Does he WANT other headphones? Some people actually like bad sound.

I love Cowon (currently have the D2 and have had it for years) but I wish for something of truly high-capacity. I would gladly pay for a new player if Cowon started playing in the realm of the hi-cap iPods and such. Lossless audio takes up some room. Maybe SDXC will be the answer... Love the...

A broken half-pair of some horrible supra-aural Sony headphones I found in a soccer field as a small child. I was fascinated.

I heard a quite a bit of quality live classical music growing up. I would be surprised if the feel of the actual unamped voices and instruments of a live performance could be reproduced by any kind of equipment. VERY impressive.

Quote: Originally Posted by Ridleyguy The USB/DAC would bypass it. You can also order a USB/Sendstation, or equivalent for your iPod (as I am doing) to bypass the iPod's headphone jack, feed it to your DAC, and it should be as good or better than your computer. Hold up, are you...

Quote: Originally Posted by qusp hyeah I cant see an issue in floating the ground on a device that is designed to be run on batteries. in fact many audio enthusiasts do it with their home gear as a tweak anyway. also, do not use 96khz, the pico does not accept 96khz (that is why it...

Quote: Originally Posted by GreatDane You can send the Pico to me to test...I miss having one. But seriously, when I had a noise problem with my Pico, I believe it was Justin who suggested using a cheater plug. I was previously using a Meier Porta Corda (portable amp/USB DAC) and I...

Update: Back to being horrible, with pops, hissing and actual blank-outs in the sound. After playing for a while (not just being turned on, but actually playing music) some of the distortion goes away, oddly. I feel stupid because I realize I should have posted this in "computer audio"...

Primarily Media Player Classic, JetAudio and then a hodgepodge of others including Foobar, MediaMonkey, iTunes, WMP, Winamp etc. etc.

Quote: Originally Posted by GreatDane Do you have another computer to test the Pico with? With my laptop PC I needed to use a cheater plug for the power supply. This eliminates the ground. Your description may not match what my noise problem was. Just tried it with my desktop...

Hey guys, A couple hours ago I received my Pico amp/DAC in the mail. I plugged the DAC in and started listening to AKG K702s through Media Player Classic. All filters disabled and playing uncompressed audio FLACs. At first there was an intermittent hissing in one ear and then the other. Now...

Quote: Originally Posted by sainttoad Best of all, the blades in my clippers are cryo-treated, so they sound totally *amazing*. Those clippers had better be made with 99.9999% pure material or you might as well not get a haircut at all. I, for one, would rather go without. Too...

Which one is the woman?

Let me just start this by saying I am not an expert. I just made this decision recently myself, though, so I thought some of my input might be useful to you. I moved to open 'phones from various IEMS due to the fact that people say that open-styled headphones create less distortion, have a...

Quote: Originally Posted by kool bubba ice There are better choices for neutrality.. Pioneer 10/DT48/240DF, etc.. Yes, I wanted open 'phones this time around and those Pioneers... Well, I plan to pick them up eventually. The fact that they are from 1978 and still solid make them...