Dear Head-fi gurus, This here luddite is looking to move from CDs into the world of FLAC. The core aim is a box that has inbuilt storage, a remote control or Android app, and a digital output (it'll be going into a Schiit Modi). Nice-to-haves are the ability to rip CDs (to avoid having to use...

Just thought I'd put up a quick review of these budget IEMs, in case anyone was interested.   If you're interested in my headphone listening history, I started out with a set of Etymotic 4i's. Actually, 2 sets of the 4i's, turns out they're not a very robust model. Decent sound, and very good...