Now they're working again. I wonder if a little moisture got in there and now dried out.

They sound great, but unfortunately after a few weeks, the touch pad is pretty much dead. They will just swap me for a new pair, but I'm waiting until I get back from a trip I need them for next week.

I just got my pair last night. Very easy to setup, went through the whole hearing test thing. Initially very impressed. Comfortable, sound great. Even my wife, who's not much of an audiophile thought they sounded better than any other wireless headphones she's tried.

For Mac, I use XLD

Actually the cool thing would be the Fusion drive. SSD and ATA HD with automatic switching between the two, acts like it's one drive. 

XLD will work and it's free. Lossless is lossless, shouldn't change the sound quality.

Audirvana free works. Also Clementine and Play.

Pure i20 dock ($80) into powered speakers would probably give you the best sound. It's the cheapest/easiest way to bypass the internal DAC in the idevice without jailbreaking it, as far as I know. The A5s mentioned above look nice, but at 25 lb/pr, not easy to carry around. The A2s at <7lb/pr...

There are free apps that play flac, 8player lite and Aceplayer for example. The trick is getting the files into your phone, I don't know how to do that. I can stream from a DLNA server (on a laptop)  to my phone in high-res Flac though.

Thanks for your work on this Thraex. Now if the new iphone is capable of using an external DAC without powered hub or jailbreaking, it will be interesting to use the Seagate with that as a high-resolution portable player. 

Well I couldn't resist. Had a "free" $200 gift certificate to Brookstone, so I bought a pair of T50ps for <$100 out of pocket. Got them yesterday, have to say I really like the sound so far, also very comfortable, nice and light. 

Thraex, I certainly appreciate your work on this. Please keep me up to date with your findings. I'm particularly interested in seeing if the Seagate Satellite works well in conjunction with one of the flac players. 

Quote: That must be awesome! What are you running Pure off of, a macbook? 

Was playing around last night with some of the free flac players. Was running LMS as a DLNA server and it was working quite well with 8player and AcePlayer Pro. Was not using an external DAC, so I can't confirm what bit rate was being used.  The Seagate Satellite GoFlex/ 8player combo would be...

Quote: Odd, I was able to download Aceplayer pro on my ipad for free, could then get in on my iphone for free.  Read through the manual for the Seagate Satellite, looks like a great portable solution in conjunction with flac player for an idevice. There have been mixed reviews on Amazon...

My favorite digital recordings to listen to are vinyl rips off a high-end system. I think some of it has to do with dynamic compression in modern CDs. 

The $80 Pure i20 will do what you're asking. There's a long thread here: http://www.head-fi.org/t/529956/pure-i-20-ipod-iphone-dock-as-a-dac/390 I went through it and found this: -RESPONSE FROM PURE HELP CENTRE--- The i20 SPDIF signal is output from our DSP directly and then buffered...

Quote: Looking forward to hearing your results. I was playing around with it today, on both the iphone and ipad, but not with an external DAC. Except for some hiccups when synching with another player, it seemed to work fine.  I'm also thinking of using a Pure i20 dock as an option for...

ipeng should work. Just have to have a way to run LMS on the server. Then CCK into Dragonfly. Supposedly the DF can work with a powered hub on the ipad.      iPeng Goes Audiophile   With versions 1.5 (iPeng for iPhone) and 1.3 (iPeng for iPad), iPeng’s playback feature...

You should be able to get hi-res (up to 24/96) USB output using LMS on the server end and ipeng with playback activated on the ipad, along with the CCK. 

You don't really need the hardware. You can get the server software for free. Run ipeng on an ipad ($10) or iphone ($5) and activate the player software. Run that into a Pure i20 into a DAC and you're there. 

No digital output, it's not even stereo. There's several threads on the slimdevices forums, with some good insider info. There will be other products coming out, but they can't talk about them. The new system doesn't stream directly from your server to the Touch, it has to go through the...