How to get the best quality sound from an iPod?

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Hi guys,

Want to try out a new hi-fi and I have a few flac audio files. I want to put them on my iPod and play them through a phono-3.5mm jack cable.

How do I get the most of the iPod in terms of playback quality?

 

[triggerthat]

Use uncompressed audio, it'll mean ripping all your CDs to .wav files but it's the only way to actually get a proper sound out of your iPod if you have a decent speaker system.

I've not used FLAC before, but the fact that it's compressed means that it's not lossless else it'd be the full file size instead of smaller. There's obviously something being taken out of it else that wouldn't be possible.

Flac is lossless. Downloaded a flac player and the output is lovely.