hear what people have to say because it is difficult for people like us to admit a cheap product sounds close to our big ticket investments.....Steve

Alright, I've finally been able to sit down and listen. I'm running the Wadia into a benschmark Dac1 into a Threshold Fet 10E which feeds a Threshold 350E at the moment and NHT 3.3 speakers. I thought the sound was quite good, I directly compared an apple lossless ripped song with the same song on CD on my Theta Miles and could not tell much difference. The Theta had a slight, very slightly fuller sound. I wish I had ripped everything in wave format now!!!! My one problem that I'm having is the loss of the digital stream. It just stops producing music. Ipod continues to play, but no music. I have to re-dock. I have the current software on the ipod, which is a 160 classic, but just to make sure I reset the Wadia, reset factory settings on the ipod and am now waiting to finish syncing some music. Anyone else have this problem? I've emailed Wadia, but haven't receive a response.