I bought a brand new CD -- Rubinstein Collection Vol 26: Chopin from Amazon.com (sold by Amazon.com not from any 3rd party seller). See the link below: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000054277 I have a strong feeling that what Amazon sold me is a pirated CD. The booklet is poorly printed...

Last week , I bought Pioneer XDP 100R for $299. This is my first Android device. Bear with me -- I can't figure out how to stream music from XDP to my marantz AV receiver.    It is fairly easy in my iOS device because marantz AV receiver supports Airplay.   How can Android beam music through...

I don't want to buy an expensive external DAC to replace my Marantz AV receiver. I have a computer, which should convert any lossless audio format to PCM by software easily.   So I have an idea to build bit perfect network connected devices that streams PCM from PC USB port to my AV receiver...

I posted this in Fiio forum. But I don't get any traction there. So I decided to post it here.   I did a test by downloading a sample multichannel PCM from http://www-mmsp.ece.mcgill.ca/documents/audioformats/wave/Samples/Microsoft/6_Channel_ID.wav . I encoded it as ALAC and FLAC. I tested...

I recently join in head-fi community. To be honest, I haven't spent any serious money on head gear up until now. Because I already have a pretty decent Hi-Fi system setup at home for years.    But recently, I become a new Dad. I can't turn up my B&W speakers with full power any more. So I...