[twmiller]

I love how everyone is chomping at the bits to get one of those iPods with the Wolfson DAC when a) most people can't hear the difference and b) even among people who can, they're probably not using headphones* that are good enough to take advantage of the difference.

* and/but/also c) even if they can hear the difference, and have a headset that can express the difference, they're probably not using these in a quiet enough environment where it matters.

[lkxijlewlf]

Woah there fella! That's an awful lot of assuming.

[twmiller]

It's really not. That was the concensus of many reviews when these things were new. I'm not (by any stretch) implying that DAC differences are 'audiophile snake oil'. There is a difference. It's just that the 'difference' is vastly overstated.

[digisign]

With hardware so cheap there's no reason to settle for lower quality.

[Dylan16807]

It's a single "most" and a two "probably"s. That doesn't seem out of line for a reasonable estimate to me.