I have a pair of old Altec Lansing iM716 (I think a rebrand of something by Etymotic). They were sold used to me with a broken cable, and they went through four more cables before I lost them. I've found them again in a drawer today without a cable, so I soldered one on and tested them.   And...

While digging in some old boxes I found my old CD/MP3 player, from way back before I bought my first serious DAP (a Creative Zen USB2 that changed my life). It’s a Samsung MCD-SM55. For the sake of nostalgia I burned a couple of CDRWs and I’ve set it up with a couple of amplified speakers that I...

I've been using a pair of old CX300s as my main 'phones for years now, going through several cables, until during the last cable replacement the solder joints on the tiny leads going down to one of the coils failed and I was unable to restore contact. Result: dead headphones.   Now, before I...

I have a pair of CX300, old model, that I use constantly. They're by far my favourite 'phones, having beat in my personal graduation far more expensive ones - so far, they're the only ones that have provided the sound I want without the need to use the equalizer. Problem is, I'm not what you'd...

I may be able to acquire the player in the title (capacity: 32 gigs), and its 'phones I already have (the noise canceling is made to work on this player). The player has a single line on the screen from having had its glass slightly cracked, but everything works fine. Now, I have no use for...

You're right, the seller does in fact have that player. He was obviously unaware that the 'phones were meant for that and that alone.   So, what do I do now? I really like the noise-canceling thing, but since the pod of the normal NC33s is one with the cable I can't hope to find one bare on...

Sorry about bumping, but the microSD card is here and I need an answer...

I've been sold a pair of the titular headphones. I wasn't told they had a noise canceling feature, and was expecting normal 'phones; I was therefore surprised at seeing the 5-pole jack. However, I was not sold the pod that does the noise-canceling calculations and has the standard 3-pole jack...

A friend has just bought an Acer subnotebook and has the same problem. The store told her to burn her own restore disc using the preinstalled app, but expect the resulting restore disc to be mated to the one computer it came from. There's also a hidden 12GB partition on the disk. I had a quick...

I've bought a new smartphone (a Nokia 5230, for the record), and in the interest of reducing the amount of clutter I cart around in my pockets I've decided to get a 16GB microSD card for it and use it as my main music player. My intention is to use low-bitrate files (Ogg quality 1 or equivalent)...

It's a Gemei 717LE: http://www.gemeitech.com/en/Products.asp?id=2&Act=2 (click on "performance" to get the specs)   It supports MP3, WMA, WAV, APE and FLAC. I thought it supported ogg too (usually Chinese players do, even when their product pages don't list the format), but it turns out it...

Not worth bothering with? So it isn't more efficient than mp3 at all?

My hearing is good for some things, but not for others. For isntance, I can't for the life of me hear the difference between mp3/320 and mp3/128. Some would call me hearing-dumb, but I consider it a blessing, because it allows me to recompress my music in ogg/80/96 and enjoy it just as I would...

I've seen these on sale over at DX. According to this they look like the real deal - small gap in the 'phones, proper packaging, no cable-wrap doodad. Would you say they are original? I'm always in need of cheap canalphones to give to unenlightened friends who use those awful earbuds, but the...

So I've tossed my iM716's cable entirely, and am in the process of replacing it with one from a generic pair of 'phones. The connections at the earbuds are done, now I'm about to solder the wire to the jack, which is where I intend to put the resistors. And here is my question: do the...