I want headphones that make the music I listen to sound good to me. ...too much to ask for?

I'd love my 0404 if it worked with foobar2000/Windows Vista better. Using ASIO output, the drivers crash pretty regularly, usually when I advance to the next track. Windows Vista (x64) throws up a DEP error in CTASIO. There is no known fix, and Creative aren't exactly prioritizing fixing this...

I've never seen an IDE cable with a twist in it. You definitely shouldn't use it. Floppy drive cables have twists in them. A quick google also shows that Toshiba 1.8" drive's ZIF connectors are wired differently than other 1.8" drives, make sure you get the correct adapter. The USB adapter...

I can't see myself rebuying many titles in HD, exceptions for LoTR and a few others. However, I absolutely refuse to spend a single penny on anything HD until there is a firm winner (ie: somebody is going to have to throw in the towel) in this ridiculous "HD war". And if one is never...

In WinXP if you are not using ASIO or KS output you are not bypassing the Windows kmixer. This will cause all your audio to be resampled to 48kHz using kmixer's inferior algorithms, and may be the cause of the difference you are hearing. KS is supposed to cut off all other programs (including...

Quote: Originally Posted by Jon L If I have to use an external encoder, I have to search for the folder containing the songs in question, open it up, point the conversion to DAP, etc. I've never had to do that. I just select the songs from the playlist, and go through the convert...

Put this together a couple weeks ago. Waiting on cheap Penryn quad cores to become available, hence the cheap processor that currently lives in the system. The overclock was acheived with stock cooling and voltages. CPU: E2140 @ 3.0GHz RAM: 4x1GB OCZ Platinum MOBO: Abit IP35 PRO HDD...

Check RareWares.org for LAME binaries.

Quote: Originally Posted by Behemot At least with Creative you know what you are buying That all depends on WHAT you know. Quote: I have been buying Creative since 90s - they specialize in digital sound - ZEN mp3 players, PC speakers and sound cards and I was never...

Quote: Originally Posted by thebob Ok I'm gonna bite. <blah blah blah useless comments> Should have bit your tongue instead. Really, what's the use in commenting on a 2+ year old thread? Of course the information in the thread doesn't reflect the current status. ITS TWO YEARS...

Quote: Originally Posted by TheVinylRipper If you want to save yourself the effort of reripping everything in case of a hard drive crash it would probably be best to run a RAID 0 setup with two identical drives. That would be RAID 1 if you want to have fault tolerant data storage.

Okay, but you all have to promise not to laugh. CPU: AMD Athlon XP-M 2400+ @ 2.0GHz MOBO: Abit AN7 RAM: 1GB Ram (Corsair TwinX XMS) GFX: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro HDD: 160GB system, 320GB storage SND: E-MU 0404 OS: Windows 2000 Professional I'll be upgrading in the next two weeks...

Check out AVS Forums : LINK. They have tons of info on LCD displays.

BlueJeansCable.com. Quality cables, no BS marked-up pricing, fast shipping... You can't lose. I'm using their speaker cables for my XR57 to Monitor Audio B2s, and their digital coax for Emu 0404 to XR57. Of course there are plenty of other options out there for pricier cables if BJCs don't...

Quote: Originally Posted by zhopudey Actually, I have to try my soundcard with an active preamp. I'm trying to borrow one. Since you've already tried your rig going direct from the soundcard to amp (bypassing the passive preamp), and still encountered the same weak bass problem...

Quote: Originally Posted by zhopudey Ohh damn! I got some bass when I stood in the corner! You should have discovered this when panning the audio hard left and right. With the sound coming from one speaker, there's virtually zero chance that you'd still be sitting in a node that...

Quote: Originally Posted by Nike T Is it safe to download from there, no viruses or spyware or something? It's a music file, it cannot contain a virus/trojan/spyware that could harm your system.

Quote: Originally Posted by babypsycho So if I use stereo amp it wouldn't be good enough or it wouldn't work at all? or would I get no difference at all in sound quality from upgrading my sound card if I am going from PC -> soundcard -> stereo amp AC3 passthrough is only...

Quote: Originally Posted by babypsycho What do you mean by dedicated head amp ? He's refering to a stand-alone headphone amplifier, such as you'd find from HeadRoom or Meier Audio. Quote: Originally Posted by maarek99 Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think the...

The 0404 PCI doesn't pass-through AC3 encoded signals. Doesn't have Vista drivers yet. 0404 and 0202 USB were supposed to have beta Vista drivers available in the 2nd quarter of 2007, we're now two months into the 3rd quarter, and have seen nothing. I'm dumping my 0404 as soon as I build a...

Quote: Originally Posted by JeffL This is good news, but the 1.0.14 drivers don't contain the emu10k1-fpga module, even though they say they do. False advertising, anyone? If you read the ALSA support page for Creative Labs products it says the 0404 (along with the various...

Klipsch's website says those ProMedias are 120V only, which probably won't work for the OP since he quoted his budget in £. Something like the Swans M-200 might be suitable.

Quote: Originally Posted by epaludo On EAC if you want WAV and another compressed format (MP3, ogg, FLAC, etc.) you can just uncheck the delete WAV after compression option ... True enough, but programs like MAREO and REACT take care of tagging the files for you. If you simply...

Quote: Originally Posted by zroeder Unfortunately, my sound card is quite outdated and doesn't have digital outputs. Any other ideas? This begs the question: Just what digital output are you going to feed into your intended DAC? Or are you looking for an upgraded soundcard that...

Quote: Originally Posted by Patrick82 I found the problem!! Close, but not quite... You're listening with the lights on. You have to be in the dark. The radiation emitted from light sources could be affecting the signal quality of your headphone cables... Who knows how far...