$1,100.00 256GB Solid State iPod

Arnie · 1 Jan 2012 at 20:25

http://aloaudio.com/256gig-solid-state-imod.html

Mental.

Edrof · 1 Jan 2012 at 20:26

I'll take two, please Mr. Dude.

hux · 1 Jan 2012 at 20:29

It's an imodded ipod, they don't just swap the drive, they also rip out and replace the internals with better parts.

http://redwineaudio.com/imod

http://www.ualberta.ca/~jple/diyMod/

Sgt Tackleberry · 1 Jan 2012 at 20:32

looks good, so i will take one please

moon man · 1 Jan 2012 at 20:52

who wants to be stuck with the original dac for that price ? think i would maybe opt for the cypher labs algorhythm solo and piggy back that sq wise
pleased with my setup
sflo2 (twin wolfson dacs)
silver line out
neco soundlabs with opamp upgrade
denon d2000 or ultrasone hfi780
here wih my other halfs sansa clip zip 16gb (including micro sd) and px100 mk 2 (£5 from tesco ,deal of the century)

Shayper · 1 Jan 2012 at 20:54

Can they do this for iPhones?

gropingmantis · 1 Jan 2012 at 20:57

Sounds good to me the worst thing about the ipods I had was the HDD breaking after being in my pocket. Thats why my only remaining apple product is a 1st gen Shuffle. Yeah so its only 512Mb but its been through the wash 4 times and still works perfectly.

Deleted member 651465 · 1 Jan 2012 at 21:02

gropingmantis said:
Sounds good to me the worst thing about the ipods I had was the HDD breaking after being in my pocket. Thats why my only remaining apple product is a 1st gen Shuffle. Yeah so its only 512Mb but its been through the wash 4 times and still works perfectly.

Abused drive with moving parts, in failure shocker.

marc2003 · 1 Jan 2012 at 21:29

LOL at the $200 line out cables below.

gropingmantis · 1 Jan 2012 at 21:31

EVH said:
Abused drive with moving parts, in failure shocker.

Yeah but its a stupid idea putting a poor mechanical drive in a "portable" device. It WILL be in pockets/bags etc. People WILL take it running/cycling etc so to use rubbish mechanical drives is just dumb.

Deleted member 651465 · 1 Jan 2012 at 22:09

gropingmantis said:
Yeah but its a stupid idea putting a poor mechanical drive in a "portable" device. It WILL be in pockets/bags etc. People WILL take it running/cycling etc so to use rubbish mechanical drives is just dumb.

Not really. At the time, the 1.8 drive was the only solution available for reasonable money, if you wanted loads of storage.

The iPod was never marketed for use running etc, (as the shuffle or nano later were), so to call it dumb, just highlights your misuse / expectation that it should do what you want of it, rather than what it's built for.

G-MAN2004 · 1 Jan 2012 at 22:16

moon man said:
who wants to be stuck with the original dac for that price ? think i would maybe opt for the cypher labs algorhythm solo and piggy back that sq wise
pleased with my setup
sflo2 (twin wolfson dacs)
silver line out
neco soundlabs with opamp upgrade
denon d2000 or ultrasone hfi780
here wih my other halfs sansa clip zip 16gb (including micro sd) and px100 mk 2 (£5 from tesco ,deal of the century)
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I think the idea of them being portable goes out the window with that lot. I'll stick to my iPhone and earphones. I'm sure it's good enough as it is.

andy_mk3 · 1 Jan 2012 at 22:16

My 5th Gen ipod videohad been through a lot of abuse but the hard drive is about the only thing I've not replaced on it

gropingmantis · 1 Jan 2012 at 22:23

EVH said:
Not really. At the time, the 1.8 drive was the only solution available for reasonable money, if you wanted loads of storage.

The iPod was never marketed for use running etc, (as the shuffle or nano later were), so to call it dumb, just highlights your misuse / expectation that it should do what you want of it, rather than what it's built for.

What is the point then? May as well just buy a hard drive if you want all your music in a small space but never want to listen to it on the move.

Glaucus · 1 Jan 2012 at 22:25

On the move, is different to running. Which has repeated impact.

gropingmantis · 1 Jan 2012 at 22:26

Glaucus said:
On the move, is different to running. Which has repeated impact.

Sitting down in a chair is an impact that broke my classic (although could have been the straw that broke the camel's back). Why aren't more things more rugged?

Nitefly · 1 Jan 2012 at 22:29

That's not really that much money.

I bought this accessory earlier in the year for my iphone:

It simply plugs into the iPhone using a cable, sounds amazing and I can now use my iPhone to get to places as well, great little add-on!

Redman · 1 Jan 2012 at 22:29

gropingmantis said:
Sitting down in a chair is an impact that broke my classic (although could have been the straw that broke the camel's back). Why aren't more things more rugged?

If things are too rugged, the producing company goes out of business because it doesn't sell replacements, since they aren't required. Apple is a money making demon.

gropingmantis · 1 Jan 2012 at 22:32

Redman said:
If things are too rugged, the producing company goes out of business because it doesn't sell replacements, since they aren't required. Apple is a money making demon.

Not really. Sonim are doing well despite selling rugged phones with a very generous warranty. Ok they aren't as big as Apple but selling weak products to make money is a massive con.

RetiredGreyFox · 1 Jan 2012 at 22:32

moon man said:
who wants to be stuck with the original dac for that price ? think i would maybe opt for the cypher labs algorhythm solo and piggy back that sq wise
pleased with my setup
sflo2 (twin wolfson dacs)
silver line out
neco soundlabs with opamp upgrade
denon d2000 or ultrasone hfi780
here wih my other halfs sansa clip zip 16gb (including micro sd) and px100 mk 2 (£5 from tesco ,deal of the century)

Found a picture of moon man with his portable stereo -

$1,100.00 256GB Solid State iPod

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