Everywhere i read that these players sound the same. But to my ears they do not. So those of you who have both or have heard both whats your take on this? For me the Clip + has a fair bit more upper mid bass thicker mids etc. Obviously this is dependent on system, but it is noticeable to...

My friend has an Acer 5000 laptop which is around 6 months old. [just out of guarantee!] In the last few days one of the hard drives has started making an intermittent 'pinging' sound . Not sure what is making it, but it gives the impression of the lever holding the reader making an excursion...

I believe I just witnessed a near miss between two airliners queuing to land at the UK's Heathrow airport. I was looking up and noticed what appeared to be one plane descending onto the back of another it was dark but the wing tip lights seemed exactly the same spacing apart on both...

I came across the this site: http://secondlife.com/ Sounds like it could be fun. Plenty of opportunity for opening a high end audiophile store and building/selling the most incredible kit imaginable, hehe I have never been into gaming [and know jack about it] so those deep...

Could not help but notice this article in the Daily Telepgraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...9/nmacca09.xml So much for it's not about the cash etc etc. Poor bugger. .

With temperatures around 30 degrees, the trusty Stax 404 is not my first choice of headphone! I have used my ETY ER4 for portable use for a while, but last year got myself a pair of Shure E4's for summer listening,I use an Arcam CD23 as source and a single ended mosfet follower to drive...

I have not seen any posts by him recently. Some of head-fi's flavour has gone missing. Is he OK? .

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It would be handy if I could find a source of [free] ready made models of parts. Can anyone help? .

Check this out: http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/n...16/ixhome.html It mentions the emission of 80db sounds up to 16K. apparently anyone over 20 cannot hear this. Well I am 42 and quite clearly detect 16k and higher. And when one considers the 'hearing damage in the young epidemic...

A simple class A cap coupled follower,biased around 70ma. Just threw it together using whatever lay to hand and powered it with an 8 cell nimh pack. I am listening to my shure E4's with it and it seems to be doing something right. Previously I had only made portable stuff based around...

I spotted this little marvel whilst looking through the September issue of HiFi World magazine. This 200ml bottle of secret ingredient containing liquid cost £75... The magazines little review states it makes as much difference as changing a good quality IC to and 'expensive' high end...

As an ER4 user I was more than curious about these canal phones and have read a number of views about them here. I have recently obtained a couple of pairs of these phones, one pair for me and one for my partner to use with her Iriver HD340. My initial experience with these single...

If so do you find the sound quality truly awful and distorted? My CD sounds terrible and whilst the music seems nice it takes a real act of will power to sit through the CD. Setmenu

My partner has just bought herself an Iriver H300, the first hard drive player experience for either of us. This solid little player is really nice, I like the way it simply plugs in as an external hard drive , could prove useful on many levels. The advantages of storing your music on a...

As this forum contains a diverse bunch of people with a wide range of skills and interests I thought someone may be able to point me in the right direction with the following: In the not too distant future I will have need of a website for a commercial venture. I have no experience with...

A while back after having conducted an a/b switching test between cable using my stax amp I had all but convinced myself that cable audibility was a psychological phemonena.. http://www5.head-fi.org/forums/showt...7&page=2&pp=20 Yesterday I was messing with interconnect lengths for my...

Has anyone else [who frequents the site] had problems with : www.diyaudio.com ? I have been getting this message page : "There seems to have been a slight problem with the database. Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser. An E-Mail has been dispatched to our...

Over discharged my poor nims, blubber blubber, I am trying to nurse my patients back to life at this very moment..... Will they ever forgive me? The amp pack went to 5v and the dac pack went to...2.5v I doubt they will ever be willing to work such long hours for me again. Setmenu

Some not so discrete components....... http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/circ...her-024002.php Setmenu

Details: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/news/alt...ohn_peel.shtml I am lost for words Setmenu

I have been trying to obtain some of these buffers to enable me to build a couple of low power consumption portable amps. I am also curious about the sound of the buffer, my usual choice is the HA 5002. I have located a couple of Uk sources one can offer a min of 50 pieces at £4.95 + tax...

Has anyone had any experience with these : http://www.analog.com/en/prod/0,,759...8055%2C00.html The reason I ask is that my previous portable dac was up graded to the 8056 by the person who did the mods to it a few years back, and I think the sound is rather nice. Thus they seem a...

Check this thread : http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showt...0&pagenumber=1 Setmenu

I ask this, because I recently purchased this CD and I am somewhat dumbfounded by the tonal balance of the recording! There appears to be virtually no bass and little presence to the sound, but plenty of treble... This balance does not do much for my musical enjoyment of this CD, which is...