Quote: Originally Posted by Henry Winter Dear head-fi community, I must admit I am rather confused. Actually I wanted to pick up a new touch after the praise it has received here. But upon perusing a number of online reviews (trustedreviews.com, some foreign language side) I had to...

If there is burn in, it is slight. I think mostly it is a matter of getting used to them over a period of a week or so. I have a pair that are 2 years old and still going strong, but I treat them well.

Where are you guys finding the Denon C500's for $50.00? I'm having difficulty finding them "at all" for twice the price. since I really like my CX300's I thought I would give these a go if the cord is indeed firmer.

I'm surprised the V-moda's are still having these issues after so long. A very long time ago I was supposed to get a pair for review but never did. I guess this is the reason why because I was told by the owner that the problem was "overstated".

Quote: Originally Posted by markopolo I recently returned my E4c's due to a cracked rubber seal around one of the drivers (where it connects to the cord) that led to intermittent sound loss in the right ear. But now Shure is saying they never received the package, even though it's been...

Quote: Originally Posted by terance do you mind me asking where i might find these USB properties? it is connected directly to my laptop, so maybe this isn't a possability until i track down a cheap hub? thx Start Menu Control Panel System >Hardware >>Device Manager...

While no OS is perfect and without it's problems. I say OS X. Windows Vista is just not an option for me because of the ridiculous DRM it's got. No offense to linux users, but after playing with Linux for several months I've decided that it's not now, nor will it ever be fully desk-top ready...

Quote: Originally Posted by mofonyx Mine is on almost 24/7. What's the difference of leaving your external harddrive on versus your notebook (i.e. internal harddrive) on? I have no qualms with it breaking down, 5 years warranty by Seagate and I have my FLACs backed up in my iMod...

Quote: Originally Posted by zippy2001 This is indeed true, but if EMI sales start to take off due to the fact that people are willing to pay a little more for no DRM and higher quality, I'm sure the others will be forced to follow the same model. And yes all music companies are greedy...

Quote: Originally Posted by AndrewFischer Perhaps you've missed the real point. Apple has negotiated a DRM-free deal with a major record company. The Big Five have long refused to do this. Now that EMI has agreed, deals with Universal, Warner, BMG and maybe even Sony can't be that far...

Quote: Originally Posted by kwitel Okay-but what does the second option actually do? And if it doubles everything up, why is advantageous to use? The second option copies all of your imported music to C:\documents and settings\username\mydocuments\mymusic\itunes\itune s music...

Quote: Originally Posted by unlimitedx How much would my "listening experience" improve with this? Right now, I have the klipsch 2.0 speakers and the koss ksc75 and plug them into directly to the laptop for music and movies (hardly for games lately). Be careful with the Audigy...

Quote: Originally Posted by mminutel Well, ASUS makes solid quality motherboards so they know what they are doing. No EAX support might turn some people off (gaming wise anyway) but this is head-fi; we care about sound quality. EAX is effectively dead as we know it anyway. Gamers...

Is it working now or what? Apple has released another update for iTunes, supposedly it fixes everything.

Disable Sound Acceleration in DXDiag.exe It's a known issue with iTunes, that's why a lot of people choose to run foobar as their backend.

Quote: Originally Posted by dpippel Not my experience at all. Have you actually used Vista? I've got two computers running it and have had almost ZERO issues with apps or hardware on either of them. One's a new HP laptop and the other a 2 year old Dell Dimension. I'd hardly call it...

Interestingly enough I've had a few people mention that updating their video drivers solved the problem. I believe they said they had to go to the actual web site to get the latest video drivers (in this example, ATI drivers) and install them before the issue with the sound popping went away...

Quote: Originally Posted by kaizer Another vote for AVG 7.5 I dont know why people keep posting that its no longer any good. Are they just Symantec/Mcafee goonies posting crap like this to get a few extra sales and cause confusion? Ive seen this exact same type of post in many...

Quote: Originally Posted by Jon L Did you guys register and pay for your AVG 7.5? After I installed the free version 7.5, it definitely says on the screen that Resident Shield is "not available in free version" and scheduled scan is for "paid version only." I just checked it again...

Quote: Originally Posted by uraflit hope the break isn't TOO serious... but i'm sure there are people that would buy the UM-2's for ~$240 easily... especially if they see your dilemma. Yeah we're not really sure how it's gonna fly yet. Right now they've got her in a walking cast...

Thanks guys I'll probably try for 250 if I have to sell them. They're practically brand new and I'd be including all the spare tips (quite a bit) as well. I'm hoping I won't have to go that route, but our health care spending account was reset at the beginning of the year and if she has to have...

My wife has broken her foot and I may need to sell my UM2's (and other things) to help float us while she's out of work. I checked but didn't see any recent FS threads. They were a Christmas present and are in perfect condition.

I was unable to get the plugin to work with Asio as well. I had to go with the kernal streaming to get it to work.

Quote: Originally Posted by Thelonious Monk if you need 512 mb of ram to run foobar, something is wrong. i can do it with 256 mb of RAM and 533mhz CPU. pentium 3, windows 98... i can even run firefox with the music playing in the background. i think you all are just spoiled by your new...

Quote: Originally Posted by regal I plan on using XP. I'm talking about low end budget PC's that can be found under $100. They typically have a 800 mhz CPU. If you go with 800mhz you might want to use 512 megabytes of ram. SHould do ya fine, just turn off those extra services and...