http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/legendary/earbuds-time-to-change-the-status-quo   Apparently someone's trying to design an extremely modular, almost indestructible pair of headphones. gratuitous connectors aside, some aspects of the design are interesting - almost all the cables are...

Just something i've been curious about. Most of the knowledge i have of circuits i have is in the DC domain, so any EEEs please forgive any gross errors i make. In addition, for the most part, i'm a full sized headphone user, who has never really needed to use one of these devices   As i...

Until recently i've been using ASIO since my original 'good' music source - the mbox2 - was only really usable with ASIO for playing music, and i've was using XP. I later switched to a newer fastrack 2 (the small model with the knobs on top) which does usbaudio like many DACs, and has a...

  Apparently new cars have soya based wireing insulation which rabbits seem to have a taste for -I wonder if they make garden hose out of the same material ;p

I'm currently sourcing out parts for a amp, and am pondering making a few mods - one of the issues with the design, apparently is a large DC offset on being switched on, and i was told by someone (who knows just about enough electronics to be dangerous) that a coupling capasitor might be a good...

I'm considering building a Szkeres amp, and am currently looking up what i'll need. Apparently the original design used the IRF510, which is out of production, but the instructions/addidium suggests that the IRF610 is a suitable replacement - has anyone built the amp with one, and do i need to...

So far, nearly all of my headphones have been the closed sort - two creatives which i forget the name of, two sennheisers (eh 150, and HD202) and my current, and very well loved ATH m50s. And well, i'm pondering getting something open, and well different from what i'm used to in one to two...

M Audio sells two versions of this, with roughly equal specifications for the home recording crowd. I've used an mbox2 for a while, and my dad wanted this for a portable setup. The Fastrack, or Fastrack 2 is a revised model with a few design improvements - such as moving all the outputs to the...

I do a fair amount of recording of indian classical music for my mom, and i use a mbox2/shure sm57 combo for it. I figured i'd mess around with it and try to get it to work as a DAC/headphone amp. I don't have any 'proper' gear to compare it with, so i'll be comparing it to the output of the...

I have an mbox2 i've gotten working off my laptop with foobar 2000, which i use for various things. Its got a pair of 1/4 inch mono jacks labelled "monitors" which i believe are meant for powered speakers - they work decently enough for headphones with a suitable adaptor should i need a second...

I've been wondering this a while- unless you have absolute bargain basement headphones (i've seen ones which had 2 single strands per earpiece... granted these were free with the incredibly cheap and nearly useless 32 mb mp3 player i use when testing connections), your ground and signal cable...

I do a fair amount of recording of indian classical music for my mom, and i use a mbox2/shure sm57 combo for it. I figured i'd mess around with it and try to get it to work as a DAC/headphone amp. I don't have any 'proper' gear to compare it with, so i'll be comparing it to the output of the...