Ipod and the 990

Anyone having success using an Ipod hooked up to the other than RCA input?

Would upsample help its sound much?

I've hooked my iPod Nano to the tape input on a couple occasions. The results are not exactly stellar, which I've attributed mainly to the 990 doing its job - in the process revealing the limitations of lossy compression and iPod's headphone output. I've heard others say that using a docking station to connect the iPod gives better results because it bypasses the iPod's headphone output, but I never bought a docking station to test that out. Upsample probably won't do much good, since the damage has already been done before the signal reaches the 990. I used 7 Stereo mode when I did it, since it was serving solely as background music during a party.

I use my iPod with a docking station hooked via RCA into AUX input. I don't think you can hook up an iPod with a digital connection (optical or coax).

Everything I have on my iPod are MP3 recorded from my CD's at 224kbps and actually sounds pretty good. I use it almost every day for just general listening. Not quite CD quality (I have done side by side testing and can tell a difference) but still good.

As gonk said using a docking station is far superior to the headphone output.

If you're looking for a good time with home audio, rip your tunes to a lossless format like flac, save them on a NAS box or cheap PC with a big disk, and play them through a Squeezebox. It rocks! It's like owning your own radio station.

I second the Flac and Squeezebox suggestion. Since converting all of my collection I rarely use my cd player any more. Ipods are cute little toys that I suppose serve their pourpose, but the sound quality sucks. MP3's are inherently going to sound poor on a good system. The 990 can only reproduce as good a sound as it's source material. Garbage in, garbage out as they say.