Nice right up but I cant belive that the dice is worse than a cassette adapter as that is the lowest quaility I could imagine.There must be something wrong with the dice or the install I have a ice link and the sound is as good as cdc but without it jumping at all! It might be worth you getting a aux lead for your I pod. Although not as good quaility as Icelink/Dice will be better than cassette adapter. And for the record I dont use standard headphones with my I pod.