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Flac files on an iPod?
Yes, but not with Apple OS.. You can replace Apple's OS within the iPod with a program called RockBox.http://www.rockbox.org/ I have not done this, but this is the option that I know... If you try it and brick your iPod it is not my fault. I have ... 
Cheap Blu Ray Player + DAC for hi fi ?
The emotiva DAC's volume control will result in loss of fidelity. They had initially promoted this as a no loss of resolution volume control, but they have since gone back and said that since the volume control is in the digital domain that you lo... 
Ripping SACD vs regular CD
Depending on your drive you can rip the cd layer of a hybrid sacd. I have ripped that exact disc. I have one drive that works and one that doesn't. In a case where your cd is old and the sacd is remastered it would be better to rip the remastered ... 
Ripping SACD vs regular CD
If you don't have a computer drive that reads the SACD layer then the only thing you can rip is the cd layer of hybrid SACD disks. Doubt there is any improvement there. To my knowledge there aren't SACD drives for computers. Please someone chime i... 
Upgrading from Rega Apollo to Rega Saturn CD??
I think that the difference between the Rega DAC and Rega Apollo-R is the number of Wolfson WM8742 chips in them. I believe that the new Apollo-R uses one chip and the outboard DAC uses 2 Chips in differential mode (like the Saturn uses).I would s...