I live in Japan and oddly enough Amazon Japan had some. only 1400 yen for a pair. That is the cheapest I have seen anywhere. They don't say matched though. Amazon Japan does sell a surprisling large number of tubes and they do indeed sell "matched" pairs on there. But like I said... we have no...

$40+$10 shipping for 5$ worth of tubes. No thank you. I don't need input tubes, so no need to buy a 4x set from Schiit. I emailed them if they would just sell power tubes and its been 10 days. They never got back to me. I take that as a no. I am just curious what you guys think about power...

Power tubes fellas. What do you do about the power tubes?

Power tubes!? I think over the last 3 weeks I have been through all 45 pages of this thread and have not really seen much talk about the power tubes. 6N6P. 1. Do they need to be matched? Schiit supposedly matches them. 2. Why are they so effing hard to find? I have searched google left and and...

You have to be kidding.    I was looking to upgrade from my Clip because the battery seems to not last as long. Best 40$ Flac player money can buy.  What even plays FLAC for under $100 or $200? 

The x7 has TWO AC adapters.  Just read the review on page 1. The OP states that the upgraded (more powerful) adapter poweres speakers much better. Just read through the comments. ON THIS PAGE "I did, and I also use the E-MU XM7. The power adapter makes absolutely no difference with headphones...

as far as I can tell, its the other way around. There are tons of fantastic powered speakers for around 100.    All the decent unpowered seem to START at 100, but through another 100 for the upgraded AC adapter, or 50 for the 3rd party adapter. 

Powered speakers or unpowered speakers for the X7?    I don't need to fill a room with sound. These speakers are going to be sitting 1 meter away from ears.      What will be the difference between I was looking at something like the powered Fostex PM0.3(B) and  unpowered Sony SS-CS5  ...

its $20....  TASCAM is also  in the "prosumer" and "professional" segments of the market but they still sell a few cheap but good doo-dads for the average joe.  Behringer has quite a few cheapy but good consumer products. Anyway my point was the UAC202 is preatty much the best and cheapest...

"Sound Blaster X7 has a unique feature to function as a USB to SPDIF converter." Behringer uca202 does as well for only 20$. Its an insanly good USB dac for $20. RCA outputs/inputs and headphone amp/out but the headphone out is doo-doo. All the other connections are choice (for 20$).   

I searched and found zero results.  Does the X7 have a TRRS jack? Can I use a headphones with a mic built in (a headset with a TRRS jack)? 

Necroing this thread. because in searching for days I still can't find an answer to this question.    I have Sound Blaster X-Fi MB3  is there any point what so ever in getting one of the hardware solutions.  the G5. The Z, Xz, XZR, or x7. 

optical, RCA, coaxial.  If I understand the SBX signal should be able to transfer through coax or optical, but not USB. 

Why the G5 over a soundblaster Z?    This is what I have now. Realtek Mobo with SBXpro software and Astro Mix amp.  So I can run optical from the mobo to the mixamp and either get Dolby headphone or I can use the SBX from the software package.    Will I really benefit from the g5? Better...

I have been messing around and thinking about this since I posted.  It dawned on me the ODAC is bypassing the realtek.    I am also a double moron. I have an Astro Mix amp sitting right here. I just built a gaming rig a couple months ago, so it didn't even cross my mind to hook my Astro mix...

Sorry. I am feeling REALLY dense. Can we just take one step back for me please.  I want virtual surround sound for my games through my 2.0 headphones.  I have realtek audio and creative  X-Fi MB3. What is creating the virtual signal. SBX in  X-Fi MB3?    Right now I have my audio coming out...

Wow I can't believe there is no mention of Star Citizen in these forums. I am 100% obsessed with this game. Are there any other Citizens on head-fi? 

Sorry, what is DH. Did you mean DG as in Xonar DG? 

yeah. I am happy enough with my iphone 6 for now, but next phone upgrade in a year probably, I am switching for sure.   

SACD/DSD has already been around 17 years. Places like Bandcamp still sell Cassettes. Vinyl is on the rise and the few pressing machines (and corresponding support industries) can not being to match current demand. DSD is going no where. Nor am I advocating for it. I am was merely trying to say...

It seems to be working. The demo works. I don't have any games installed right now that I know has any surround sound to test. I think Serious Sam HD does.  Is there any program or website I can use to test it. 

Russian torrent sites have more SACD rips and DSD files than any other single source on the web. Its pitiful. 

Seriously why can't Fiio get into the cell phone market, or one of the trillion android cell phone makers partner with fiio to add this kinda of audio functionally to an android phone.    A phone that could play DSD?! It will be 10 years until we see that even though the technology existed for...

I don't know why I am having such a hard time grasping this. I have been using the Mixamp for console gaming for 6 years now.    I just built a new PC gaming rig and I am switching over to PC gaming.  So I have a z710 Gigabyte Gaming 3 motherboard. I installed the realtek audio drivers. I...