Is the USB connection on this receiver going to give me CD quality sound from the iPod? I have a 20 year old receiver and ipod sound is terrible.
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My kids use this all the time with their iPod - works really good -great qualityWe use standard iPod cable but you can buy a dock
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First of all the USB port is just a communication point between electronic consumer devices and does not dictate the quality of sound you will hear. That quality will depend on the music format you're playing, i.e. lossless/uncompressed (ex. WAV or AIFF) or lossy/compressed (ex. MP3 or AAC ). Apple iPods can play both types of audio file format. CD music are typically in WAV format. So if you want to hear CD quality music from your iPod on the Onkyo TX-8050 play only lossless/uncompressed music. Hope this helps.
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The good thing about the Onkyo Receiver is that the iPod connection is digital, which bypasses the analog conversion that happens when you use the headphone jack on your iPod - which is what I would bet you are using to get the iPod to play through a 20 year old receiver. Even if you are using an iPod dock, most of the docks on the market use that analog signal, which can be verified by your connection to the receiver. If you connect a red and white plug to the receiver from the iPod/dock, that is the analog signal and is not as good as the digital signal that the Onkyo would receive. What the digital signal gives you is a foundation for the best possible music from the iPod. From there, it depends on the way your music was converted for your iPod, just as Danilo A. Camit explained. Think of basic mp3 format as a quick 'snapshot' of the music - it only gives you a stripped down impression of a song, which doesn't sound very good when you put it through a bigger stereo system. To get the full 3D depth and clarity that a CD can give, you have to start with the CD and record it into your computer in the AIFF (or .wav) format. These formats are bit for bit identical to the CD and not a compressed, stripped down version like mp3. The only problem is the size of the file, which is quite a bit bigger, meaning you cannot have as many songs on your iPod before you fill it up.
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I have used the USB connection with my iPod on my receiver bought 3 to 4 years ago and it works great. Not only that, but the receiver charges my iPod while it is in use. I have found this charger is much better (gives me a fuller charge) than the one I plug into the wall. Since your receiver is 20 years old, I don't know. That means your receiver was produced in 1992. I think USB ports were good back then, but I can't say for sure. Good luck.
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No. The volume has to be turned up quite high on the receiver. It sounds pretty good, but the iPod is an MP3 player after all. No matter what sampling rate was used to record the MP3 track, I don't think it can sound like a CD.
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It all depends upon the audio file type. If your iPod contains uncompressed or lossless audio files with a bitrate that matches CD quality sound then yes the receiver will play CD quality sound. From your comment, I suspect the files on your iPod are low quality audio files (e.g. MP3) and the iPod does a poor job of decoding the audio. Your 20 year old receiver is letting your hear the poor results that are usually hidden when you use the dreadful iPod ear buds.Directly connecting your iPod to the TX-8050 will let the TX-8050 decode the audio file. It will do a far better job. It all depends upon the audio file type. If your iPod contains uncompressed or lossless audio files with a bitrate that matches CD quality sound then yes the receiver will play CD quality sound. From your comment, I suspect the files on your iPod are low quality audio files (e.g. MP3) and the iPod does a poor job of decoding the audio. Your 20 year old receiver is letting your hear the poor results that are usually hidden when you use the dreadful iPod ear buds.Directly connecting your iPod to the TX-8050 will let the TX-8050 decode the audio file. It will do a far... » Read More It all depends upon the audio file type. If your iPod contains uncompressed or lossless audio files with a bitrate that matches CD quality sound then yes the receiver will play CD quality sound. From your comment, I suspect the files on your iPod are low quality audio files (e.g. MP3) and the iPod does a poor job of decoding the audio. Your 20 year old receiver is letting your hear the poor results that are usually hidden when you use the dreadful iPod ear buds.Directly connecting your iPod to the TX-8050 will let the TX-8050 decode the audio file. It will do a far better job. « Show Less
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i can only say that the sound quality on our system improved by at least 50% with this receiver.
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Perhaps that is true, funny thing is if I listen to a CD or digital off a thumb drive they sound fine. It's the radio that sounds poor. I had only listened to radio when I wrote the review, I should have updated later. I would have to say that for the price they are a very good value and sound fine very good
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Hi Saint Louis, I bought one of this and I didn't get dissapointed. The stereo has a good desing and sounds much better than I expected. It comes with a remote control and batteries. It plays normal audio CDs, MP3 files, IPod via a usb port, and usb memories. I really like it.
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Did you have the same CD player with your old reciever? My guess would be that if anything is going wrong as far as reading a data disk as music, it would have to do with what you were using to read it, not the reciever. I'm actually surprised that you had a system that could use a data disk in such a way, because I've never seen one work like that.
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You need to connect it in Aux input using a male-male audio cable 3.5mm. I am not sure if your stereo audio from CD Player will be converted in 5.1 satisfactorily, because the original source is 2.0. In my case, I have connected an optical input, but when the audio is 2.0 (stereo), the adapter only gives 2.0 from RCA outs depending audio format. Only I have noted when the original audio is 5.1, the RCA outs from adapter is 5.1.
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I have not used the receiver with usb input. Phono and CD input plus receiver provide all of my quality listening. Old school input I know.
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There is a USB connection not an Apple connection. I haven't tried hooking my IPod up to it. It does pretty much everything else.
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Yes, just use the cd output. You can pick up.the audio cable at walmart for your ipod.
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You can connect it with the 3.5mm RCA cables, but the sound quality is poor, at least on mine, I have an IPod that I connect via USB, the sound quality is much much better. Hope this helps.
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hi Sarah, this boom box came broken (CD part), the quality of the sound for the radio is very poor. I would suggest you to look for another option. it is pretty, but that is it.
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The unit sounds amazing. It does come with several different adapters for the other ipods. I can't say with certainty that yours is one of them. But, Amazon has a good return policy.
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Should be fine with your receiver. There are usually several places on receivers to plug in accessory machines that use phono plug inputs. If you're replacing your cd player with this machine, it could plug into the same place where the old machine was plugged into, for instance. I love this machine. Great old school technology and you can randomly shuffle and have continuous music for a long time.
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I returned it the quality of sound was horrible. I just use the cassette adapter and get the best sound. Good luck
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The receiver doesn't have any USB and any bluetooth connectivity. There is a connection to an optional iPod dock. It is not included with this receiver but it was included in another setup I have at a different location.
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It SHOULD work with anything that has a headphone jack. It worked with my old CD player and Ipod. Try the cord that you got with something else that has a headphone jack, like your CD player it may be that the cord just isn't working. I actually had to buy a new cord because the one that came with the item broke after a few months. Or the console isn't charged all the way. Those are my only two suggestions. Hope you figure it out.
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There are several issues here. If this DAC is better than the one your computer uses to output analog audio (out front panel or rear panel), which is likely, your computer has a digital optical and/or coaxial audio output, which is also likely, you have really good headphones or better a good audio system (preamp/amp/speakers), and you are generating the digital audio signal from something better than a MP3 file (from CD or HD audio source), then yes it should sound better! Also, I note the DAC which I no longer own only supports PCM, so that means CD quality at best. Finally, I note the DAC does not have a signal gain adjustment which may be very import if you are just pugging in headphones as the signal may be too weak (I can't test that since I since as I said I no longer have the DAC).
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There are severe engineering "flaws" which greatly affect the audio quality on the 6th gen classic. It has to do with the cirrus dac which is being used in the newer ipods. im not sure when or if apple has fixed or intends to fix this problem, but until something is done about it, i intend to stick with my 5.5g ipod.