RPGWiZaRD, thank you for all your hard work! Just a heads-up for those new to the plugin: I never had to do this before, but with this latest update, I had to manually reselect the location of DolbyHph.dll in the DSP plugin settings to get the correct sound. You can easily check by comparing the...

Whatever happened to:   ? Wouldn't that be both the simplest and cheapest option?

So, I just bought these (poor wallet). I know that this sort of discussion had been done to death, but I could hardly find consensus, so I will ask it anyway. If I'm going to drive these from any of the following amps (I'll use a FiiO E17 as DAC), which should it be?:   - FiiO E17 (directly)...

Thanks for the quick response! I had not considered a HiFiMan yet, I will certainly look into it. I'm afraid I won't find them for anywhere near my price range though. You don't suppose the HE-300 would be a good match for me? LCD-3, hehe awesome, that would certainly be what I would go for if...

Hi! Maybe you can help me. I have owned the 8400 for almost two years now, and I really like them for most recordings. However, as has been noted, they can be very analytical and unforgiving on bad recordings, to the point of making me feel physically ill. I'm looking for new headphones in the...

So I've had these for a few months now, and I'm pretty satisfied with the sound. However, yesterday I had to glue the housing parts back together (shoddy build quality), and while doing that I saw that there were vent holes there, but they were glued shut. I assumed it was my own glue, so I...

The "foo_out_asio.zip" link doesn't work anymore.

Exclusive Mode is also known as WASAPI in Foobar.

Mind you that the E17 only supports stereo.

I'm still pretty sure it's supposed to output those 8 extra bits, even if they are all zeroes when no dsp is used. For example, see this post, this post and this post.

Just got my E17 and I love it. However, what I find a bit weird is that when I select 24-bit as output format on Foobar and I play a 16-bit file, the E17 still displays '16bit'. It does this on both DS and WASAPI. Isn't it supposed to fill those low-order bits with zeroes (or preserve them when...

Huh? No, you'll generally want to maximize all digital volume control to get the highest Signal-to-Noise Ratio from the computer. And I assume the E17 has a power cleaner so that noise from the port will be less of an issue anyway. (But I'm not certain, I don't have mine yet due to a stupid...

Indeed, but this is equally true of .wav files. EDIT: Thanks Yungyaw!

You're right. FLAC is a lossless compression format for audio. You can freely convert audio between FLAC, WAV, ALAC, APE and any other lossless audio formats without data loss (except of course tags). Eagerly anticipating my own E17 from MP4 Nation BTW. Does anyone know how long it will...

Nice, I ordered one! Hmm... It appears that my volume control cable seems to offset the channel balance slightly to the right... Oh well, back to digital volume control for me then.

tdockweiler: are you talking about the X-Fi Go! Pro or just about the original Go? Aren't they a little "lo-fi" for pairing with these headphones? If not, I think I'll buy one as a temporary solution and save to buy a more expensive DAC/AMP (read: E17) later.

Thanks Zoom25! I think I might indeed go for the E10, and then save up to buy a portable amp later. I noticed that these headphones are a lot less fatiguing to listen to when driven from my iPod than when driven from my onboard sound. What I also noticed is that while there's definitely less...

I just got mine, and I really like what I'm hearing so far. However, I'm still looking for an amp for this headphone, preferably in combination with a DAC as I want to be able to use my laptop as a source. Unfortunately, my budget is only about 80 dollars. Options I'm considering are the Fiio...

I'm about to buy these headphones, and I was wondering which amp I should buy for it. I was considering the digiZoid ZO, or would that be a really bad idea? If so, would I be much better of with the E11? Any other suggestions?

So, firstly my apologies for starting a new thread on this. Somehow I managed to miss this huge thread...   I hope you guys can help me. I'm kind of an audiophile myself, but I usually find myself limited by my budget. I'm looking for new, high-end headphones (or as close to high-end as my...

I hope you guys can help me. I'm kind of an audiophile myself, but I usually find myself limited by my budget. I'm looking for new, high-end headphones (or as close to high-end as my budget will get me). My budget is about 100 euros. I'd like them to be closed-ear, preferably with good...