Apple iPhone Sound Quality?

Relative to what? It's a phone...that should tell you something.

Haven't heard one but there's a long comparison piece in the latest online version of MacWorld. Here's one quote:

"Listening: The iPhone sounds as good as any iPod you’ve ever owned. Mine plays through the portable speaker systems I’ve connected it to via the Dock connector port on the bottom of the phone—though the iPhone tells me that the attached peripheral is not supported and offers to switch the iPhone into Airplane mode to avoid generating audio interference. Like the latest screen-bearing iPods, it supports gapless playback so you can feel secure asking it to play the B-side of The Beatles’ Abbey Road or Brian Wilson’s Smile without interruption."

Apple doesn't provide any way to get a digital signal out but there are modders who do it, at a high price. There have been several threads about that recently.

OK the deal is that if you own an iPhone and pay the $60 transponder fee being advertised on the gon these days, and call the special number using the iPhone, then, because, you know, the phone is part of the system, it will turn your iphone into a state of the art digital player, which you can then hook up to your system. And, as a bonus, compressed files sound totally uncompressed.