My portable set-up:
iPod classic 160GB
Qable Silvercab
Headroom Portable Micro w/ DAC
Shure E500
What format do you have your iPod songs encoded? How good is performance?
My God.
He'd beter be using Apple Lossless (or AIFF, though it takes up an inordinate amount of space for the same quality of audio), otherwise he's wasting about $1100 in equipment!