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.