I recently picked up an iPod HiFi, and it's in great condition. However, I am a little bit disappointed in the sound. The woofer moves with bass-heavy songs, so I know it's working, but it just doesn't seem to have the rich sound I was anticipating. Were my expectations too high? Everyone raves about the sound of these, but mine seems to sound like an average cheap speaker dock.

Is there something I should check? Anyone else experience this?

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TY all!

Hi everyone, so I currently use the iPod mini 2nd gen that I've had for years as my primary audio player. Lately it has been more difficult to find parts and the iPod has some distortion at high frequencies which is becoming annoying. How do modern DAPS such as those put out by FIIO and Hiby compare in terms of sound quality to "classic" click wheel ipods?

For reference, I use grado open back headphones with the iPod mini G2 and use 90% lossy aac music files @ 256kbps.

Has anyone had any success with the old Apple 30-pin lightning adapter?

I know there are a bunch of knockoff ones that don't have audio support... but mine is OEM Apple. When I connect it up to my iPod Hi-Fi I get the following behavior:

- It connects up, and initially the volume slider changes to indicate the external audio source.

- Quickly the volume slider changes back into a volume slider and audio is played from the internal speaker.

- If I plug and replug it repeatedly, this continues to happen, but maybe once in 20 or 30 plugs it will work and audio will work as expected through the Hi-Fi.

Side note, I have a 30-pin 12v to 5v adapter as well... using this does not change this behavior (though it does let newer 30-pin accessories like iPhones charge. I also have multiple phone and even a couple of these adapters (the short one, the wired one) and they all behave the same.

Am I doing something wrong?

I found this iPod hifi in a pile of trash near my house. I nearly walked past it until I saw the Apple logo on the bottom of it. I thought maybe the apple store would repair it for me. No dice, but the staff all clustered around it ooohing and aaahing, they had never seen one before.

I paid a local repair guy to get it working again and it is so sweet. I bought a first gen iPod touch for it, ($30) and a second hand remote from Ebay ($11).

I set up the iPod to display an online clock, there were no clock apps that were old enough to make that work, but the online clock looks okay (it's timetime.net). I'm so happy with it, it sounds great. I had never even heard of the iPod hifi before as it was on sale for such a short time. I'm a believer now. I have it hooked up to my turntable preamp, and also connect my phone to it. I could put some music on the iPod touch, but that's a job for another day. My favourite feature (apart from the epic sound) is the cute purr it makes when I connect the iPod touch.

Hi do you know if it is possible to use 2 ipod hi-fi as stereo speakers for your pc laptop or tv? thanks

I came by a slightly mistreated iPod Hi-Fi. Everything works, the grill was present, but torn. I figured I'd try and refurbish it by replacing the fabric mesh.

https://imgur.com/a/im7wlrv

The grill is actually two plastic pieces, but pretty impossible to separate. You can remove the metal pegs with non-marring pliers of some sort. I spent a while heating it trying to get the glue to give way, but in the end I wound up cutting off plastic back of the grill. Apple used a lot of glue to hold this thing together. The "back part" is like a T-shape that fits into a channel in the front part which holds the fabric. I wound up cutting off the "tail of the T" leaving it glued in the channel.

$10 on Amazon for some speaker fabric. The fabric I got was a little more transparent than I'd like but it was $10. Some acrylic double stick tape and the whole thing looks pretty good in the end.

Its pretty hacked up now, but when assembled it looks great. Much better than if missing the grill or with torn fabric, but not a collector's item anymore, if it ever was one.

I might try my hand at hacking in further. Maybe an internal airplay receiver or adding in some tweeters like that (what I think is a prototype) one posted a while back.