I have a BUDA and use it to power my LCD-3's.  It's part of a dedicated Triple Stack setup that I use with a Squeezebox Touch.   I also have a loudspeaker system with a turntable, tube preamp/phono stage, an SACD player, and another Squeezebox Touch.   Of course, the triple stack setup has...

I'm interested in adding a headphone amp to a 2-channel loudspeaker setup.  I have a Dared MC-7P tube pre-amp, with two sets of line-level outputs.  Obviously one of those outputs goes to my loudspeaker amp.  I'd like to push the second set of outputs into a headphone amp, one that would be...

I own a pair of Grado 325is, which are wired with an 8-conductor cable, such that all 4 poles have two conductors run in parallel.     On the Grado web page for these cans, it says the following:  "With the new 8 conductor cable design you will notice improved control and stability of the...

I've had compatibility problems with iPod accessories that pull an audio signal from the dock connector when trying to use them with an iPhone.  I'm interested in getting a portable amp, but only if I can use an LOD.  If I'm going to use the headphone output, then I may as well just keep using...

I have a pair of these on order, should be arriving tomorrow.  Both of my amps are balanced, so I'm obviously quite interested in balancing the 80's.  Just wondering if the stock cable has four conductors all the way through to the 1/4" plug, so I can just install an XLR on the end?  Or would it...

Title kind of says it all.  I have the Benchmark, but I've heard so many good things about the W4S that I'm curious to compare one to the other.  So this is an invite to a head-fi'er in reasonable driving distance to Stamford, CT to bring their W4S DAC2 over for a test drive in my system:  ...

Looking for some amps to research, hoping for some advice on models to look at.   I currently have a Little Dot MKVI.  This amp is functionally very much what I'm looking for, but I'm curious about what I could be hearing if I step it up in cost/quality.  I do like the the LD, but compared...

Wish I could do this myself but I wouldn't know where to start.  It would be really sweet if you could take a Senn 650 cable that you spent a small fortune for, and pop a couple of adapters onto the end that plugs into the headphones, so the same wire could be used for 800's.  And then similar...

I have a pair that I purchased brand new about three years ago, and I wasn't even aware that there were multiple versions.  Wondering what the differences are, how I can tell the difference, and whether one version is considered to be better than the other version?  Thanks!

I've been trying to locate copies of the Ryko 24K Au20 versions of Zappa Hot Rats and Hendrix Winterland. They were supposedly limited release versions (even moreso than the normal Au20 releases). I haven't been able to track down a single copy - can't find it on ebay, amazon, or half.com...

So I just put this new rig together, a mix of old and new. Polk SDA loudspeakers, and an NAD amp, both late 80's vintage. Great sounding gear. I'm feeding the stuff with my new Squeezebox3->optical->DAC1 playing my flac collection. I'm reading all these threads about mega-expensive mods that...

I've discovered that you're insane if you don't spend another $150 or so on a used iRiver. I just got a H120 off eBay and have it hooked up through the toslink to the stack. I'm finally liberated from dragging a laptop around. Yeah, it's only a 20 gig drive, but I rockboxed it and loaded it...

I just got a used H120 off fleabay. My goal is to keep it in a camera bag with my Micro Stack. Has anyone found a short (like 6 inch) toslink cable? I'd prefer mini->mini, but if I can only find a regular toslink then I can deal with an adapter or two. But I'd love to find one that short.....

I'm trying to sell a laptop on eBay, I was using a buy-it-now sale. In the shipping section, I specified United States Only, yet eBay allowed a member with a U.K. address to purchase the laptop, which really ticked me off about eBay. So here's the email chain that I have going with the "buyer"...

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I have a funny feeling that I'm going to pull the plug on cantsleep's Sennheiser woodies from Headfile. Just wondering if I could get some feedback from folks who've woodied up the 650's, wondering how you like them. These are the completely closed variety....

I used to belong to Netflix, but switched to Blockbuster Online because it was a few bucks cheaper and they give you 2 coupons a month for free in-store rentals. On paper, sounds great. But I've gotten SO MANY bad dvd's from them - scratched to the point of not being able to play, or cracked...

I love my Senn 650's, but so many people on here raving about how much better the Grado's are for rock, so I need to give them a try. Grabbed a pair of new SR-225's on eBay for $150, hopefully they'll arrive quickly. I think they'll compliment the Senn's very well!

I just noticed that a FLAC file and a WAV produced by exploding out the FLAC file are reporting different bitrates in foobar. The WAV file is showing about twice the bitrate as the FLAC. Maybe my understanding about bitrates for audio files is wrong - I thought the flac, being lossless...

I just got back from a biz trip to London. My company is gracious enough to fly me Business Class, and on the way there I got bumped up to First Class. American Airlines gives out Bose QC2's to First/Business Class passengers. I had my PXC-250's with me, so I couldn't help but do a bit of...

I can't get this to work, and I see others have been frustrated as well. What I've gathered so far is: 1) Kernel Streaming does not work at all with Micro Dac, you need to use ASIO. 2) No ASIO native support with Micro Dac, so need to use asio4all. I installed ASIO4ALL, it shows the...

Is there a pda that has an optical toslink or even an rca spdif??? I have all of my flacs on a server in my house, and have various clients connected as source components to various audio systems in the house. But imagine if I ran something like SlimServer on it, and then had a pda which had...

I've got foobar on 2 machines - A Thinkpad T30 laptop, and a p4 machine that I built myself. On the p4, everything is perfect, couldn't be happier. But on the laptop, I keep getting occasional popping or clicking noises. Sometimes seems to happen when I'm clicking around with the mouse or doing...

I've been having some problems with my Cardas cable, I've had to return 2 so far and am waiting for a third that they PROMISE will work. According to everything I've read, you should burn in your cans AND CABLE together for about 100 hours. Just wondering if anyone has any recommendations...

Hopefully this catches Tyll's attention.... About 12 years ago or so, Polk Audio stopped manufacturing what I always thought was one of the greatest consumer-audiophile lines of speakers I had ever heard. By consumer-audiophile, I mean speakers in the $1000-$5000 per pair range. Above the...