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Sound Quality...iPad vs iTouch

I've been placing my iPod Touch (4th gen) on a dock that extracts the digital and sends it to my DAC and then listen to Pandora Radio thru my main system.

I read a review from someone who uses an iPhone,iPod and iPad the same way (with a like dock) and thought the sound was noticibly better from the iPad.

Anybody have any ideas why this "could" be true?

I have an iPad 3 now and will check this out hopefully this weekend and judge with my own ears. It's a little tough doing an a/b with Pandora because the next song may be better or worse in recording quality than the previous.

In the meantime, I'd appreciate anyones thoughts on why the digital stream would be better out of an iPad vs an iTouch. Better/faster processor???
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sonicbeauty
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I use both the iTouch and iPad with a Cambridge Audio DacMgic Plus and companion digital iD-100 dock.

Sound could be slightly better with the Pad, but very hard to tell.

Just hit the power button for the whole screen to go black (just as if it was turned off) while keeping the sounds alive.

I also use both with the special Bluetooth gizmo designed to work with the DacMagic Plus. Slight loss of fidelity, but huge gain in convinience as you can hold the iPod or Pad directly in your hands sitting from pretty mucb anywhere in your house and control both source and volume level as everything is ''Bluetoothed' to your main rig. Very cool.
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