Brand New Wadia 170 iTransport - At Cost

Hi,

Last week on my trip to Taiwan & the HK Audio shows, I bought a Wadia 170 iTransport.

http://www.wadia.com/products/170i/170iTransport_home.htm



For those not familiar with the product, the Wadia iTransport is the ONLY iPod Dock in the world that will extract a DIGITAL SPDIF output from an iPod, without physically modifying the iPod.

This makes the iTransport ideal as a low cost starting point for a truly High Quality HDD playback system, which uses the iPod and its intutive user interface.

You will ofcourse need a DAC with a standard SPDIF input, to use with this ipod doc.

The Wadia iTransport also provides Stereo Analog audio out ( using the ipod's builtin DAC ) and DVD Quality Component Video Outputs.

( Please refer to the Wadia Website link above. )

I have depleted my Hi Fi budget for now, and do not intend to spend more on a DAC for now. Hence I am reluctantly selling this 2 day old iTransport, AT COST.

The iTransport is sold in the US for US $ 379 but I bought it for US $ 400 from HK, and that is the price I am asking. ( US $ 400 x Rs 43 = Rs 17,200)

NOTE: To save on packing space in my bag, I have discarded the Original Cardboad box. But ofcourse I have with me, all the accessories and original manual ( actually a small sheet of paper ! ) + Digital cable + Remote Control + 5 iPod Adaptors that came with the product.

Its not too large or heavy, so can be easily couriered. Courier charges ... ( Buyers choice of Courier company, and shipped at the Buyer's risk ! ) will be extra at actuals.

This is a GREAT way to get into HDD playback.

The iTransport has received RAVE Reviews, and I heard it at the Hong Kong show and was so impressed by it, that I bought it... Only to realise that I am out of budget for a DAC needed to play it.

NOTE: You MUST have a DAC with SPDIF input + an iPod to use this product.

If you have any questions on the iTransport, feel free to ask..

Some extracts from Press Reviews:

The new 170 iTransport from Wadia Digital turns your iPod into an audiophile listening source! The iTransport is the world’s first iPod dock to retrieve a direct digital signal from an iPod. As a result, the audio signal remains pure and unadulterated, providing better than CD-quality resolution from full-resolution file formats such as .WAV and Apple Lossless (.m4a). Every true music lover owes it to themselves, their music collection and their system to check this out! The iTransport turns any currently available iPod player into a high-end media server by providing a bit-perfect digital audio output to an audio/video system, bypassing the player’s internal digital-to-analog conversion (DAC) and analog output stage. Subsequently, the audio signal remains clean and unadulterated throughout the path, outputting a “bit-perfect” digital stream. The iTransport is compatible with: All Current iPods All iPod Nano Models The iPod Classic Models iPod Video Generation 5 Also the New iPod Touch/iPhone Models

“This is a brilliant product! One that finally lets the iPod be all that it can and should be. It took the imagination and know-how of a firm like Wadia to pull this concept off. The real genius of the iTransport is that it lets you pull digital audio straight off the iPod and route them to a superior-sounding outboard DAC. You’ll have an audio player that not only rivals (but in some cases handily outperforms) multi-thousand-dollar music servers and CD players!” - Chris Martens, Playback Magazine, August 2008

“Until now, there has been no real bridge between the convenience of an iPod and the high-end audio listening experience,” commented John W. Schaffer, President, Wadia Digital, Inc. “The goal of making the player a true high-end media server has been hampered by the need to send the digital signal through a portable player’s D/A converter rather than that of a high performance audio system. We designed iTransport to bypass the player’s converter and output stage altogether. When used with an iTransport, the iPod becomes a digital music source equal to some of the finest sounding transports in the high-end audio market.” Along with turning an iPod into a high-performance audio server, iTransport is one of the first docks to access video content stored on currently available iPods. Similar to the audio section, the video signal is made available via high performance component outputs that provide up to DVD-quality video. The Wadia 170 iTransport measures 2” x 8” x 8” (H/W/D), making it an easy addition to most racks and entertainment centers. Wadia incorporates a bit-perfect S/PDIF digital audio output and high-resolution component digital video output, as well as analog audio and video outputs for easy connection with most audio/video systems. Your iPod will be charged while in the dock and the product now comes complete with a remote to control all transport functions.

“I can tell you this much, it sounds fantastic! The dream of the iPod being a true audiophile component has now been realized and the sound quality is limited only by the DAC you own….the iPod through the 170 [iTransport] fooled a lot of people at my place into thinking they were listening to a five figure player!” – Jeff Dorgay, Tone Audio, Vol #14 2008 (pp. 134-136)