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Upgrading Wadia 170i IDoc to new 171 IPod dock

I have owned for about a year now the first Wadia 170i IPod dock and the $280 ICAudio upgraded power supply and lastly am using the Kimber illuminations D60 cable going to my DAC, which is actually a Cambridge AZURE 840C CD player. my question is has anybody upgraded to the latest 171i IPod dock and was it worth it? My current setup using lossless files sounds pretty good, but not quite as good as a CD. So please, with my current configuration and your experience with the new dock, is it worth the investment - Thanks!
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acuscott
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I used the Wadia 170 with the full caboodle of musical fidelity x series - dac, psu, 10D, tone through my Muscial Fidelity A1008 integrated amp and it sounded good! Then I got the Krell KID, that used the iPod's dac and it absolutely flogged the Waida and MF set-up, day and night comparison, no contest.
Get the KID!, it already has a remote and it works too.
htsteve
38 posts
 
I have the 170 and never had an issue with it. My kids use there i pods and I use my I phone . I have had people over that are into audio and the can not tell the difference, You have to have a reference dac to bring it all out. When the family is out shopping I will go to pandora put in george gershwin crank it up and be amazed wow Steve
soccernut
6 posts
 
My Wadia 171i won't work with my new iPhone5 and I think I broke the pins on the removable dock. It's a junk.
tdownes111
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This may have come up before, but I just tested my Wadia 170i Transport using my iPhone 5 and iPhone 6 with Lightning connectors. I used the Apple 30-pin to Lightning adaptor. I was able to get digital signal output from the Wadia's SPDIF output without any difficulty. I was worried, because I lost my old iPod with its 30-pin connector. But all my music is still available... Even the remote works!
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b_limo
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thanks for reporting on the tdownes; I was actually wondering if that was going to work!
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