[TheMole]

Anyway, it seems a very limited range of sound to me when I hear it.

Agreed. iPods just don't sound that great. They improve with better headphones, but even then they're just not really high fidelity. I'm not selling or promoting them, but I've noticed that the sound on some of the iRiver products is quite good.

[A CA Guy]

I have an obsessed friend who has a 300gb Hd with Itune programs and probably 70k songs.

He has a few 60gig Ipods nearly filled with tunes and he plugs them into his cars and they sound like stereo from 1968.

It sounds like they limited the transfer of sound to two channel stereo instead of quadraphonic of what ever you call it today.

IMO Ipod darn well knows they did this and in years they will cause the sale of all new Ipods by coming out with ones that send a full signal out.

Or if a competitor was smart, they would do that first.

Currently this sounds like two cheap speaker stereo when it should be sounding at least like Dolby surround sound IMO.