I rip a lot of stuff to 320 VBR when making CD’s for my car, The stuff on my computer is FLAC just so (in theory) it will survive every hard drive transfer to the day I die.
Sound card
Headphone Amp
current headphones
I’ll admit it’s all very entry level, I wont even get into my turntable and speakers because those aren’t even worth anything. with each upgrade I did notice better and better sound, and I hate how picky it has made me. V2 (190 i believe) and on an Ipod it might be difficult to notice the difference. I’d be interested in trying someday. Especially with the headphones that come with this, I mean they’re decent but they’re not amazing. I’d even be willing to say I’d probably fail a test with just an ipod and v2-v0 side by side.
Once you start noticing the differences though it bugs you 