Gawd, I hate my iPod. Not even noisy old speed-unstable 8-tracks stripped so much emotion from music as an iPod full of mp3 files does. Imagine dumping all the clean, full-bodied digital bits that were once on a CD, now stored on your iPod, into your washing machine. Fill with bleach, full-strength. Wash, rinse and spin. Shovel the now-sharp, brittle little buggers out of the tub and transfer to the dryer. An hour later, pour the abrasive heap back into your iPod. That's about what happens to music that passes through an mp3 mill and your 'Pod on the way to your ears. Where's the Tone; the Big-T TONE that puts the sound of live music in your head? Aw, it's been bleached out, trampled and scraped to the bone by lossy compression and wrung moistureless through the wringer of the itty bitty chip amp squeaking away just behind the headphone jack.

Well, here's how to get your sound halfway back to some semblance of expression -- a neat and tidy remote controlled iDock connected to 13 juicy watts of emissive vacuum state glory per channel! You'll use this just like a cheesy plastic case chip amp iDock, except it's gleaming polished steel, with the heft of real iron, and it spews a restored stream of full-bodied Tone. Wire this up to a pair of Zu Tones or Druids, or any other 95+db/w/m speakers to hear iPod tunes rehydrated. You won't go back to the usual white plastic dock box that blows. (via Bluebird Music)

If you are love tube sound I think you will love this? I bought the Naam Ipod amp through Military Exchange same as the fatman also also same Daared amp. I have many tube amps and now I have one for my ipod and also use it for computer. It is a hybred but what the hell. Change those tubes out and you won't beleave change the sound. I bought some Telefuncken tubes on ebay for about $10.00 a pair. Even before the new tubes my son listen to this amp through his Sony Minidic and now he bought one. This is a great amp for fathers to give their kids . Old school meets new school? Got Tubes