Dice Sound Quality Issues

[Ash]

I really want to hear abt your experience with Dice's "quality", not the convenience aspect. I found it to be an extremely poor performer. Muddy, no detail, cloudy bass, and horrible voice rendering.

After replacing all stock speakers with Rainbows and the stock sub with BSW's kit with Alpine Amp, the CD Changer had new life breathing into it. Then I installed the Dice and was apalled by the sound. Then I converted a whole bunch of songs into Apple Lossless (at over 800kb). That made no difference.

My theory is that the unit suffers from cheap quality parts and a real cheap and long 2-meter cable that loses everything. Just to make it clear, when I hear the same lossless files via my etymotic headphones or via my home hifi system connected to a bryston amp, you almost cannot make out any difference between CD and iPod.

There are lots of threads and ideas around Dice's "features", but anyone out there has any suggestions on how to make it listenable? Thanks