So, I've been using the Luxman P-200 about a week and I can say using it with the phono stage is an improvement, although I find it difficult to articulate how this is so.

Couldn't make up my mind about either of these, so I think I'll order a used Luxman P-200. I've found a couple of used ones for around $250 (Japanese yen equivalent) at a store in Tokyo. Perhaps this'll make me want to upgrade my phono stage (from the Art DJ Pre II) in a year or so, but...

Thanks. Am reading about these two, the Schitt Magni Heresy being a phono stage and an amp while the JDS Labs Atom Amp+ is an amp but has not phono stage. So, I either keep the Art DJ Pre II and get the Atom Amp+ to give me better damping or I get the Magni Heresy to give me better damping plus...

Thank you for that explanation! So, I'll be looking for a headphone amp of a phono stage and headphone amp hybrid. I'm only thinking to spend $200 or so, so I think I'd likely get better value if I keep the Art DJ Pre II and look for a headphone amp only. Also, I'm in Japan and I quite often see...

Thanks for the reply. I have a Y-connector adapter from the Art DJ-Pre II RCA line out to a regular headphone jack, so I plug the HD599 into that. The Art DJ-Pre II, or at least some phono stage, is necessary, because my turntable does not have a built-in phono-stage/preamp. I was just...

What advantages would I get in adding a headphone amp between my preamp (Art DJ-Pre II) and the headphones (Sennheiser HD 599)? The preamp has a 'Gain Trim' dial, which I tend to keep around 0 or 2, so I don't really miss a volume dial. Never really wanted or used the minimal EQ buttons or knobs...

Thanks. FLACs.

Can I connect my Fiio X5 ii by the coaxial cable to my surround receiver to feed it multichannel audio? I tried this just now, but only got 2 or 3 of the 5 channels, so wondering how to get the 5 channels? Why am I doing this? Because my main disc player is a PS4 Pro and some DVD surround discs...

I use a Fiio M3 digital audio player with a 125 GB micro SD card. That card will be full soon. Tried to add a couple of albums and was surprised to see I had no space. I reluctantly deleted some albums to make space for Bob Dylan Live 1966 and Time Out of Mind. I don't want to keep deleting...

I bought my JVC HA-FXZ200 a couple of years ago. Now the right earphone intermittently goes quiet. The sheath/flex around the right wire that comes out the plastic Y-splitter (with 'LIVE BEAT' printed on it) has come out of that LIVE BEAT plastic case. Fiddling with it makes it work or not work...

My 6-yr-old son wanted me to put two Beatles' albums (1 & the White Album) on his Ruizu X50. I've already put several albums on there with no problem. The X50 only has folder view for the internal drive. However, as my son prefer to through scroll the SD card file, I put all music on there. The...

Hello James,   Last July or so you said the firmware engineers were working on a way to keep the sleep timer, instead of having to reset it every time. Is that being worked on?    Geordiepete

@MrSpaniard   You say the FiiO M3 is no longer shown on the FiiO website, but that's not so. Here's the URL the FiiO M3 webpage:   http://www.fiio.net/en/products/47   In the last couple of months, FiiO have said they are working on a firmware update with improvements including sleep...

I own it, as do many Head-Fiers, and it's a respected FLAC player on the Head-Fi message boards. Tiny too. I put a 128 GB mini SD card in mine, and I'm very happy with it.   Peter

Sorry. I want to delete this post and thread, but can't see how. Only how to edit.

Just downloaded YAFS, needed JRE, so clicked on the link, but then when I tried to download that from  the Java site, I got this message:   An error occurred while processing your request. Reference #30.37b5f748.1468486602.43b34d5   It seems Mac OS X.10+ (I'm using 10.11.5) doesn't play...

Thanks Mikerman!   I'll have a play with YAFS and say how that goes later. As for FatSort, all that fiddling with XCode (???) and talk about building the software (or whatever) is way beyond my skill set!   Pete

If anyone finds a Mac GUI app that can do this, please let me know!

  I see I have not made myself entirely clear. I agree that many, indeed all, users, myself included, would want tracks within albums to be sorted by track no. But I was not talking about that. I am referring to the folder view problem. Specifically, when a new artist folder is added to the...

@JamesFiiO:   Yes, there's no problem, as you say James, with the way tracks are listed within albums, but if FiiO could fix the way the M3 sorts artist folders, and could make them alphabetical rather than in order of when they were loaded onto the device, that would be a great improvement...

@JamesFiiO   Thanks James,   I appreciate the considerate reply, and I do really like the FiiO M3. It does many things well, and I only have two problems with it: 1. The sleep timer, which I think FiiO can fix in a later firmware update, and 2. The fact that new songs are not listed...

@JamesFiiO   Hi James,   Could the next firmware fix the problem of having to reset the sleep timer setting each time the FiiO M3 is turned on?   Many users would like the sleep timer to remain at a set value without having to reset it each day. The volume setting, for example, can be set...

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If I could find a Windows solution to this, I would dust off Windows computer to dedicate to putting my FiiO M3 library in alphabetical order. A bit more info., on the Mac, I'm using freeware SyncFolders so that only music newly added to my Mac gets transferred to my FiiO M3 (good, except that...

Good suggestion. But I think I'm already doing that, unless there's something else I can be doing. Here's what I do:   I rip my CDs to FLACs, then add tags and album art using Swinsian. The music library folder is ordered alphabetically by artist. Each artist has a folder, inside which are...