What's that iPod DAC mod thingy?

[Paradigm]

You know, that hardware mod people have done that's supposed to iron out the cheapness to compliment the really good DAC on the current/last gen of iPod?

I ask because I had a demo of a Fatman iTube on the weekend (coupled with a pair of B&W 686s) and I was seriously impressed. I recall being fairly impressed by the sound of the hardware mod and was wondering if it'd be a good idea to have that done 'n' all.

[CMcK]

iMod from Red Wine - http://www.redwineaudio.com/iMod.html

I have wondered if such a mod would be worthwhile before. Everything on my iPod is encoded in lossless.

A couple of years back my other half used her iPod instead of the CD player in her Denon system because the sound off the iPod was better!

I wonder if such a mod would make my iPod and XA-2 amp sound better than using the matching X-Ray CD player?

[Paradigm]

Not entirely sure it'd be for me in combination with the iTube then. A few words about that, btw, it's an incredibly good piece of kit for the money. I was totally shocked that it wasn't crap, it does what it says on the tin and produces good warm sound and was fine driving the 686s to moderate volumes!

[zeroboo]

this sounds pretty cool. 2 questions though:

1) will i benefit given all my mp3s are encoded at 128kbps - 192kbps
2) i use the stock headphones most of the time and only sometimes use a pair of shure.

dont really intend to use it with a proper speaker setup.