Back at CanJam '08 I made it my business to listen to every universal IEM in the house. Out of all of them, I liked the sound of the Shure SE-420s best. Since then, there have been so many new IEMs introduced it's impossible to listen to them all. This one or that one has sounded promising, but...

Hi, For ease of searching, I'm posting this in its own thread. There's a lot more about the Sophia 274 here: http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f5/woo...0/#post5750339 and here: http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f5/mod...5/#post3849727 and here...

Hi, I have stumbled on the realization that my Logitech/SlimDevices Squeezebox 3 sounds better when FLAC files are streamed in WAV format rather than in their own format. In other words, conversion on the server-side seems to work better than conversion on the client. The symptom - or...

Hi, If you are making a Line Out Dock connector (LOD) for your iPod, you may run into a discrepancy in how the pins are numbered. (Yes, you can guess how I came to know this). Everybody here and pinouts.ru calls the line out pins numbers 2,3 and 4, which are common ground, right channel and...

Hi, I was quite taken with the Woo WA6 at CanJam and the 6 SE in Tampa. But now I think it might be worth considering the WA4, which is similar in price and has some tasty physical features. Of course, I haven't heard a 4. So, if there's someone out there who has enough experience with...