Thanks to everyone for replies. Well everyone seems to have their own preferences. The Denon seem interesting and there would be option of 5000 or 7000 models. Is there a significant difference in sound quality?

Hi,   I'm hoping someone could give me advice on a closed headphone to use at the office. I currently use HD-800 at home and I have a pair of old HD-650 phones. I would use them at work, but they "spit" too much sound out. If I listen to them, my co-workers around the same table can even...

Hey! I have Corda Aria headphone amp which comes with an USB DAC. It worked fine in XP but now I upgraded to Vista 64bit and it wont work. It asks for driver disk which there isn't of course and it can't find any driver so it wont work. Have anyone of you had similiar problems with Vista...

Quote: Originally Posted by FenderP ATRAC3+ at 256k sounds as good as 320k MP3. Did a few comparisons. That's the way I'd go. Seems like it only supports 256k. I made 320k atrac files with sonicstage, now it is converting them when transfering. What a waste...

Hi! I have a Sony HD3 player and was wondering which one is better format to use, Atrac3 or mp3? I want maximum sound quality. I'm using 320k bitrate. If mp3 then what codec?

Quote: Originally Posted by humanflyz SACDs use 24bit, and I can hear a very noticeable difference between it and regular CDs that use 16bit. Actually, SACDs are 1-bit! But they have a sample rate that is about one million. They don't use PCM format like CDs do. Of course you...

This is great news. I bought the Porta Corda III USB for work to use as a soundcard and headphone amp. And I love it! Even when my Philips SBC-HP1000 phones fell on the floor and broke and I had to use my old JVC crap phones it made them sound decent. Great dynamics from such a small amp and...

This player is suppposed to support WAV-format. But why can't I tranfer wav-files to it? Sonicstage allways converts them to Atrac3+ 64kbs format. I changed options that it should ask if it can't transfer. But no it still converts. I can change the conversion to 320kbs or to MP3 but WAV won't go...

I just bought a Porta Corda III Usb. Main use will be as a combined USB soundcard and headphone amp at work. Couldn't stand sound directly from the motherboard integrated soundcard. The sound improved a lot with the corda! Very pleased! But I also tested it with my friends iPod Shuffle, with...

Quote: Originally Posted by slwiser If you go to Ebay you can pick up an iHP-120 or iHP-140 which does WAV and with the Rockbox open source firmware it will do lossless, gapless files out of its optical out into a DAC which provides very good sound. This is what I did and as my sig...

Quote: Originally Posted by blessingx Sound quality is difficult to qualify unless we're talking portables on different levels, which for the major players I'd argue we're not. Do you prefer a more dynamic or neutral sound? Do you expect to use an amp (thus best if there is a line-out)...