This amp (HP4) is certainly loud. I was surprised how loud it will drive Sennheiser HD650! It seems kind of silly though, I can never turn it past 9:30 without my ears hurting. The bass on the HD650 doesn't quite wake up until about 10 o' clock, but the rest of the sound is far too loud. At...

Just a heads-up to CardDeluxe owners. RC3 driver available on digitalaudio's web page. It's ASIO/WDM, and ASIO actually works! It still has the problem of defaulting all WDM audio to 96kHz though -- I wonder if they'll ever stop upsampling system sound?

Originally I was going to purchase Alesis M1 MKII active reference monitors to replace my Swan M-200 speakers... after listening to them at Guitar Center, I figured out it would have been more of a step down. They had similar character to the Swan's I have, except they were boomy! The Alesis...

Has anyone had an opportunity to do an in-depth comparison to a DAL CardDeluxe and the E-MU 1212m, or perhaps the 1820/m? I would like to move away from this sound card of mine, and am afraid to bite the Lynx22 or LynxTwo bullet - CardDeluxe runs hot as hell

http://www.zalman.co.kr/usa/product/ZM-RSA.htm Even Zalman has jumped on the band wagon. I wonder how terrible it sounds? Any Theater 6 owners/curious people want to take the plunge?

Anyone know of any good stereo mini to dual mono phone interconnect cables? I don't really want to go with 1/4" TRS to RCA adapters, that just sounds like more in the way of the signal path to me because I would have to change the 1/4" TRS to RCA, and then run an RCA to mini adapter to my...