iPod headphone to RCA jacks adapter cable


Wanting to use a first generation iPod Classic, with the highest resolution song recordings on my home stereo system and would like a recommendation for which iPod headphone to RCA jacks adapter cable to use.
sar67
For what you are asking...the best I've heard was a cable made for me using a teflon covered silver conductor but it was not day and night better than a standard one, just a little.

I think you would do much better with the Pure i20 that Sfar suggested. I use something similar to it for docking my iPod Touch and iPads to integrate with my stereo.

It's hard to imagine that the i20 at <100 would NOT be the way to go and at close to what the cable you seek might cost.
Instead, I highly recommend getting a Pure i20 digital ipod dock. It has a superb DAC that beats the DAC in the ipod. Only about $85 on Amazon. RCA analog and S/PDIF digital outs.

Steve N.
Empirical Audio
Hey Steve, A PureDigital i20 is on the way! Now, what kind of digital output cable should I use and to where does it go? Thanks for your help/ Mark
...and, in the mean time while I wait the the i20 stereo dock, shall I reupload the iTune songs with Apple's 'lossless encoding', and, if so, how? Appreciatively
Sar67- please explain what you mean by "re-uploading the iTune songs." In what format now are the songs you would be uploading? CDs, mp3, higher resolution downloads?

If the songs are already in mp3 format you won't gain anything by converting them to Apple lossless, they'll just be larger files that take up more room on your iPod but won't give you any better sonic quality. If you're re-ripping CDs into Apple lossless you'll get the same quality as CD at about half the file size, which is a good thing on a small iPod hard drive.