Audiophiles are always the first to complain about the lack of music integrity instilled with the less then CD-quality sounds that the iPod allows. We don’t really care whether our headphone wires are gold plated or not for better conductivity, but something like the iLink seems like a good idea if your willing to shell out the money. MSB promises that with their iLink docking station, the music on your iPod can be listened to at Bit-perfect CD quality levels. The iLink provides the first pure digital audio output allowed through an iPod by actually modifying the iPod itself to allow the transfer of digital data.

So, the question remains the same. Do you want to pay a normal amount of money and hear some good music or do you want to pay almost $2000 so you can hear every slide and scratch of a track. If it matters that much to you whether you can hear every aspect and minutiae of the music, then the iLink can provide you the power of audiophile sound from your iPod. And oh yeah, it looks pretty ugly. — Andrew Dobrow

MSB iLink [via iLounge]