I've been away from head-fi for a while after selling all my gear, i'm now after a budget set of IEM's and have found lot's of praise for the VSD1's by vsonic.   I'm trying to work out which version to buy, i've heard a few people mention slight sibilance in one, whereas the 'S' version has a...

I've been reading into all this hype recently about the original T-Amp and it's souped up derivatives using the Tripath TA2024 chip and the reviews gushing praise so with a little money ready to waste i went out and bought a chinese variant (still using the TA2024). Now i always go into...

Thinking about buying a valve headphone amp, the output is specified at 300-600ohms, the headphones i'm intending to use with this thing range from 32-75ohms ...what kind of problems or conflicts will this cause me? Any help is appreciated!

Just had an instant urge to try this mod after reading about it and after some ham-handed soldering with questionable results i managed to create a cable with two 75 ohm metal film resistors in place on the left and right channel. After a quick test everything seems to be connected fine, i've...

I've just bought a pair of speakers from ebay without a demo, my main concern was that they wouldn't fit my preferred sound signature (which i'm very picky about) ...after 5 minutes use i came to the conclusion that they were fine ...pretty much neutral to what i'm used to. Then i start...

I'm thinking about getting a pair of DT-880's after hearing all the praise from different members who have them. A few things concern me so if i could get some info about them frst that would be great. 1. Would it be a waste of time trying to drive them with...

I've recently bought a 0404 as an upgrade to an Audigy 2, i've noticed this problem recently but haven't done much about about it. While using media player classic (with the K-lite codec pack) audio files had a slight pop noise every 10 seconds or so, hardly noiceable but then whilst using the...

i'm considering buying a new set of cans and have gone through pretty much all of my options (within my budget of course) and now have my eyes set on the hd600's. I've looked for a few reviews and heard that they are dark and have rolled of treble, which isn't really the sort of sound i look...

I'm really intrigued by hi definition audio and have a card that will support it, i really want to listen to something higher than 44khz and see if it makes a difference. Anyone know where i can download samples or anything of that nature? (i've managed to find a 32bit 96Khz mono file with some...

Just wondering what would be better of the 2 (just found out about the 565's and though it could possibly be the better option for me). This will hopefully be my first upgrade (from hp890's which have served me very well and have been great as an entry pair of 'phones ) what sort of...

just got them shipped from America, just wondering how much of a difference there is after they've been broken in? My main concern is detail and treble extension, i have a pair of cheapo panasonics that are far more detailed and have better treble so can anyone reassure me that they will...

I need to buy some earphone but i havn't had any real listening experience with any apart from ultra-cheapo ones so i have no real idea on how much i should spend, i'm looking at the shure e2c's, i've read some good things and some pretty negative things about them, most saying that they are...

I've recently bought an Audigy 2 value, a Cambridge audio amp, 2 stand mount speakers and a 10" subwoofer, heres my problem. The Audigy 2 has 3 line outs, technically i have a 2.1 setup so i'd like to use the 1st and 3rd line out, when it's set to 2.1 the subwoofer line out doesn't work (i'm...

When i write CD's there is a certain amount of distortion during dynamic songs. I've used different types of CD's and the problem has been either really bad or hardly noticable, on the latest ones i bought i thought it had been fixed but after listening carefully i can still hear it. The...

I've been doing a bit of maintenance on my computer like taking the case off and getting any dust out. I took all the PCI cards out, including the soundcard so i could get better access but now that i've put it all back kernal streaming won't work in Foobar for some reason. It works with...

Can someone give me an idea of the difference between 44.1Khz and 96Khz because i'm considering buying a Chaintech AV-710 and want to know what i'll be getting. For some reason to me it seems hard to imagine sound above 44.1 Khz and it seems pretty hard to improve upon but the difference between...

Just something i'm confused about with Foobar. I play an album in windows media player and the songs are all above 300kbits/second (they vary from song to song but are consistently quite high) but when i play them in Foobar the songs are around 150Kbps for some reason. Any idea's why it's like...

I'm really new to this so i'm looking for some help on a few things. I'm about to buy a pair of Sennheiser HD 555's and will be using my computer as the source. I have an onboard nvidia soundstorm and a soundblaster (not great, i know but it'll have to do for the minute). The soundstorm has an...