Techotic Gadgets

Playing your iPod through this vacuum-tube amplifier sounds a little unpromising, but the results are very satisfying. The tubes amps produce warm well rounded sound, which has the effect of smoothing over MP3 files tendency towards sounding harsh. The tube-based iPod dock combined with good speakers will give a quality sound.

Tube amps for the iPod have grown in popularity in recent years. There are elaborate small set-up’s to the very large, there are now lots of different ways to marry your iPod with thermionic tubiness.

over at Dvice, they’ve compiled the top ten list of tube amplifiers for the IPod. My personal favorite has to be Roth Audio MC-8: Mother of all iPod docks, it can pump out 35 watts per channel through a pair of milk bottle-size 845 tubes and you can have it for $5000 USD.