First time at CanJam. A friend and I hit up the event on Saturday and came back with the following impressions: The Good: Dan Wright had the best rig hands down with the HiFiMan HE1000 fed into his amp, the HA300 and a tube modded Oppo 205 with an outboard PSU serving as the DAC. Very clean...

Ha! It's good to see some of the OG crew lurking around here. It's amazing to see how far portable audio has come compared to when many of us first joined head-fi in 2001-2002. I still have my Grado SR60's and Sony 7506's that I purchased back in 2001 and they still work just fine, although I...

Back when kelly, grinch, Audio&Me were causing all kinds of trouble on head-fi.  I went along for the ride because we were unhappy with the changes being adopted around here at the time.  I'm guessing 2003?     I've calmed down a lot since then ;-)

Oh wow! Hey Al!    Man, I remember when you came over to upgrade my old battleaxe desktop pc, lol.  Congrats!

Put me down, for once, I can definitely make it.  Looking forward to trying out some hi-rez players (including the pono).  I'll bring my rockboxed iPod Classic 160gb (7th gen) along with my Sony 7506's and Grado SR60's.  That's all I got left nowadays :-|

Long time head-fier here.  After reading up on this thread and googling around a bit I finally bit the bullet and installed rockbox on my iPod Classic.  Best decision I ever made!  I was ready to sell my Classic 7G - 160gb off.  I hate iTunes with a passion, made my album list a complete...

Hey guys,            I visited a genius bar and got nothing but "we can replace it for $75" since it's about two weeks outside of the warranty (go figure).  I declined since they only give a 90 day warranty on replacement units.  So, now what? Can this damn thing be fixed?  I have a feeling...

wow, I wonder what ever happened to ken/highwaystar, really nice guy.  

I'll definitely go!  

Quote:   Personally, I think both formats are dying.  SACD will never catch on thanks to Sony and it's stranglehold on the technology behind SACD.  Plus, it doesn't help that SACD media is largely composed of Jazz, Classic and Classic Rock offerings only.   Based on info in the Tom...

Cool, thanks for the rec.  I have that in my amazon wishlist.  And a few other EJ sacd's.  I'm trying to grab anything of interest while it's still affordable.  Seems like any sacd/dvd-a's that go OOP suddenly spike in price in the Market Place.     I also received most of the discs that I...

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Hi Guys and Gals,             Looking through the search engine, looks like there hasn't been a thread on Hi-rez audio in years.  I owned several SACD's since 2005 that collected dust before getting my speaker rig in order recently and now I can finally enjoy Multi-channel music discs...

Quote:   DM is an incredibly loud, distorted mess.  I guess they decided to dial the volume to 11.  The Guitar Heroes rip of DM sounds a lot better.  

I'm sure you've read it before if you've done some research on SSD, my desktop boots up in 15 seconds with my Kingston SSD.  It's beautiful.  I've also re-imaged it with Win 7 in 15 minutes.   IMHO, SSD prices have dropped sufficiently to buy one to upgrade from a standard HDD.  Assuming...