HD music downloads to iPod?


I am using an ipod classic with a wadia i170 transport and a music hall dac 25.2 dac. I have all my cds on the ipod in aiff and it sounds great; but i've been reading about on line downloads of 96/24, 88/24 and even 192/24.
My question is is there any way to get these high rez recordings onto my ipod? From what i've read on the subject there isn't; but maybe someone here knows how.

thanks,
roger
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Showing 2 responses by tobias

It's true, you can't. The iPod won't play anything over 16/44.1. iTunes, on the other hand, will play anything up to 24/192 IME, as long as you have an external DAC that can also go up that high.

That said, I have not tried loading a hi-res file onto an iPod, then connecting the iPod to a dock like the PURE i-20 and the dock's device to a 24/192 DAC. Maybe someone else here has tried that.
Even compressed into a FLAC, 242 MB seems low for a 16/44 file which is a 1,190 MB FLAC at 24/96.

To take an example from my own hard disc, Bucky Pizzarelli's Swing Live album is 1.14 GB at 24/96 and 655 MB at 16/44.1. Those are both AIF.

Sfar's point being, of course, excellent.