Greetings, I decided to plunge back into the world of portable fi with first the Cowon Plenue P1 & then the Onkyo XP1A. Not having done my homework completely, I bought the Cowon not realizing it lacked a line-out &/or unbalanced line. Also found I greatly preferred a dial volume control. Hence...

Greetings everyone, I've searched the older threads & tried several suggestions, but I can't get my iMac, Macbook Pro or wife's Macbook Air to recognize the player for transferring files. Thus far I'm quite happy with the unit playing music solely on the micro-card, but of course I'd like to use...

Greetings to all. I'm actually a returnee, having spent a great deal of pleasant time here a decade or so past (or even longer still:). As my interests changed, I moved away from headfi, putting my resources into macro-stereo. Then, after buying our first condo, our layout wasn't...

Hi, I've had several experiences with the Shure E500 and now SE530. Went like this: my wife managed to buy a pair for my birthday just a week or so after they first came out. I really liked them, but as other readers point out, the cable tends to give way. So it was for me. After about one...

Hi Mike, If memory serves, the amp came with a variable charger set on 12v. The one I replaced it with was also 12v. Then, when the battery problem started I thought I might have overdone the voltage, so I bought a 9v model (I had a brain-fade and decided that the amp had six batteries rather...

Hello everyone, I'd been going along fine with my used sm iv until the cord on the supplied charger frayed and it no longer worked. I bought a substitute 12v at Radio Shack. It seemed fine, but suddenly the sm wouldn't hold a charge for more than a few minutes, even after a whole day of...

Hi BBYO, I rely on a pair of modded 225s & e500 for portable use. Right now my Shures have developed a crack in the hardwire, so they're back to Shure for repair-replacement. Meanwhile it's the 225s exclusively, and they really remind me of my ER4s's with their detail and fine high-range...

Shure e500 $399 (TTVJ;-) Supermacro IV $300 (used) Zune 30 $179.00 Andy

I also have both the e4s & e500. I find the former sound extremely precise, but shrill after using the e500 for an extended period. There's no need of adjustment going the other way--from 4s to 500--however. They are both exceptional iems, but I think the e500 combines precision with fullness of...

Very, very sorry to learn about the broken nozzle (is that the term for it? ) But like the others say, Shure's CS and warranty support is superb. The Kevlar frayed on mine last month. I checked their web page. It said to send just the IEM back, not the accessories, *save for the e500* They...

Don't forget that our vinyl was ubiquitous. The quality varied, but most of it wasn't that great: tonearms that didn't track and weighed more than a VCR, needles instead of cartridges, single-unit players, monaural speakers, etc... While today's vinyl is a specialty, audiophile niche. Even if...

With my e500 at Shure for repair, I was taking my 225s out. Fantastic sound. Now the e500s are back ... and I'm in heaven: h120/Rockbox playing FLACs/OGGs via M-Hornet to e500. What could be better? Andy

Interesting question. I'd go for the multis. Because headphones are like speakers, they have tremendous impact on the final sound, and switching headphones periodically is like doubling or trebling your music library. DIfferent headphones, and especially different styles of phones, reveal...

Quote: Originally Posted by jbusuego I have both. Red or Blue Blue ... obviously;-) Hilary or Obama? Andy

Hi Ray, Trose ... thanks for the comments. I'll try the batts you recommend. Incidentally, I didn't mean to imply I got the *battery* from the buyer, but rather the charger (it's plugged in and would take me the better part of half-an-hour to dig through my electronic forest to read the...

Hi everyone, I've been using Radioshack 9v 120mAh rechargeables in my Hornet. I notice, however, that the unit gets hot, very hot, after a day hooked up to the charger (it was one that I believe Ray bundled with the Hornet to the original buyer). I also get only about four or five hours of...

I've been reading the documentation and going through the menu options, but I can't figure out how to set it to play the entire library, irrespective of playlist or other subgrouping. Andy

Oh, the second part of the question, the iRiver os seems to reset after going off. E.g., if you have it set to shuffle the entire library, it will go back to the default. I haven't found a way to change that. I prefer to keep it on shuffle and just go through the library gradually. Will Rockbox...

I can't believe I typed F for R. That's in no way editorial Now I have to decide if I want to sacrifice my WMAs Andy

I just bought a minty H120. Love the sound quality and L/O. But I've used various Rio players the past few years, and I'm not sure I'm crazy about the screen. Does Rockbox significantly alter the way it operates--e.g. make searching for a particular track, or saving options when turned off? Andy

Moi ... from ER 6 to 4p to 4s:-) Andy

Beth Orton doing "Brown Sugar" on 192 kbps mp3 lame played on an iRiver H120 (just purchased immaculate from a Headfier) via analog line-out to a Xin Supermini V4 into ER4s triflange .... And I know ... this isn't the summit. It can get better by way of flac and--only fly in the audio...

I don't care for the cord. Having sold the pth portion, I use the simple cord extension. It seems to combine the worst of the er4p front cord and the Shure back cord, as the 500 lacks the formed wire that routs it down the back. At least for me. This wire tends to drift towards the front...

AndyKatz: ER4s Lisa Katz [headfier by marraige]: 6i Andy

Any Harbeth/Spendor fans onboard? I haven't owned either, yet ... but they're on my to-do list;-) Andy