Carbon nanotube cables, coming soon to an overpriced audio equipment store near you! I know the article is talking about using them for extremely short interconnects on chips and so forth, but look for audiophile cables based on this technology at some point in the future. Regardless of...

I liked their highly regarded last album, Alligator, but this one is an impressive progression of their brand of alternative/"independent" rock. if you think music these days pretty much sucks and have been burned by the most of the bands du jour of the past 5 years, give this one a try, you...

I don't really care about the announcement, but I'm curious to know when Patrick82 is going to internally re-wire his components with it.

I'm just curious how people here are dealing with the ridiculous amount of clipping that seems to be taking place in just about every CD produced in the last five years or so. I never really paid much attention to it until I heard an egregious case or two, and then I began hearing it all the...

So who is ready for this upgrade? Seems like a bargain!

After upgrading the fuses in my amp (PS Audio GCC-250) and noticing a slight improvement, I thought I'd give it a try with my DAC. So I ordered a Critical Link fuse from PS Audio (which is made by a German company called AHP) for my Lavry DA10. I received it and immediately installed it last...

I was browsing the PS Audio forums and came across an interesting post from Paul McGowan (of PS Audio), in response to a question about why their new DAC doesn't have an AES/EBU input. Here's the relevant part: Quote: In hindsight, we didn't include the AESEBU for two reasons: not...

From a comparison of USB cables (between my computer and M-Audio Audiophile USB) made on another forum: Honestly, I was not expecting there to be any difference between my current USB cable (a nice 7' Belkin gold, or something like that) and the new 7' Monster Ultimate USB cable that arrived...

I finally picked up a Lavry DA10 to compare to my current DAC, an almost-new silver Benchmark DAC1. My first test was to perform my patented TRIPLE BLIND TEST. I call it the Triple Blind Test because my wife (who happens to have pretty sensitive ears) is the subject, and not only does she not...

This is actually a pretty old device, but I only recently became aware of it. It certainly looks interesting. It receives data via ethernet (asynchronous, I assume, into a bufffer) from the PC, which has a driver on it that makes any application think you have a regular sound card. Questions...

I'm just curious how some of the members here are driving two amps (one for headphones, one for speakers) from the same source that has one output (e.g. Lavry DAC)? Currently I'm using a Benchmark DAC1 as a source, which has two outputs...so I send the balanced output to my headphone amp, and...

"Tom Dowd & the Language of Music" is an amazing documentary that anyone who is interested in music production and jazz, rock, or soul needs to see. There are several great scenes in the film, including a part where he is manually mixing Layla (Derek and the Dominoes) that is simply amazing...

The link to this story is on CNN's front page right now.

I was having problems with game audio with my E-MU 1212M so I decided to give an M-Audio Audiophile USB a try. My reasoning was: - I've heard from various sources that an externally-powered digital output is better than one originating from a computer. I've also heard that the E-MU's digital...

USB input means zero jitter (the data is asynchronous) and no CD read errors (since the data is coming from a hard drive, most likely). With this (or their more expensive version which has been out for awhile), a computer should now be inarguably the ultimate transport (well...assuming the DAC...

Are now pictured on the Moon Audio web site, fyi. Check them out at the bottom of this page.

This looks like it could be a great DAC and an even better soundcard: Aqvox USB 2 DA Has anybody heard one?

Wow...if you like a very well played acoustic guitar, the number one album to pick up on your list should be Willy Porter's High Wire Live. It's been a long time since a guitarist really impressed me, but this guy sure did. And the songs are good too (good original material, and he has a...

I finally picked up a coaxial cable for my Benchmark DAC1 and was able to test it side-by-side against my eBay (SonicWave) glass toslink cable. My source, an E-MU 1212M, makes this very simple when combined with a DAC1...the 1212M has both outputs active at the same time (and even gives the...

Any word on third-party cables for the Qualia headphones? I ask for two reasons: 1) the microphonics on the Qualia cable are annoying (although I'm getting better at finding ways to avoid it). 2) I'm somewhat interested in the possibility of a balanced cable (for use with either my DAC1 or...

I've been very happy with my home headphone system (E-Mu 1212M, Benchmark DAC1, Singlepower MPX3, Senn HD650, with fancy cables and interconnects and various other high-end options) and have decided its time to upgrade the system I use at work (where I listen to quite a bit of music on my...

I've got some friends who want me to join them on Teamspeak while playing a couple of games, which requires that I hook-up a microphone to my 1212M (the only sound card in my system...which is working just fine for games like Doom 3, Far Cry, and Half Life 2, by the way). The problem is, my...

It looks like a few of us got our amps on friday. My MPX3 took awhile due to various changes and upgrades throughout the ordering process (order started as a PPX3-6SN7 in late May). My upgrades are: Solen Stage 3 caps Jensen Paper-In-Oil caps I added 2 Sylvania VT-231s and 1 Ken-Rad...

I'm doing quite a bit with my 1212M: 1) optical digital out to Benchmark DAC1 2) optical digital in from on-board sound chip (used for Windows/Game sound) 3) ASIO in from Foobar2000 for music. 4) Soon, I will probably be using the analog L/R input on the 1212M for sound from a TV card...

Has anyone tried playing around with Foobar2000's Equalizer (in the DSP section) to optimize their headphone setup? I was just reading a thread in another sub-forum about a digital equalizer component (Behringer's DEQ2496) and realized those of us using a computer as our source have a similar...