Seperates or a dock system like the B & W Zeppelin?

[admin_exported]

Hi,

I have a budget of £500 (max!) to buy a system to play my iPod through. I have no preference between a dock & seperates, am not concerned about looks or saving space. My only concern is getting the best sound I possibly can (as good as I can get from digital music anyway!) and sticking to my budget.

Any recommendations? Many thanks,

Morgan

 

[fatboyslimfast]

I would suggest a pair of Wharfedale 9.1 speakers, a Rotel RA-04 amp, Chord Chameleon Silverscreen cable and an Apple Universal Dock.

I believe you should be looking at around £400 for that lot.

However, the speakers should really go on stands, which will take £70 or so.

The other consideration is which iPod you have, and how you store your CD music onto it.

If you have an iPod with less than 40Gb, I would use AAC 256kbps (known as iTunes Plus in the import settings), for iPods with more, I would use Apple Lossless.

If you mainly download tracks, they will be in iTunes Plus format anyway, so no need to worry.

 

[idc]

Since you have the choice I would also say go the separates route. A dock system is great for limited space, practicality or as a second smaller system. Separates can be added to and upgraded.

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks, much appreciated! I'm definitley going to go the seperates route. My iPod is 80GB, my iTunes library is about 40GB, the majority imported or downloaded at good quality. There are a few that I'll probably look at reimporting when my new system highlights just how bad they are!

Thanks again for the advice.