What advantages would I get in adding a headphone amp between my preamp (Art DJ-Pre II) and the headphones (Sennheiser HD 599)? The preamp has a 'Gain Trim' dial, which I tend to keep around 0 or 2, so I don't really miss a volume dial. Never really wanted or used the minimal EQ buttons or knobs...

Can I connect my Fiio X5 ii by the coaxial cable to my surround receiver to feed it multichannel audio? I tried this just now, but only got 2 or 3 of the 5 channels, so wondering how to get the 5 channels? Why am I doing this? Because my main disc player is a PS4 Pro and some DVD surround discs...

I use a Fiio M3 digital audio player with a 125 GB micro SD card. That card will be full soon. Tried to add a couple of albums and was surprised to see I had no space. I reluctantly deleted some albums to make space for Bob Dylan Live 1966 and Time Out of Mind. I don't want to keep deleting...

I bought my JVC HA-FXZ200 a couple of years ago. Now the right earphone intermittently goes quiet. The sheath/flex around the right wire that comes out the plastic Y-splitter (with 'LIVE BEAT' printed on it) has come out of that LIVE BEAT plastic case. Fiddling with it makes it work or not work...

My 6-yr-old son wanted me to put two Beatles' albums (1 & the White Album) on his Ruizu X50. I've already put several albums on there with no problem. The X50 only has folder view for the internal drive. However, as my son prefer to through scroll the SD card file, I put all music on there. The...

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I noticed new albums added to my FiiO M3's 64GB mSD don't appear in their proper alphabetical place on the M3. In folder view, Art Blakey comes at the very end, after Yes. And newly added Paul Simon should come in under 'P' but instead comes between Bjork and Bob Dylan.   If I add an album to...

I use a Mac. My DAP is a FiiO M3. Its highest FLAC quality is 48khz/24 bit. Can I use XLD to convert 96khz/24 bit songs to 48/24? If not, what other software can I use on a Mac?

Still getting to grips with the FiiO M3. Double albums (e.g. Genesis' Seconds Out; The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway; and David Gilmour's Live in Gdansk) were compiled as one on the M3, so both discs' Track 1s were followed by a pair of Track 2s, etc. I think I'm getting that fixed now, via...

Wanting to convert some DSD files--especially Bill Evans Some Other Time (The Lost Black Forest Sessions)--to FLAC. List to DSD on my MacBook. Need FLAC to load it on my FiiO M3. I have XLD, tried, but the result was not music! It sounds like modem noises, ouch!   Do I need to convert the DSD...

Hi, I'm Peter,   Very new to hifi. Just bought a Fiio M3 and some JVC HA-FXZ200 iems. I use a MacBook (2015, 12") and have just loaded XLD and VOX.   I want to get good quality sound from this set up, so need to be careful about what I input. Interested in DSD, esp. Bill Evans Some Other...