{"id":42,"date":"2013-01-09T21:55:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T04:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/senseandsound.net\/?p=42"},"modified":"2013-01-23T23:19:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T06:19:07","slug":"a-good-ampitutde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/senseandsound.net\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"A Bad Ampitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re deploying decent phones onto your head, the tweaky little amplpifier on your iPod is going to be an issue &#8211; it will let you down! It has a tiny equalizer and &#8216;loudness&#8217; feature, but at the other end it will sound tinny and hollow or just nasty and blown out if you turn the gain up on anything with a bassline. I&#8217;m using a little intermediary gadget as a headphone amplifier; thank goodness it&#8217;s not as massive as a full-sized stereo amplifier with 15 lb magnets. So here&#8217;s a rare product placement (though I&#8217;m not getting paid), look up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/FiiO-e5-E5-Headphone-Amplifier\/dp\/B001P9EQH8\/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1357792722&#038;sr=1-1-catcorr&#038;keywords=fiio+amp\">FiiO E5 Headphone Amplifier<\/a>. It works great. I actually did not originally buy this for headphones, but for my car stereo. That&#8217;s another long story, but with the same problem: Trying to plug my iPod into an aux jack without an amplifier, and it still doesn&#8217;t help. If I want to listen to something I hate and make it sound even worse I load it in my car with that setup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re deploying decent phones onto your head, the tweaky little amplpifier on your iPod is going to be an issue &#8211; it will let you down! It has a tiny equalizer and &#8216;loudness&#8217; feature, but at the other end &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/senseandsound.net\/?p=42\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/senseandsound.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/senseandsound.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/senseandsound.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/senseandsound.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/senseandsound.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/senseandsound.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"http:\/\/senseandsound.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/senseandsound.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/senseandsound.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/senseandsound.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}