Hi, I'm new on Head-fi, but I'm looking for the best-quality portable music player for under $400. I've heard the Sansa Clip+, or Cowon V5 is good, but I'm open to suggestions. I have a sony mdr-zx600 set of headphones, but wouldn't mind getting better ones (if my headphones are the bottleneck)...

I'm pretty new to the ohm's and impedence stuff so I'm wondering if this is what the problem is. I have the shure 535s and on my iphone 3gs ( volume setting is right at the --->"|" mark of the Iphone OSC "|<<  >  >>|" }. And the sound is very clear in my ear. With my old IEM I had to move the...

I am looking for a PMP with good screen that doesnt sacrifice audio quality when playing back my 320kbs MP3 library.  Cowon is the leader in my search so far but I cant find much info on these larger screen models.  All the posts that come up in my search are fairly old and not very...

hi, how's the V5HD's sound quality? it's not any lower than J3 is it?

Iam looking for a PMP, all my music is in FLAC format, so that rules out an ipod... and needs to have a digital out, so I can hook it up to my DAC. Preferences; - Accept FLAC - Must have digital out - Over 30gb storage - Size is not an issue   Thanks dean0  

Hi Recently I bought myself a Cowon V5, which has a digital out. Well the problem is that, when plugged in my D10, there is a strange hiss every 4-5 seconds. It is freaking me out. I do not know what to do. I tried my D10 with another spdif out and it worked out well. So everything should...

I recently was reading CPU magazine and they reminded me that Foobar2k 1.0 was out, so I went to download it.  I don't know what it is, but something about it sounds better than iTunes.  Of course it's all software driven, but it's just bass drums are crisper and the detail overall just seems a...