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Alpine KCA-121b or KCA-420i?
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<blockquote data-quote="envengineer" data-source="post: 2439556" data-attributes="member: 571710"><p>Since sound quality is, "like", the most important factor to you, get the 420i so you have a line level output from your iPod. The KCA-121B would require you to have a 3.5mm to female rca cable and use your iPod's headphone output, which is a noisier path (unless you have a redwine modded iPod).</p><p></p><p>The 5th generation iPods have decent sound out of the headphone output, the 4th generation and before really need a line out to get good quality. Also remember that nothing you do on your iPod is going to be CD quality if it is compressed, it may sound good, but it won't be original quality unless it is lossless.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="envengineer, post: 2439556, member: 571710"] Since sound quality is, "like", the most important factor to you, get the 420i so you have a line level output from your iPod. The KCA-121B would require you to have a 3.5mm to female rca cable and use your iPod's headphone output, which is a noisier path (unless you have a redwine modded iPod). The 5th generation iPods have decent sound out of the headphone output, the 4th generation and before really need a line out to get good quality. Also remember that nothing you do on your iPod is going to be CD quality if it is compressed, it may sound good, but it won't be original quality unless it is lossless. [/QUOTE]
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