Wadia 171iTransport (Black)

iPod/iPhone transport with S/PDIF digital audio output

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New from Wadia, the 171iTransport is the first ever component specifically designed to transform your iPod AND your iPhone into a high-resolution audio/video media servers. The 171iTransport combines the convenience of personal audio with the performance and connectivity of your home audio/video system, delivering a bit-perfect digital audio signal via S/PDIF coaxial (RCA) output and DVD quality video via component outputs, all built on a sleek aluminum chassis.

Works with iPhone (iPod and iPhone not included.)

Cut out the middle man

Tell us if this sounds familiar: the tunes on your iPod sound just fine when you're listening to them on a pair of earbud headphones, but when you get home and plug your iPod into a dock connected to your home A/V system to finish the playlist, all of a sudden the audio quality seems to be missing something. The explanation is simple: even though you have high-bit-rate, CD-quality digital audio files loaded onto your iPod, before any song's audio signal leaves the iPod, a built-in DAC chip converts the digital signal into an analog signal that can be amplified and sent to your headphones or speaker system. Now, no matter the application, this digital-to-analog conversion (DAC) must happen; the problem, however, is that the DAC performed by the iPod itself doesn't deliver an analog signal that maintains CD-quality sound when played on anything other than your earbuds. As it happen, though, most home receivers feature powerful DAC technology that can preserve the detail and quality of your digital files. So, what you need is a way to get the digital signal around that little DAC chip in your iPod so that it can be sent to the chip in your receiver. Enter the 171iTransport from Wadia.

Not just for iPods — the 171iTransport welcomes the iPhone too

Thank you, thank you, thank you Wadia for being on the ball, or the iPhone as the case may be. The 171iTransport steps up to the plate to perform just as beautifully with the iPhone as it does with the iPod.

And that's not all Wadia improved

The 171iTransport boasts better power supply components as well as upgraded connectors for purer audiophile performance. They added a power indicator (nice to know if you're coming or going), and they added the ability to navigate through your music and video content via the remote.

Audiophile sound from your iPod . . . It's no joke

By simply bypassing the digital-to-analog conversion built in to your iPod or iPhone, Wadia's 171iTransport gives you full access to your digital audio files. Now, the only limit to a file's quality is its own resolution and the performance capabilities of your audio system. In other words, when you use the 171iTransport to access the audio files on your iPod, you are able to send a pure digital signal to a high-performance DAC mechanism in your A/V receiver, making it possible to achieve true audiophile performance from your iPod. Now, whether you've downloaded a high-bit-rate song from the internet or ripped one of your CDs to your computer, you can listen to that song with no sacrifice in quality on your home audio system. Oh, and did we mention, the 171iTransport delivers the same performance for video? Preserve and send DVD-quality video from your iPod video to your home A/V system.

The connections

No home A/V component is complete without a hearty portion of audio and video connections for hooking to the rest of your A/V system, especially a device the raises your iPod audio to audiophile levels. For digital output of audio signals, the 171iTransport offers one digital S/PDIF coaxial output. Further, for high-performance output of the video on your iPod, the 171iTransport offers 1 set of component-video outputs.

Comparison Specifications

Functionality: Digital output of audio and video files on iPod players
Digital audio output: 1 S/PDIF digital coaxial out (RCA)
Digital video output: 1 component video
Compatible with iPhone
Remote control: Infrared remote control included