And you would be wrong, since the goal for most of these people is to
build something nifty looking that makes a recognizable sound rather
than true perfection of audio fidelity. nonetheless some, maybe most,
of these things do work and much better than their dismal measurements
would suggest at that.

As you know the 220 dryer/range/air conditioner outlet is in my
opinion the preferred way to go from a current availability and noise
standpoint.

As far as portable music players and in-ear monitors, bull****. I own
both an iPod and one of the brand new Delphi MyFi XM pocket radios. XM
is impressive technology for the car, but the audio is not even CD
quality. It's not good or even halfway good vinyl quality. It's better
than most of the commercial FM that's been Orbanned up the ass (some of
the channels are) and better than Sirius. MP3's are another flawed
sub-CD format. Not only are these compressed formats lossy but the DAcs
and analog sections of these little items are just very limited. They
have to be tiny, cheap, and pull very little ccurrent. There are
tradeoffs here.