iPod 5g (Video)
March 11th, 2006 by George Tyshchenko Purchase it and support this site
General performance: Very good
| Frequency response (from 40 Hz to 15 kHz), dB: | +0.02, -0.09 | Excellent |
| Noise level, dB (A): | -101.3 | Excellent |
| Dynamic range, dB (A): | 91.2 | Very good |
| THD, %: | 0.0053 | Very good |
| IMD + Noise, %: | 0.0096 | Very good |
| Stereo crosstalk, dB: | -102.5 | Excellent |
| IMD at 10 kHz, %: | 0.013 | Very good |
You can view the full RightMark report here
May 17th, 2006 at 12:18 am
Quick question. Why did you only test from 40 Hz to 15kHz. I’d like to see how it does from the standard 20 Hz to 20 KHz. Other than that, looks great.
May 17th, 2006 at 7:45 am
Its actualy tested 20-20k as you can see from the chart, its only the table which shows 40-15k.
If you click on full report, you can read 20-20k data underneath the first chart.
November 28th, 2006 at 4:43 pm
Are you planning any tests with different headphones attached through a Y-cable?
People got some interesting results, see http://www.ant-audio.co.uk/Data/iPod_test2.htm
December 9th, 2006 at 12:55 am
All screen ipods are known to be a little weak in low frequencies when driving low impedance headphones. The only exception is the shuffle. I’ve tested quite a few ipods. Here is the latest 2G Nano going against a Sony NW-A1000 (excellent sound quality by the way, probably the best i’ve heard, Burr Brown PCM1772 DAC)
http://www.prohost.org/~hackie/audio/DAPS_16ohm.htm
Keep in mind the NW-A1000 was playing a 320kbps stereo mp3 since I have no idea how to get lossless on there vs the Nano that had the advantage of playing the WAV files for the test.
However all these horrid looking curves are really not so bad pretty much any 32ohm or higher headphones sound great with the ipod.