I am looking for a high end bluetooth IEM, but am struggling to find a pair with high marks on audio quality.  In the higher end market, I have run across a lot of Jabra and Jaybird models, as well as some recent introductions by Denon, JBL, and Klipsch.  However, when they mention audio quality...

My new apartment has bunch of rooftop amenities like a pool, bocce court, grill, yoga studio, etc.  They are great, but working out, hanging in the pool, and BBQing without music are a disappointment.  Surprisingly there are never many/any people up there so I do not feel bad broadcasting my...

I have a pair of Adam A7x hooked up to my computer's Asus Xonar STX with RCA cables.  Out of one speaker's tweeter, I am getting a high pitched noise, even with no input signal.  It is particularly odd because the other speaker does not do this, even when I switch the RCA L/R cables.  I then...

I am almost always on my main workstation while listening to music and, needless to say, its a beast with 7 fans and 6 hard drives whirling and buzzing about.  I am thinking of building a dedicated media PC to play ripped blurays and my music library so I can listen in piece when not working.  I...

I have beem using Etymotic Research ER4S for the past 4 years and have been very hAppy with the sound and isolation. So mush so that I would never consider getting on a flight without them. Unfortunately after about 50 flights this past year I finally managed to take them out for a minute and...

I just got a pair of HD600 for Christmas and have been thoroughly enjoying them, except for one little thing.  I have been noticing a tinny buzzy/crackly sound in my left ear.  I only notice it during quiet technical sections of old (1960's and earlier) recordings.  I have been listening to...

I am starting the research for my upcoming build before I head off to college. In terms of audio, there are no cut and dry performance charts like there are for everything else, so here I am. I listen to music mostly though headphones, but I still want to retain the ability to output to a...

Is it possible to have Foobar do a Shuffle (tracks) playback of only certain genres or other category without making different play lists for each one? For example, if I want to play everything except jazz, or if I only wanted to play party friendly music genres. Thanks

I have some of my cds ripped to a single audio file and a cue sheet to make file organization easier; however, in Foobar, I now see the files determined by the cue and the large album file which I do not want to see. How do I set it up so that if there is a cue file, the source file does not...

I cannot seem to figure out why sound quality is viewed as a subjective thing. The goal is to reproduce an audible event without having to be at the location at the same time that it is being produced. At the location that the event took place, the sound waves passed through a point (mic, ears)...

Since, the Ipod Touch has wifi connectivity, how possible is it to connect through the internet to a desktop (XP) containing audio files for playback? I have done some research and there seems to be several software options that do this. Has anyone used any who could comment on any skips...

Is there a flash based player with a capacity of 32gb with an expandable memory slot (for a total of 64gb) that has LOD capabilities? Obviously battery life and build quality are important as well. Flac file compatibility is required as well. Thanks

As the title says, what are the best sounding headphones (full size or iem) that have good sound isolating capabilities. I am more familiar with the iem market and prefer something like the TP10 (more analytical), but do not know if there is something noticeably better in the full size arena...

Since audio is a wave, will we ever see it digitally defined in terms of a mathematical formula such as a vector as opposed to the snapshot method currently implemented? Is it even possible to digitally record sound in this way? Would us mere humans even be able to tell the difference between...

I have a few DVD-A albums and would like to rip them and keep the original multichannel tracks in a lossless codec. I have done some research and find many older discussions (2003 era) that state that there is no easy way except playing it though an analog cable to be decoded by a sound card. Is...

Is there a way to tell foobar to ignore the "the"'s at the beginning of artists and tract titles when sorting? Also can you sort by artist, then within the artist, sort by album or title? Thanks

Would playing flac files from a laptop through a mobile x-fi card or similar, or playing a mixture of flac and 320mp3 files though a D2 (both unamped) give better sound quality? Then if you get an external dac/amp such as the predator, which would be better? Thanks

is there a (preferably) flash based product that also allows you to also play files from a portable hard drive? I have been looking at the D2 with its expandable sd slot, but with my current music collection extending close to a terabyte, it would be nice to have a larger selection (320gb)...

When ripping to flac, I am guessing that since it is lossless, the compression rate only affects the time needed to process the file? If I am correct in that statement, will portable players struggle to open highly compressed flacs? If not, is it recommended that you just rip to flac in its most...

Can you use a 16gb or 32gb SDHC card with a 16gb D2? Everything that I have read states that you can use up to the "new" 8gb cards and is in reference to the 4gb player. Thanks

I currently have Shure E2c and am looking to upgrade as I will be using them several hours per day once the school year begins and the shures tend to be uncomfortable after a few hours. I need something portable as these will be used for portable media (probably D2, but still unsure), monitoring...