I've been doing my vinyl rips taking the sound from the tape out of my amp directly to the mic input of the laptop and it sounds very good to me

Would be interested to know if anybody has had any experience with this amp/DAC...? Thanks http://www.ebay.de/itm/All-in-one-ES9018K2M-XMOS-U8-USB-DAC-decoder-Class-A-hedphone-amplifier-decoder-/142196021432?hash=item211b8b18b8:g:LDEAAOSwa~BYPqpd

Thanks all for the input. I know at some point I'll end up trying some external DAC or amp just to be sure! unfortunately as the laptop is not my main music listening source I don't think I'll be able to strech budget beyond 100-150

Hello Flyingicarus I'm glad that you share your experience. Could it be Acer laptops have a quite competent headphone output? Don't know, but I have a cheap Acer laptop, about 6 years old using an unidentified Realtek chip and I don't find anything wrong listening to FLAC and WAV files with 300...

Any experience with this amp? I searched on the forum and didn't find anything. https://www.amazon.com/Douk-Audio-Headphone-Amplifier-Pre-Amplifier/dp/B01EL49VOG   Could it be an upgraded Nobsound NS08E? It seems it's been designed differently though. I know nothing about headphone amps and...

I agree on all you say, it would've been good some talk about sound on their part. I look forward to your findings!

Hello sup27606, yes, they didn't say tubes are for show (that would be having just a glowing tube doing nothing) but they elaborate that tubes were included into the design for the sake of having/showing tubes there... that's what I don't like so much. I don't want to diss the amp as for the...

Thanks for sharing your experience Zodiac. About what you say about tube amps I'm considering trying with some adapter to connect the speaker outs from my headphone output-less tube amp to headphones, just for the sake of experimenting not as a permanent solution.   I didn't know the Gpinto...

Maybe this has been asked already: Any amp from this brand at similar price point without the tubes? I saw this video about reverse-engineering it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coSt5HWRvv4 Sorry to introduce controversy here, but if you jump to the end they say that basically the tubes are...

Hi Atarione, I don't have both, but today I've been using the Kenwood again. Set up was simple: FLAC files from Sansa Clip+ > amp > HD600s It's been an exciting session, couldn't stop listening! besides I'm still on the honeymoon with the HD600s. I tend to leave tone controls flat, if anything...

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I think both would be considerably similar, visually I prefer the 6100 but for what I researched some years ago the 7100 may have the edge soundwise

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Awsome vumeters!