well guys, sorry to say, if you blink, you'll miss it and it is PCB only. Today opc the proliferate and consummate designer of the popular 'the wire' diy headphone amp and power amp series announced a new design which is basically the BAL-SE wire on steroids and , with an instrumentation front...

Hi guys, wow very difficult to find information online about recabling these headphones, or confirmation of proper disassembly. cannot find a real link to the service manual anywhere, if indeed one exists. i have a set of these here for a balanced recable and before i go peeling off what appears...

Hi there Fellow crazy people, I just thought I would take the time to let those who dont know... know..that as has been murmured for some time, there is officially nolonger an NDA needed for working with the ESS sabre 9018/12 series dac chips. you can simply politely ask for the datasheet from...

Hi guys, i'm taking on my first DIY PCB of my own, starting pretty simple and just going to create a small PCB (possibly 2) for combining the output of my dac/amp, (transportable) and p[ower supply complete with sense lines and star ground so to the point, I need to find a fairly noob...

Hey Guys, dont know how many of you have already seen this info. but recently Via has announced the Envy USB 2.0 receiver/controller. this device allows 8 x 24bit/192khz streams, with i2c, i2s, spdif etc etc. its not a USB receiver that can be harnessed for audio as a result of doing data, its...

Ok well I had this idea of starting this thread a little while ago, but never quite got around to it. Lately with the quality of sound coming out of customs on the improve, there are stirrings happening. In both the JH|13 and ES3X threads I have noticed a trend starting, where people are...

who else here is excited by this release?? I for one am wrapped with all the features that are going to be added. Sure some of them should have been there to begin with (copy and paste for one, mms another), but things like full support for tethering have massive potential for music streaming...

OK guys, this post has eventuated because I have recently had a VERY unpleasant experience with another head-fier. He enlisted my services to get a cable made, I had told him my conditions and my expected schedule for delivery. I only included regular airmail as part of the price, which he was...

Today has been a very harrowing, confusing and aggravating day!! This morning I woke up, having finished installing Rockbox 3.1 on a newly DIYMODDED ipod 5.5G. I had also installed an after-market 120gb HD on it. I also have 2 other DIYMOD's here at the moment, one mine and one from another...

I'm posting this in the DIY section as well but I thought i'd post it in here as well. Like the title says. i'm making some cables for an upcoming LISA III still a little while off but i'm going to be ready for it when it arrives. i'm going to buy the Lisa III standard. and maybe later the...

Hi there, i'm building a VCAP dock for my DIYMOD and pico i've ordered some 3.3uf VCAPs absently when should've got 4.7uf to be safe. I cant find the imput impedance specs for the pico anywhere and have emailed justin about it with no response as yet. as long as the input impedance is...

anyone modded the line out on a RME hammerfall 9632. I remember seeing a while ago on here that someone had modded their HDSP 9632 with blackgate caps being one of the mods. I'm building a VCAP dock for my DIYMOD and i'm putting dock in, RCA in/out, minijack in/out; making it useful with anythng...

I have just heard a horrible story; noremedy has lost his SE530 and doesn't have any way of replacing them for a long time. tell me if i'm wrong but isn't there a really good sense of community here on head-fi?? he doesn't have any other portables like many of the members here, so its not as...

Hi all every day i'm dumbfounded by the amount of 'which IEM under $200' and 'which portable amp' threads that are posted. how many people here use the search button?? I mean I know that most of these can be accounted for by new members and I guess we cant be too hard on them, but there is a...

Hi there guys and gals; my pico is winging its way to me here in OZ as we speak; my primary sources will be an iPhone 3G and a DIYMODDED 5.5g ipod with blackgate LOD and gathering caps for a DIY VCAP type dock. I'm wondering if to get the best out of the pico/shures in this setup if it would be...