I have a Xin SuperMini 3 that's got a loose connection somewhere: if the output cable isn't inserted just right, then I pick up static and radio signals. This started happening after I tripped over my headphone cable five years ago, and the amp has laid dormant since then until I recently...

Hey all,    It's been a VERY long time since I last visited head-fi. I have a xin supermini 3 amp that I haven't used in ages since it produces a lot of noise and, unless I squeeze the input and output cables towards each other while music is playing, it seems to be picking up a talk radio...

Hey, guys, could you please recommend to me some recordings of these pieces? They're particular favorites of mine, but I don't have recordings of them yet. Smetana - The Moldau Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No. 2 Chopin - Ballade in G minor (I've got a great Ashkenazy, but I preferred...

Hey guys, I've been lurking for a while but haven't posted in months. Anyway, I haven't used my Xin Supermini-III in ages (been using the av710's normal headphone out) since some time in the fall I tripped over my headphone cable and jerked the amp a bit . The 1/8" line in jack to the amp...

I'm very seriously considering switching to mac when I get a laptop for college this summer, but I want to make sure that I'll have an easy time with taking notes in class. How does the onenote 2007 program on windows compare to the notebook layout in word 2004 (i'd probably get office 2008 if i...

I have a modest cd collection (just under 100 albums), most of which I bought over the past two or so years. I will be going off to college in September, and I need to sell some stuff to have some more money in the bank when that time comes. I have known for a long time that I have pretty...

I have a modest cd collection (just under 100 albums), most of which I bought over the past two or so years. I will be going off to college in September, and I need to sell some stuff to have some more money in the bank when that time comes. I have known for a long time that I have pretty...

I've been using foobar for months, if not years, now. I've been using the high sample rate mode on my av710 and a supermini-III amp to run my akg k240s, the majority of my library is in lame v2 mp3 or itunes aac (vbr, 128-224), and some cbr of each. i have some flac, too. recently i've...

An oil storage tank has the shape of a solid obtained by revolving the curve y= x 9 625 4 from x = 0 to x = 5 about the y-axis, where x and y are measured in feet. Oil weighing 50 pounds per cubic foot flowed into an initially empty tank at a constant rate of 8 cubic feet per minute. When...

Ok, so for years I was a major classic rock fanatic. Pink Floyd was and still is my favorite band. Love the Beatles, Dire Straits, Steely Dan, etc. But all that's beside the point. Lately I've been discovering a love for new age music, and I want to indulge this as much as I can. I love...

So, I was going down to dinner a few hours ago, and as I got up from the computer I tripped over the headphone cable that had fallen off the desk and by my feet. the cable and headphones (akg k240s) are fine, but i hurt the neutrik 1/8" plug plugged into the xin supermini-III (connects to...

I love my im716s, but I long ago lost the foamies (before I ever got a chance to use them), and the tri-flanges are painfully large, especially right after inserting the tips and after maybe an hour of listening, if that. This puts a pretty serious damper on the excellent sound quality. I've...

I now have a supermini-III, but i would like to send it back to xin to get upgraded to near supermini-IV levels for free. however, i know that xin has recently been under a lot of strain to churn out new amps. are they still swamped? if so, about when might i expect to be able to send in my amp...

I now have a pair of AKG k240s, but recently I've grown increasingly discontented with them. I have strayed from my nearly exclusively rock musical preference to a broader range, including rock, folk, classical, choral, jazz, and some (not very much) electronica. as the hd580s have gone down...

Sorry if this is in the wrong section, didn't know where to put it I have a 1996 Geo Tracker, one of the least wieldy and probably most unsafe cars (to be in, at least) that I can name. I'm only in high school, though, and it's my mom's old car, and it has an ironically amusing color scheme...

I've an av710 coming in the mail on Tuesday, and I'm wondering what the currently accepted best driver is for using the av710 with high-quality mode (the one we buy the card to use). I won't be using the card with an external dac, so there's no flashing it to a prodigy to use the prodigy's...

i've searched around for suggestions re an amp with good synergy with the akg k240s, but didn't find much, particularly in recent threads. i would like to get a new soundcard (probably a chaintech av710 if i can find one, maybe an m-audio revo 5.1, whatever, that's a different discussion) and...

i just ripped some new cds to aac, and realized that i accidentaly did it with the mp4 extension, not the m4a extension, so my ipod can't read them. is there a batch script or something i could use to rename the extensions on all these files (there're nearly 100 of them) so that i don't have to...

the newest aac encoder (version 1.0.0.2, released yesterday, i think) from nero comes with a separate executable for tagging the encoded files. has anyone managed to get a working script for both encoding and tagging the aac files in eac yet? i used the code posted in the announcement thread on...

the case that came with my im716s seems ridiculous to me. i don't see how i'm suppossed to put the things in it. i can open it but it's in no way intuitive how to use the thing. i feel really stupid because of this, but has anyone else managed this? i'd love to be able to use the case when i go...

Currently I'm using foobar 0.9.1 as my main music player but i'm keeping 0.8.3 for foo_pod. however, my replaygain values on my music files (.m4a, nero's new aac encoder) from 0.9.1 can't be seen in 0.8.3, so i can't have foo_pod turn them into soundcheck values on my ipod. is there a way to...

it's an sb live! 5.1 (i know, i got it before i came to head-fi). i bought it used, and it's pretty low-end, so i guess it was time for it to go, but i don't have the money to go replace it now. all it puts out through any output is a high-pitched tone (i've tested with both headphones and...

a friend recently gave me a few mixes, but for some reason she no longer has the track lists, so i have to go through all the disks, memoriing lyrics and googling for information. there are a few songs on the first cd (the only one i've done so far, it takes so long), which i haven't been able...

Just received these early this afternoon, only have a few hours of listening time on them so far. i bought them as i'm about to go on a two month holiday in france with my grade (all 26 of us, plus five really cool teachers ) and i definitely can't bring my akg k240s (they're way too big, and...

I've been working on transferring from foobar 0.8.3 to 0.9.1, but i find that a lot of the files i've encoded, which are perfectly tagged in 0.8.3, show up without tags in 0.9.1. why would this be? i really don't want to have to retag all of the these files, even if masstagger makes it easier...