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Old 09-25-2009, 09:59 AM   #26
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Originally Posted by rodimus prime View Post
I dont know, there is a huge difference in sound between connecing the usb port of my zune, to using the headphone jack for playback, unless thats just the zune (which Ive felt has always been superior for music anyways). I got so mad at the usb failure that I started using the 3.5mm jack, and it sounds like $hit, so now I use CDs again, like Im in the 90's.
Interesting. Maybe your aux cable sucks? I'll try it with my Zune later. But yes, the Zune does reportedly have a better DAC than the iPod. There's really not much of a technical reason why the Aux coming from the Zune would be worse than the USB. The basic paths go as follows...

USB/Zune
Digital Compressed > PDIM. Analog > head unit

iPod (usb)
Digital uncompressed > PDIM. Analog > head unit

Analog (with pdim)
Analog > PDIM. Analog > head unit

Analog (no PDIM)
Analog > PDIM
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