This is the datasheet for the System On A Chip that drives the Clip - it's the amp, the DAC, video decoder, and the general purpose CPU. And much. much more  - it's fascinating how much this one gizmo (derived from the classic ARM CPU design that you find everywhere now) does:  ...

It's tempting to carefully clean tips and keep them going forever, but         I really don't want to imagine what the bill could be for this if you live in the US and have the wrong health insurance. Anyway, I don't use my HF5s much, but I'm ordering new tips for them.

I've been intrigued by seeing several tests where lossy recordings, often at moderate bitrates, do better than lossless versions in testing, and I wonder if I've stumbled on an explanation:           My thought is that lossy recordings are removing high frequency information that...

In summary: iPod owners - and "Creatives" who work in iSores - sorry, Apple Stores - get excited because they think they have discovered a way of setting a 10 band equalizer on the iPod. Then someone gets them to try an extreme setting and they realize it doesn't work and they have been hearing...

  http://rmaa.elektrokrishna.com/Comparisons/32%20Ohm%20Multi-Armature%20-%20Cowon%20J3%2C%20Sansa%20Clip%2B%2C%20Sony%20A845%2C%20Hifiman%20HM-801.htm   For example, you don't need to see anything other than this graph to say "Hell no!" to the idea of paying $800 for an HM801.

  All hail the New Jersey wine industry!

From the cabley Heart Of Darkness:    

As everyone who read George Orwell knows, language shapes - or mis-shapes - thought. Hi-fi marketing people aren't fools and read 1984 at school like the rest of us and so they invented, pruned and promoted a pretentious, meaningless and confusing vocabulary guaranteed to bewilder and confuse...

For anyone who has the 25s, what IEMs have you heard that remind you most of them?   To quote ljokerl's review, I'm looking for IEMs that are     I'm open to suggestions at all price ranges, but much more likely to buy below $150. (I've had some great JVCs and Phillips around $25 in...

I've googled, but the people who review tablets seem very uninterested in this! SQ often means how the external speakers sound, and no tests to see whether an amp is up to driving more than commodity IEMs. I'd be grateful to know peoples experiences, especially of the latest generation of...

The thread title is pretty much the question. How much would I have to spend (and of course on what) so that my Netbook would sound obviously better - preferably jaw droppingly better - than my J3? Phones can be assumed to be good portable on or over ears, or IEMs, as you prefer. Music - say...

I'm one of those people - like Katun - who REALLY like the sound the 67 makes. More than my Ety HF5s in my case. This is probably a pointless and masochistic question, as well as an expensive one, but given the above - and that I'm using a Cowon J3 and listening mostly to FLAC high bit rate Ogg...

Hi! I'm having to parent sit (the old guy is pretty sick) and I need a pair of IEMs with ***great*** isolation so that I 1. Can get some work done 2. Can keep out the sound of TV news played 18 hours a day 3. Don't throw the TV out of the window 4. Don't commit patricide and end up on...