how are the ne-770x's? at $10 are they a solid choice for everyday commute?

  please, please, please do yourself a favor and get a real setup (i.e., not driven speakers). the sound is SO much better with separate amp+speakers, and you can always add a preamp/sub or upgrade the amp/speakers later on.

i'm 90% sure it's due to the cable messing up. it started going last week, and messing with the cable seemed to fix it. when i tried them yesterday, the sound was completely gone in the right ear so now im back to ksc75's for a little while. can i get some recs for an iem under $50 that's...

i dont have a lot of experience with other headphones or amps, but right now i have a 120ohm 595 coming out of a vhp-2 right now (just ordered the vac-1 actually), and i like it a lot

vhp-2

im using the audioquest mini3

id go with 320bit mp3s instead of flac; i find the extra room that flac takes to not be worth it also, im planning on setting up a similar system to yours (computer-dac-amp-cans); im probably going to be purchasing a hagusb once i get a dac

Quote: Originally Posted by mapleleafs Does anyone know how to use kernel streaming or ASIO with the TBAAM (using the windows drivers)? I got ASIO to work with my laptop soundcard, but it doesn't seem to be working with my TBAAM... kernal streaming in foobar you just have to go...

monster cables are overmarketed

guys i have a rock that keeps tigers away, im selling it for only $200

well, i want to build a new setup over the coming months that i can use between both a laptop and a computer, and so im going to need a usb transport. however, seeing as there are so many different ones (ua-1ex, transit, hagusb, empirical audio stuff, xitel pro hifi link, etc), i think one...

cmon, this forum has discussions over which lossless forms sound best, and usb cables cant sound different?

Quote: Originally Posted by necropimp something tells me any difference would be purely psychological it's 1s and 0s people... but he said he tested on his wife who didnt know which was which...

Quote: Originally Posted by nelamvr6 OK, you're probably not meaning for me to be thinking about what the thread title made me think about. haha same

if im starting from scratch to building a new setup (upgrading phones though), what would be the best order to buy components? i was thinking transport*/external soundcard, amp, psu, dac, phones, cables, but is there a more logical order to buy? *i'm not exactly sure what a 'transport' is...

Quote: Originally Posted by lator For me synergy is very important and for the very reason I built my headphone setup with Musical Fidelity gear. So far I have been very happy with the results and can fairly say that synergy is not a problem with this setup. I maybe could had gotten...

is there a better chance/is it more likely that if one uses a same-brand setup (e.g. channel islands vhp-1, vac-1, vda-2; firestone cute beyond, fubar II, supplier; musical fidelity x-cans, x-dac, x-psu), then the setup overall will sound better as opposed to mixing and matching? asthetics aside...

whats a decent external sound card/dac that i could use between my laptop and desktop? i was looking at the waveterminal u24, is that a decent one?

whats a good, solid external DAC/usb soundcard that would fit well with 595's (eventually upped to 600's or 650's)?

hows this http://www.radioshack.com/sm-stereo-...i-2103981.html

Quote: Originally Posted by awu_gigabyte If i wanted to go new, what would be a good place to purchase one? Thanks! http://www.ttvj.com/index.php?main_p...roducts_id=745 or the meier audio link at the top for aria http://www.audiolineout.com/dared/dared.html for dared mp5

ill take it down i guess, although i couldnt read the licensing agreement in the first place seeing as its in russian

look in the other foobar setup thread, i posted an installer that is preconfigured and is, in my opinion, a very nice setup. i set up a few dsps and changed a few things here and there, but otherwise its a very solid config. http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/showt...=184284&page=6

someone on a different forum i visit posted this pre-configured version of fubar with a bunch of plugins already on it. the guy had gotten it off of a reliable private torrent, heres what they said about it: Quote: Nobody wants to spend 3hrs locating plugins and writing crazy code in...