Well, it depends on your criteria I suppose.  Any of the HTC phones that are going to get Ice Cream Sandwich soon (or those already with ICS) will have the ability to pass digital out USB to a USB dac/amp.  So, for instance, my HTC Sensation will be able to be paired with a fiio e7 or ibasso d7...

Tough.     In no particular order:   Paul Simon - Rhythm of the Saints (everyone was giving Graceland all the love and I think this is equally great plus it's a toofer Paul Simon AND Olodum, two of my favorite) Nirvana - Unplugged (probably best album of the 90s IMHO) Miles Davis -...

Claude Debussy - Suite Bergamasque.  The third movement Claire de Lune is probably overplayed, but the rest of the suite is not and it is a wonderfully relaxing and enchanting piece. 

I use MOG and I love it!  I prefer it to spotify actually.  Never tried Rdio, so I cannot tell you how it compares.  The one thing I really like about MOG is the Radio feature.  So you can cue up a bunch of music, but at the end of the music cue is a a Radio that will play either 100% of the...

I love LOVE Gypsy Kings.  It is spanish guitar.  Very fun, very romantic and I think it hits all your requirements.  Check out their rendition of "I Did It My Way"

Subscribed :)   Also, as a sort of jazz amateur, when I was in college I picked up a copy of John Coltrane's Blue Train and Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, just because the covers looked the most like a jazz cover should look.  Who would have ever known that I ended up picking up one of the...

Using Sabayon Linux x64 and e7 on a Sony Vaio VPCSB.  Works flawlessly, no configuration required, sounds great.

I have a HTC Sensation 4G.  As a source it's ok, but just as a FYI, HTC will be updating MANY phones very soon to Ice Cream Sandwich which brings, among other improvements, USB LINE OUT DOCK capability!  So now you can pair your cell with a portable dac/amp and that should improve sound quality...

Sorry if I'm resurrecting an old thread here, but I have a question:  Why can't you simply change the default sample rate in PulseAudio to 48000 Hz?   It's a fairly trivial process:  just change the /home/$USER/.pulse/daemon.conf file.   Easy to follow instructions can be found...

Just like to say that this thread got me signed up for MOG and MY GOOD GOD it's fantastic!  It's like Spotify with Pandora radio streams bolted on, but WAIT THERE'S MORE!  The radio streams can be controlled so you can choose if the radio stream is all one artist/album/genre or how much other...

Yes, indeed.  I think I heard a similar effect in a Louis Armstrong recording, right before he plays he tests the keys on his trumpet and you can hear the keys lightly hitting (tap, tap, tap, tap).  I am almost certain I heard it.  I was a classical musician when I was in high school (playing...

Thanks!  I figured that Gould must be notorious for this (classical enthusiasts are somewhat fanatical and I could imagine that this was a well-known habit of his considering how famous he is), it's simply I have never read up too much about performance artists yet.  I also just heard him...

So listening to one of my favorite classical recordings at work today, Glenn Gould -- Bach - Goldberg Variations (1955).   This is supposedly one of the standout, shockwave, ultimate recordings of piano soloist performances ever produced.  I always loved it, but then today I discovered...

Well head-fiers, as a newbie to high quality audio, I am apparently an old hand at high quality shaving.    I use a Le Grelot Thiers Issard straight razor with cocobolo scales     Generally I use Mitchell's Wool Fat shaving soap, as honestly, you just can't get a better shaving...