**Hifiman HE-400 Impressions and Discussion Thread** - Page 389

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Originally Posted by TMRaven 

iTunes does support 24 bit.  Supporting flac is no big deal, just convert into wav or other lossless formats.

Sure but why not just use a more convenient player? Many support FLAC natively or via extensions that are easy to download. Apple forces you to either convert to WAV or use their ALAC...

I use foobar2000 with the HiFoo skin, and organize my library manually via folders. No complaints really.

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oh dude we use the same interface!

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Originally Posted by brokenthumb 

I'll throw my Foobar setup out there also.  These are my two views I use in Foobar.  The first is all out full screen, the second is my minimal view.  I really like the waveform seekbar I can see how bad songs are brickwalled when I play them.

 

 

I use OSX for the most part and only Windows for gaming.  I also don't download anything that's Flac, as the majority of my songs are ripped from CDs.  I see no reason to use anything other than iTunes.

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Originally Posted by jerg 

 

oh dude we use the same interface!

 

Nice!

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Originally Posted by Mad Lust Envy 


I'll bite. How do I get that interface?

http://br3tt.deviantart.com/gallery/29497701#/d41l5mf

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Originally Posted by Mad Lust Envy 


I'll bite. How do I get that interface?

I followed these instructions.

http://br3tt.deviantart.com/art/HiFoo-Installation-Notes-244713051

Edit: lol Jerg beat me to it.

I generally organize all my music manually by folder and use mp3tag for file details and album art.  I used winamp for a long time, but recently gave songbird a try when I re-installed windows.  Not really liking it as much as winamp, but I think I'll give Foobar a try today.  HiFoo looks nice, I'll have to add that as well.

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Originally Posted by conquerator2 

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Originally Posted by TMRaven 

iTunes does support 24 bit.  Supporting flac is no big deal, just convert into wav or other lossless formats.

Sure but why not just use a more convenient player? Many support FLAC natively or via extensions that are easy to download. Apple forces you to either convert to WAV or use their ALAC...

I use iTunes as it is a 'system' for me - I have all my CDs ripped in lossless format, and use it it on my iPhone/iPad or from my PC here in my office. For listening in my main listening room, I use wireless home sharing to have all my music avaialble via iPad/iPhone anywhere in the house, - and with my iPad I use the CCK>Schiit Modi which works really well.

The Windows version on my PC is definitely not the greatest interface, but I'm not too anal about it and for the devices I have it works pretty good.

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Originally Posted by sbtruitt 

I use iTunes as it is a 'system' for me - I have all my CDs ripped in lossless format, and use it it on my iPhone/iPad or from my PC here in my office. For listening in my main listening room, I use wireless home sharing to have all my music avaialble via iPad/iPhone anywhere in the house, - and with my iPad I use the CCK>Schiit Modi which works really well.

 

The Windows version on my PC is definitely not the greatest interface, but I'm not too anal about it and for the devices I have it works pretty good.

Fair enough, if it works well for you everyone is happy  Cheers!

This is what I do on Foobar ... very minimal, mostly because I have over a terabyte of music and I need quick access to all of it. Always make sure I set my folder hiearchy to be artist > album > songs. I always rename every file in my collection to fit a proper scheme (track number track title), etc.

I really, truly hate the skinning process for Foobar. Trying to install one can be a headache, switching to another is even more of a headache, making your own is a nightmare and finding one that isn't totally counter-intuitive in ever way is a chore. That being said, it handles a ton of music well (WMP can't), has tons of plugins and doesn't lock you into its own user environment like a certain company (Apple/iTunes), doesn't force you to use idiotic file types (ALAC) and has stood the test of time. Have nothing against Winamp or most of the others, though.

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Originally Posted by chewy4 

There's a major dip in most people's hearing around 9kHz. It's the quietest frequency below 15kHz aside from the bass. That's probably why so many headphones have a peak right there.

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Originally Posted by sbtruitt 


Yeah, our ears don't hear the same frequencies proportionately thoughout the audible range:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-loudness_contour
There a paragraph on headphones in that which is interesting.

That is all interesting... when I was following the EQ thread and using sinegen - I had a real hot spot at 9.1k and EQ'ing that down a bit really helps with sibilance.

u2 :)  - I've been surprised using the iPad>Modi DAC sounds so good, I've blind A/B'd it with the original CD and could tell no difference.

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Originally Posted by brokenthumb 

 

I followed these instructions.

 

 

http://br3tt.deviantart.com/art/HiFoo-Installation-Notes-244713051

 

Edit: lol Jerg beat me to it.

I can't get that theme to work following those instructions. I get to the step where it tells you to select columns UI but it only shows the default columns UI when I select it, the HiFoo one is nowhere to be found.