My PC has been without actual speakers for a bit, and as much as I love me headphones for sound, it's getting a bit annoying over time. So now I've been looking into what PC speakers I could hook up here. After a day's worth of researching, hemming and hawwing, I have kinda zeroed in on these...

I don't know if this is feasible. I was wondering what kind of USB DAC would work well with IEMs. I have an IFI ZEN DAC running with a Loxjie P20 balanced tube amp, but those are... Overkill for IEMs. I also have a Little Bear P10, which seems equally overkill - and it's not balanced. I'm just...

So I recently got myself an ifi Zen DAC, which is really the bee's knees and I enjoy it quite a lot. But that enjoyment is limited to full sized cans. The Zen turns out to be quite hissy with IEMs. I was wondering, if I add an amp, possibly a tube amp, just because I want to try that, would...

I would assume sythwave / retrowave / whatever we want to call this electronica subgenre is not terribly well regarded in audiophile circles. Too much artifice, there's artists a dime a dozen, and let's be honest, most of them just aren't very good. Too many tracks that are just haphazardly...

Friends, I have a problem. Well, it's not really a problem, it's just that my DAP's SD card is slowly but surely getting full - which is due to my going nuts and downloading all my Bandcamp purchases as FLACs. Which may not be the smartest thing in the world. So now I want to redownload the...

Since I'm spending a lot of time in front of computers, might as well look into this... But I have absolutely no clue where to begin looking or what to look out for. I have several laptops and a big gaming / workstation PC. Should I go for basically a dongle? Or something more substantial /...

So, here's a thing I've been wondering... I know this is HEAD-Fi, and there's a whole bunch of websites and stores that specialize in dealing with portable audio with little to no overlap with non-portable audio. I guess the overlap is that there's dedicated desktop "non-portable" headphone...

Ever since jumping on to the DAP bandwagon, I pretty much stopped using any of my computers as music players. But there's still things I need a windows music player app for, especially in terms of organizing, tagging and creating playlists. The latter is kind of important. I am an old school...

OK so I am approaching a conundrum. Thanks to going overboard on Bandcamp sales and Groupees.com bundles, my music collection is growing too fast for my poor little *ahem* 512GB micro SD card. This is because I suffered from that audiophile delusion of grandeur that told me to get all the music...

So the IEM field is now shot through with a great selection of super inexpensive often times great sounding Chinese offerings. There's also brands like Shanling and others in the DAP market that could arguably fit under the Chi-Fi umbrella (which, granted, the overwhelming amount of any...

So my ear canals are a) differently sized between left and right and b) fairly small, so most standard tips just end up hurting, with a few exceptions (the KZ AS16 star shaped tips are actually good, the OneMore Triple Driver silicone tips are good as well, as were the smallest tips that came...

I have been using an Astell & Kern A&norma SR 15 for the past year or so. It's my first "serious" DAP that goes beyond entry level CoWon's. Now I'm wondering, if I want to get another one, where to go from here? I don't really want to go for a $1000+ device. But looking around it seems every...

So apparently THIS is where a thread like this belongs, so my apologies for crossposting this. ANYWAYS... I'm looking for a new DAP now, and there are a lot of them out there at this prince point, and well, I don't quite know where to go. Back in the good old days I started out with an iAudio...