I'm currently using an old AV-710 chaintech as my transport to feed a digital signal via optical to my Parasound 1100HD DAC. Would my sound improve if I upgrade to something like an EMU 1212m or an ASUS Xonar card and use the coax output? Anyone here did something like this and noticed an...

Like the title says, would it be a bad idea to leave my DAC on all the time? Reason being is that I find that it sounds a little better after it has warmed up for an hour or so. Would I be shortening it's life significantly? 

I recently got one of those SendStation pocketdock things that allows you to utilize the ipod's line out since I wanted to forgo the whole cable thing   Well, the thing works fine, but to me the line-out sounds like crap (actually, in this case I think another 4 letter word would be more...

I was lucky enough to get a chance to spend a few days with these headphones after being impressed by them a few years back, and was just wondering how much these improve with amplification?    Reason being is that I only have a MF X-Can V2 to test them with right now with a somewhat...

Hey, I gave my brother a Creek amp a while ago and recently it has started acting up. It works for about a minute and then the power seems to cut out and the sound becomes very muffled and muted. Anyway, I opened the power supply (obh-2) thinking that it's the culprit and noticed one of...