Actually, you can use it while it's charging from a PC. I'm doing it right now!

Yup, it sure can.

Probably just sold out for now.

Yeah, I tossed my stickers in the trash. It's too pretty to cover up! Has anyone heard anything yet about a stacking kit for this little beauty? There's really not a good place to put a standard band that doesn't interfere with a button or the screen in any way.

Congrats! Mine came today too. I've been enjoying it all evening!

Yes, it reads tags just fine. Putting music on it is simply a drag and drop affair. When I plug mine into my computer it basically goes into "disc mode" and appears on my computer as a removable disk. Note that you can't play music while it is transferring music. If you fiddle with the buttons...

Micca Store said my X1 has shipped! I'm so excited for this little beauty. Let's hope that the USPS doesn't take its sweet time getting it to me.

Welcome! I've been thinking about building another Starving Student (this time for my desk at work), so I'm excited to see how your project turns out! Good luck with it!

Yup, my newly acquired 225e's drivers have vent holes in the exact same spot. Where they're located surprises me a little bit... I figured the vent holes should be spaced exactly opposite from each other around the driver and not so close together. I vented my SR60i's drivers as such, but...

I figured this would be a good thread to drag back into existence but hijack into 12AU7 territory. My Starving Student is currently using a pair of 50s vintage RCA long black plate 12AU7s that I got for dirt cheap on eBay. I really like the way the amp sounds but I feel like it can do better...

Last Thursday at about 10pm CST, another 12AU7 variant Millett Starving Student was born! I'm thrilled to say that the first power-on went flawlessly, all systems go right out of the gate with nothing to troubleshoot! Dead quiet too, omg. After a weekend of off and on burn in, this thing...

Mine just arrived in the mail today. Needless to say I'm very excited to place an order at Mouser and hunt for some cheap tubes on eBay :) Thanks again, Howard!

Another GrubDAC is alive and well in this world! Aside from a couple of issues that were resolved very quickly by reading through this thread, the build went fast and was a ton of fun! And of course the sound is the ultimate reward, as this blows my little ELE EL-D01 away. Right now I have it...

Yeah, it is. My first cmoy with a NJM4556 is just fine at a gain of 2.

That is absolutely gorgeous! Nice job! /jealous

That is a great thread :) Fred was nice enough to answer some questions I had and I placed an order at Mouser with a fair amount of confidence so now I just need to grab some protoboard from Radio Shack and wait impatiently for a few days.

Here's a link to Fred's assembly instructions for his DIY RA-1 cmoy kit (I hope he doesn't mind). I think it makes enough sense to me that I can build my own off of that. And here's a link to the kit itself. I would just order the kit with the PCB but I want to make my own layout and learn. It...

So then I'm basically looking at making a cmoy identical to Fred's RA-1 cmoy. That helps a lot! Thanks!

I'm about to order parts for my first DIY CMoy and I have a few questions before I pull the trigger on my Mouser BOM. I'm going mainly off of the Tangent tutorial along with all of the suggested parts upgrades I've found by searching through the forums and looking the JDS CMoyBB parts list. I'm...

Does anyone think that the C&C BH would pair well with a pair of Grado SR60i's and a Rockbox'd iPod Video 5.5? Yes I realize the Grados do just fine without an amp but I'm using an E11 right now between the iPod and the SR60's and the E11 and I love the extra detail the E11 brings out and the...

Quote:   This = awesome. Thanks!

For many headphones you can survive without an amp, but once you add an amp in between your iPhone and your headphones you won't want to go without it.  

I learned something new! Perfect timing too, as I'm about to pull the trigger on my first tube amp :) Thanks for sharing, guys!

I ordered my black ELE DAC from travelinwind on Dec 1st and got it on the 12th. No problems with it at all. It's everything I'd hoped it would be and more, especially since it's actually my first DAC! I'm pairing it with my E11 and Grado SR60s. I do find it to be somewhat bright without the amp...

Longtime lurker, first time poster! (Yes, my wallet is already weeping)   In downtown Minneapolis in the past two months I've seen two pairs of Grado SR60i's, two ATH-M50s (one of the Grados and M50s were even on the same bus), I've seen a pair of the Philips Cityscape Downtowns in the...