Best way to play i-pod

[M_BOARDMAN]

I know its not the purest way to play music but i love the i pods convienience.I have had several docking stations trouble is nothing has been loud enough. I just want to couple with an amplifier and speakers.What is the best way of doing this to get room filling sound and what would you recommend on a £500 budget.Thanks in advance

 

[markw]

Any of a billion receiver/speaker combinations out there.

 

[zhimbo]

markw's response is a little terse, but is essentially correct. Built-in ipod support, with a modern reciever, is a very common feature, and any reciever can at least accept an auxillary input from the player's headphone jack.

 

[Damn Noise!]

I have a Yamaha RX-V667 and it has an ipod dock you can get, nice thing about it is that everything is "on-screen" so its easy to pick your songs.
It also has a "enhancer" that descrambles the code to make sound much better and not so compressed. Good luck!

 

[jamfan]

If you have a itouch or iphone, or any bluetooth compatible device, and want to utilize the bluetooth capability, found an inexpensive add, that one could plug-n-play to current reciever.

Check out Partsexpress.com, they have a Bluetooth Module BT-1

Guess newbies can't post links....

 

[bikemig]

You can get good sound out of an ipod but not from the headphone out via a receiver and revealing speakers. There are better ways to do it. A receiver that allows a direct digital connection via usb should in theory be better. A well made dock using the dock connector gives you a line out and works better than the headphone amp. I'm listening to a radio right now (the cue acoustics radio) using the dock connector and I'm impressed with how good the sound is. If you opt for a dock, I'd check out the pure audio ipod dock (which is a British company I believe): i-20 - Hi-Fi Quality Dock for iPod/iPhone.