Okay, first of all this is for getting a LINE signal from your ipod. If you want to use this, you’ll need an amp. The ipod volume control will do NOTHINGMoving on, this is a wonderful device. The sound is super crisp and clear. I use my ipod with a fiio A3, and the sound I get out of my sennheiser HD600 is just sublime. Highly recommend if you have the right tools to take advantage of this

This is a great product if you want a direct line out for your iPod (a line out is like turning your iPod into a pre-amp, so you won’t have volume control. The amp you connect the iPod to will be the source of volume control). This also give you the option to charge at the same time if desired with a mini USB. The reason it’s a 4* product vice 5* is it is very light and delicate. You have to be very careful attaching it and detaching from your iPod, and when attached it doesn’t lock in place, so any bump or movement of the cables will cause it to release from the 30-pin iPod connection. There’s a European company that makes essentially the same product but it is about $10 more and looks to have similar drawbacks.

I purchased a Fiio E11 headphone amplier to use with my iPhone and various pairs of headphones, and was initially underwhelmed with it's performance; I even considered sending it back. After more research on the value of using a line-out connection, I purchased this LOD, and am very glad I did. It brought out the true potential of the amplifier, and now my music sounds considerably better than without. I would never use my amp without this LOD again. Also, the USB charge port is very useful, and has come in handy during long listening sessions.The one thing I would advise is that for some reason, the mini USB cable that came with my Fiio amp (and charges it fine) doesn't work with this device, leading me to believe it was defective. Luckily, I took the time to try a different mini USB cable, and it worked; it just (ironically) does not work with the Fiio brand cable -- FYI for those E11 users that may encounter the same situation...

I bought this adapter to try something: I wanted to set up my iPod nano on my desk, the output going through a small amplifier to some desktop speakers, without routing through my PC. I also wanted to have the iPod be charged constantly so I didn't have to unclip it everyday to recharge it. There are two signal outputs available on the iPod:1-the 'internal' output, which comes through the base adapter and can be intercepted either through a PC or by using a commonly-available Y adapter (I was using one of those). This is a signal output only, fixed volume, is not controlled by the volume/menu dial on the iPod, and bypasses all the iPod internal equalizer (EQ) settings including such things as 'enhanced bass' or volume gain control; it is raw signal only. Apple intended your PC audio player (presumably under iTunes) to do that.2-the 1/8" miniature stereo plug that appears on the bottom of the iPod alongside the base adapter slot. This is intended for the earbuds/earphones and *does* use the EQ, volume and gain settings.I wanted the EQ settings and the volume gain controls to work, and to use the iPod volume dial rather than the volume dial on the amp (I hoped it wouldn't be necessary given the EQ gain settings anyway).I thought that I'd use this adapter to see if there was any difference in audio output from the Y adapter I was using (they are of notoriously poor construction). There is none, this adapter operates identically to the Y adapter, with the exception that you need a power source that ends with a mini-USB terminal (not the thinner micro as is on most all cellphones these days) rather than the Apple dock cord with their proprietary adapter, which of course is built into the top of this adapter.BTW, in case there's any confusion, the manufacturer shows two views of the one adapter in the same photo so you can see both the power input (a mini USB) and the audio output (mini-stereo) that are located on opposite sides (there's nothing on the bottom of the adapter), you don't get two adapters. The placement of the mini-USB power input on the adapter blocks the headphone audio output on the iPod so that it cannot be used, I don't think that was the intent but it is placed that way just the same, thus you can only use the 'internal' line-audio. The audio output on this adapter is the internal, fixed, signal-only that bypasses all the EQ, volume and gain controls, it is useful as a feed for your car or amplifier with EQ, volume and gain controls, not headphones.The adapter is fine for what it does, and seems reasonably well built, but except for compactness and looks, offers no particular advantage over the much less costly Y adapters.

I have an iLink bluetooth adaptor that just never worked right with the ipod connector in my car. Unfortunately, I just missed the return window on that, so I picked this up to try with my receiver. It works great! Amazingly small, even with the bluetooth adaptor connected. No audible hum when no music is playing, like many experience with lower cost alternatives. I had an old mini-usb charger that I re-purposed to power it.However, no charger is included, and mini usb is not as common as it used to be. At this price, I'm not terribly upset about no charger, although I was surprised that it did not use a micro usb connection.

Very disappointed!! I purchased this a solution to repairing my iPOD headphone jack or replacing my iPOD altogether. The headphone jack on my iPOD no longer plays in stereo. My iPOD is not recognizing the FiiO Line Out Dock as plugged in. Instead, music plays through the speaker of my iPOD. I waited a week to get this FiiO only to learn I have to find another solution for my iPOD. NO - I don't want to have to purchase bluetooth headphones.

Perfecto para lo que quería, permite cargar el iPod con un mini-USB y extrae el audio con el volumen máximo.

l'audio di linea esce con una qualità incredibile, e con l'usb tiene l'iPhone carico. E' stato veramente un ottimo acquisto!!!

I bought this for a friend of mine, after we both got fed up with nearly getting a heart attack every time the traffic updates interrupt the music playing from the iPod, connect to the car stereo via the headphone socket.After connecting this nifty little device to the iPod, the audio quality improved considerably (interestingly, line out audio on the iPod completely bypasses the internal sound chip and DSP), everything sounded cleaner and, importantly, louder!At this price it is an no-brainer, get one!EDIT 31-03-2014Many people seem to be confused as to whether it can be used with headphones (for example when the iPod's built-in headphones socket is damaged), or why line-out is so much louder than headphones and why the level can't be controlled. I've addressed this in the question asked for this product, but as that may not get noticed by everyone, I'll repeat the explanation in this review:The purpose of line-out is to interconnect audio devices. This is how hi-fi components, e.g. a CD player, are connected to an amplifier; the CD player's line-out (red + white RCA connectors) connects to the amp's line-in and delivers a fixed level to the amp. You then adjust the volume of the amplifier to control the output level of the music you're listening to.If line-out level was variable, like the headphones output, you'd end up with a situation where you'd do nothing but adjusting volume levels on both your playback devices (CD, DVD, radio, minidisc, cassette, VHS, games consoles, etc, etc) and your amp. If line-out level is too low, you'd have to increase the amp's output in order to hear everything at a loud enough level, however this would also increase the amount of noise (hiss) we're all familiar with when an amp is too loud and nothing's playing through it. Headphones, on the other hand, need to be at a much lower level, as well as adjustable, in order to protect our ears, since we effectively place the sound source only 1 inch (!!) away from our eardrums.The iPod provides line-out in the form of Apple's proprietary connector, which is what the many iPod docks with integrated amp + speakers use. Adapters like the FiiO L11 allow you to connect an iPod to a hi-fi amplifier via this proprietary line-out (dock) connector, in exactly the same way as the CD player example above.So where do headphone amps sit in this picture? Well, think of them as a portable hi-fi amplifier. Back to the CD player example, if you want to listen to a CD via headphones, you'd connect the headphones to the amp's headphones socket and then use the amp to adjust the listening level. When you replace the CD player in this scenario with an iPod, it becomes clear that you need an amplifier in order to use your iPod with headphones.To put this scenario in the simplest form possible:CD player -> hi-fi amplifier -> headphonesiPod + L11 -> (headphone or hi-fi) amplifier -> headphonesNow some CD players have a headphones socket on the front, with its own dedicated volume control, this is exactly like the headphones socket and volume control on an iPod. This is, in fact, a headphone amplifier. Adjusting this volume control does not change the line-out level to the amp, only to the headphones (the amp does not even have to be on when using the headphones socket on the CD player), hence the volume control on the iPod cannot be used to control output to headphones when connect via the L11.Just like no one would attempt to connect a CD player to an amp via the CD player's headphones socket, it does not make sense to connect an iPod to an amp using the headphones socket, which is where products like the L11 come in. And so we've come full circle!PS if you do intend to use the L11 as a replacement for an iPod's broken headphone socket, please note that you are better off with the , or a combination of the (the nearly identical L9 does not secure in place, unlike the L3) and one of FiiO's headphone amplifiers like the , or, if you can stretch to it, the more sophisticated models like the . Finally there are the models that combine a headphone amplifier with a DAC, such as the (currently the same price as the older ) which doubles up as, for example, a replacement for a laptop's inbuilt sound card for much improved sound quality.While the L11 can fulfil the same role as the L3/L9, the L11 requires a separate jack-to-jack lead to connect to a headphone amp. This is another thing to carry on you (and lose), and more connectors mean more things to break and (potentially) more signal loss/increased noise. The L3/L9 has a nice, short, integrated jack lead, avoiding all of the above issues.

Kostengünstiges LOD mit optionaler Stromversorgung. Das Teil ist für den Preis ordentlich Verarbeitet und macht was es soll.Zusammen mit dem Dolry HiFi Stone auch hervorragend geeignet um 'docklose' HiFi Systeme Airplayfähig zu machen.

Alors, qualité globale excellente :- produit solide, connecteur qui tient très bien- qualité audio très satisfaisante, le niveau de sortie est très élevé par-rapport à la sortie jack et le son est meilleur, pas loin d'un CD (en tout cas en voiture résultat proche) (AAC 256 largement suffisant en voiture avec tous les bruits extérieurs et la qualité des HP des voitures)Je rappelle l'intérêt de ce type de produit : vous utilisez votre baladeur en voiture et vous n'avez pas de prise usb mais une prise jack, la sortie jack des baladeurs apple est limitée pour deux raisons (niveau de sortie du volume faible car bridée et qualité audio limitée par l'amplification interne), ce produit récupère le signal analogique avant amplification (et pas le signal numérique mais peu importe en voiture, en revanche je conseille une airport express sur une chaine stéréo pour by-passer le DAC interne) (attention avec ce produit vous n'avez plus de contrôle du volume sur le baladeur donc ne pas brancher de casque sauf si utilisation d'un ampli casque)