The following is a brief (not very brief, sorry!) comparison of a few small 'dongle-DACs' that I have been playing with. Making my way back into the head-fi game after a few years away, I treated myself to a pair of Trinity Audio Atlas IEM's, and then fell into the all-too familiar cycle of...

I must admit, I was very worried after the debacle a couple of weeks ago, but today's race was very much worth getting out of bed for. So much drama all through, and the teams seem to be getting to grips with the strategy of these no-refueling races, which made everything a bit tighter...

So, I settled down this evening to do a light bit of video editing in iMovie, and iMovie wasn't there. When I bought Snow Leopard, I did a fresh install, rather than an upgrade, in order to perform a clean-up of my hard drive. Alas, this of course removes all of my installed applications...

Anybody else trying the current ubuntu release? I am. It's rather nice. I have made the switch from ubuntu to kubuntu, and decided to get rid of all of the windows on my laptop, keeping it (almost) entirely open source. The only thing proprietary on it any more is the broadcom wireless...

Anybody else watch the Brazilian Grand Prix? I did, and it was absolutely awesome. Jenson Button thoroughly deserves his world championship, with that magnificent drive today. The overtakes on Nakajima and Kobayashi in particular were stunning. Barrichello played his part of course, by...

It's a strange business, this audio lark. It's been 4 years since I started wallet-bashing in earnest, and I've gone through a fair amount of gear. Nowhere near as much as some, but certainly far more than could be considered 'normal'. I've not been very active on these boards for some...

PLEASE don't make this a Mac vs Pc issue. I have a mac mini (2GHz Core 2 duo, 1Gb RAM) that is approaching its second birthday. I recently did a Snow-Leopard update. I have noticed (possibly since the update, possibly a bit before) that I am experiencing some slowness, with the system...

At risk of raising the hackles of the anti-mac (and anti-pc) brigades, I was wondering if anybody else had gone and got themselves Snow Leopard yet? I have, and am pretty happy it's money well spent. Smaller footprint than Leopard, seems to run faster as well, plus a few cosmetic changes to...

Yes, another "want to start with vinyl" thread. Apologies. No worries for me about setup isses or pre-amps, at least not yet, but my main issue with starting out is the day-to-day useage. I am absent-minded, on a scale as yet not fully understood by medical science. I pretty much always fail...

I have a favour to ask. Can somebody make me an exciting image? I am currently doing my teacher training, and have a sixth form class. They are good kids, but sometimes motivation can be... problematic... so anything to get them on side is a bonus. As I have only been gradually taking them...

Okay, so I finally got around to putting ubuntu on my laptop today. To cut a long story short, I realised that for anything I was actually using the laptop for, there was no need to stick with windows any more. I played with a live-CD for a while this morning, to check that it would talk to my...

So, today I can't find my iPod. I am annoyed by this, and end up tearing my house apart looking for the damn thing. I waste an hour, only to find it wedged behind a cupboard, and spend a further 15 minutes trying to extracate it. Lord alone knows how it got there. So, that's all kind of...

Just finished watching the Nadal - Murray semi. Just stunning tennis from start to finish, Murray took it to Nadal when Nadal was playing well, and still managed to outplay him. Simply amazing. Thoughts for tomorrow? Federer desperate to clinch something from a lacklustre season, Murray...

This thread has been created to say thankyou, and to draw attention, to the general awesomeness that is Afrikane. Afrikane’s generosity has been well discussed on the forums, providing a number of giveaways and prizes(1,2,3,4,5,6,7). His latest offering, (albeit a bit more private than most)...

BBC NEWS | UK | Music 'can enhance wine taste' From the institute of pointless research... <blockquote> The Heriot Watt University study found people rated the change in taste by up to 60% depending on the melody heard. The researchers said cabernet sauvignon was most affected by...

I have a mac mini, and at present I am using it with my old OEM Microsoft wireless mouse (with the Mac keyboard, for keyboard layout and vanity purposes). I am not considering replacing the mouse with a bluetooth one in order to free up a USB port. BUT, bluetooth mice are a rare and tricksy...

So, owing in part to my carelessness in days gone by (not now, I hasten to add) and owning some second hand CD's, a number in my collection have little scratches on them, which I would like to remove. I have been looking at various of this type. Do they actually work, and/or is there a...

No, I really mean it. Phun - 2D physics sandbox Phun. It's like the best little toy set in the world. Make shapes, make them spin, make things that move and jump and crawl. Once you get the hang of the controls, it's terrifyingly good fun. But don't start playing if you have deadlines...

Well, did you? If you didn't, you missed a surprisingly excellent piece of documentary filming, with Michael Portillo examining various methods of administering the death penalty, and speaking to various scientific experts and politicians etc. working in the field. It's a cracking watch, and...

I have just finished watching the 2nd semi-final. Selby Vs. O'Sullivan, and it was an ABSOLUTE CORKER!!!!! Selby imperious early on, and O'Sullivan fighting to hold him off, then Selby's game failing him a bit and O'Sullivan sneaking back to level. Gets to 7-all (best of 17) so essentially a...

Has the head-fi world missed this, during the outage, or am I being a bit "spesh". But I just got Todd's newsletter, and it seems to be advertising an SR-007 MK2. This is one of the most highly anticipated headphones of the moment, right? Those server gremlins have a lot to answer for...

My mother, a woman of only occasionally lapsing good taste, is after a particular CD. It's a welsh male voice choir, not doing the traditional welsh-male-voice-choit stuff (danny boy, etc.) but as she terms it "modern classics". Apparently, it was advertised on the TV a little while back...

No, head-fi is not broken, this really is a supremus starting a new thread (I did use the search, honest) to ask about the merits of sub-$50 headphones. Basically, my KSC75's are dying, and I need a beater (beta) pair for when the hassle/isolation of my livewires is a bit too much. Has...

Is this my computer not blocking popups effectively, or is this a new forum-wide thing?

Okay, so my new IEM's have arrived. After some fairly extensive listen-in (I am not calling it burn-in, as I am still not entirely sure I believe in it) I have some thoughts on their sound, and I thought it was about time I put finger to keyboard and wrote something about it. This may not be...