My friend's budget is about $500. What would be the better option? Micro idsd or Nano idsd + micro ican. Portability is not a big concern as this is for home audio use.   P.S: I already own a micro idsd and am extremely happy with the purchase. I happened to listen nano idsd and was very...

Forgive my ignorance. Why lineout is Direct and not Preamp in this set up? You are using iCan as the amplifier right? Is there any specific reason you'd want an amplified signal from idsd's internal amp to be fed to ican? Sorry if my question sounds noob but I am curious if there is anything...

Thanks SubGuy.

Does any X2 owners also own NAD VISO HP50? Can you please compare?

Thank you, this is very helpful. I just checked the manual again as you suggested and it basically answers all my questions :)

Folks,   Forgive me for my ignorance. I have some very basic questions. What is the difference between Direct and Preamp? If I chose Preamp, does the headphone output by-passes the inbuilt amplifier? I am able to control the volume through the volume control in both the modes so was confused...

Is it possible to use Meridian Explorer 2 with apple CCK or android OTG? I looked into their website and it doesn't look like it could be used with smart devices but just wanted to chck if anyone tried yet

Couldnt agree more... When I put these on.. it brings a huge smile on my face

  Thank you, will try that out. It's just that while listening to FLAC files, turning on the 3D provided me a very nice sound stage and I left it on like that. Let me try , turning it off while listening to lower quality files and check it out. Thanks again.

  I agree, that's why I said it makes a huge difference when playing high quality source (which is true, the difference is night and day). It's just that most of my older collections are of 320kbps or 256kbps AAC (few are 128 kbps ) purchased through itunes and I couldn't find much higher...

I have been using IFI Micro for almost a week now. It makes a huge difference in high quality source than playing directly from my MBP. However, for low quality MP3 (256/128 kbps), I feel the output from micro is a little bright and the sound is a tad edgy.. Anyone feel the same?   Can...

Thank you, IFI. You folks are the best

Thank you, jimmypowder. I really appreciate it.

I just figured out why the light is white even though I play 320 kbps or 256 kbps MP3. In the Audio MIDI setup in my mac (Applications>Utilities), under the Audio Devices, IFI AMR format is defaulted to 768KHz and hence it is always white. If I manually change the frequency here, the colour in...