Arghhh! I'm trying to get WinAmp to play 24/96 audio on my Audiophile 2496, but looking at the Audiophile's control panel, the sample rate drops from 96 -> 44 every time I start playing music. I remember a long time ago, I found a setting buried somewhere that caused Windows to automatically...

Is it better to place amplifiers closer to the speakers and run longer IC's or use shorter IC's with longer speaker wire? I guess it's less of an issue with stereo speakers since they're usually placed close to the source, but what about surround speakers? What about balanced vs. unbalanced...

I was flipping through the specs for a Denon 5803 and noticed that they have more DACs than output channels (16 DACS for 8 channels). Later on, they say that they put 2 DACs per channel in "differential mode" or optionally 4 DACS per channel in "dual-differential mode". With all the...

Now that Zanth has confirmed that I'm not going crazy I've noticed in several of my CDs, a faint hight pitched whine whenever the vocals come on. The sound is like the high pitched CRT whine you hear from monitors and televisions. So far, I've noticed it only on CDs that have choral music...

I'd like to run a digital line from my computer to my surround receiver. To my dismay, I discovered that my Santa Cruz doesn't support output (analog or digital) of 24/96 audio. I also want to free up the VersaJack (tm) so I can run 5.1 analog to my system for games as well. So, I was...

With so many veteran Ety owners here, I was wondering if anybody has any good tips/tricks for minimizing the rubbing cable noises on a set of Etys?

I recently paid a visit to my local audio shop in search of replacements for my HD600 stock cables (gold plugs w/ 1/4" connector). The replacements I found were cheap looking non-gold plated ones with a straight 1/8" connector with the official Sennheiser label. Then I looked at Headroom and saw...

Now that I'm a proud new owner of a set of HD600's I'm starting to save my pennies for a portable amp for my portable CD player. Headroom's Airbag + Airhead combo looks promising but I'm worried that the 1/4" plug and required 1/8" adapter might be too big to fit in the Airbag. Anybody have...