As you can tell from my post rate I am a more of a lurker than poster, but I was hoping you guys could give me some advice. I have just recently connected a headphone amp to my speaker systems pre amp and am now looking for a pair of closed cans with good isolation. Reason for Closed backs...

Not meaning to cause a war over cables, but would there be any adverse affects by using 75ohm coax (not antenna coax) for a analogue interconnect? I only ask as I'm planning on knocking up some cables using van damme cable and their digital coax seems better made than their standard stuff...

A little history first. Recently I decided to upgrade my speaker rig in order to bring it in line with my headphone rig. This journey up the garden path lead to me swapping out my 6 year old nad c320bee amp for a naim pre/power combo, which I love dearly. Now by doing this I ended up with...

Odd question you might think, but I'm thinking about building a hifi rack out of rubberwood chopping boards like this one: Buy Cookworks Large Solid Butchers Block. at Argos.co.uk - Your Online Shop for . I'd be using a complete board for a shelf then one cut width ways to act as...

I*original bit removed, due to complete pointless-ness* I've been looking at the nait 5i amp for £725 and so far I'm impressed. But the opportunity to buy a NAC122x and matching NAP150x for £900 (ex demo) has got me wondering where my cash would be better placed Which one would you...

My problem is simple, I've been saving up in order to upgrade my speaker rig but I'm not sure how to go about it. I currently run: Nad c320bee amp, Nad c521bee cd and wharfedale evo-2 8's standmounts I've currently put £1000 away (about $1600) for a new disc spinner and integrated amp...

I've got a creek obh-2 powersupply knocking around and I was just wondering if it would be possible to use this with my gs novo (the crappy switching wallwart's whistling is doing my nut in ) The spec for the wallwart is: 24vdc 0.75A The OBH-2: 24vdc regulated 500mA As far as I can...

Does anyone know if there is a way to ground a sound card? May seem like a daft question, I'm fully aware it should be grounded through the motherboard but it doesn't seem to be. The problem I have is a ground issue that causes the digital signal from my m-audio 24/96 to drop out whenever...

Not sure if this is quite the right place to post this but has anyone here ordered an amp from this seller on ebay? eBay My World - luckyfrogaudio I've been having a look at his darkvoice amps, seems a reasonable way to avoid the troubles of importing. Just wondered if anyone's had any...

I've got a strange problem that I hoping someone else has encountered (and solved ). Whenever I plug a usb cable into my front bays it causes the digital signal from my M-audio 2496 to dropout for a second. I've checked my IRQ and that seems fine I've also played with latencies and buffers...

I was considering adding a dac, either V-dac or dacmagic, to my current set up: Foobar 0.9.5.6> M-audio 2496> GS Novo> Grado sr325i/sen hd650 But before I do so I was wondering if I'll get any noticeable improvement. I've read about the benefits of having an external box; avoids internal...