Few day bump.

So my Phillips CitiScape Uptowns, while purchased for a steal a few years ago, have finally given up the ghost. The sound was good, but it had some cons that I associated with the price: build quality was sub-par and sound quality was highly dependent on the seal (which was easily compromised...

Fantastic news! Glad to hear it!

Blast from the past. Any chance FiiO's thought on this?   (Also, no, none of the FiiO DAPs are nearly as small as the iPod nano. The Apple DAPs are a quarter of the overall size/volume of the X3.)

Just finished listening to some acoustic stuff by In This Moment's lovely Maria Brink, rounding off the night with "Into The Light". It's hard to articulate the satisfaction these headphones have given me.   Sennheiser, never lose this recipe. Ever.

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  While appreciated, I'm looking more at something like this:   http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=121175517188     I have no need for a 3m long cable and have been meaning to replace it with a shorter cable anyway. I imagine something like this is of comparable quality to...

  Doesn't hurt a thing unless it's a borderline unstable overclock. My particular 2600k is benchmark and gaming stable at 5.1GHz on air, so the piddly 4.3GHz I'm on now is nothing.

Found the problem!   Turns out the issue is actually my 3.5mm to 6.3mm adapter. I thought I was using the Sennheiser 3.5 -> 6.3 adapter but was actually using the Somic adapter that came with my MH-463s. I just found my Sennheiser adapter (the black one) and the sound quality is much better...

  Understood. The files I'm playing are not 24/192 though; I guess I'll be getting a glass fiber cable after all though...       I have. None of it applies to me. I'm trying standard 16 / 44.1 stuff right now and my PC is more than capable of handling the work involved.

No Foobar plugins that I know of and I even uninstalled Realtek's driver and let Windows do its thing natively. Same effects.

  No. I would not hear sound at all via motherboard outputs if this were the case. I verified this anyway though.       Yes. The only thing not max volume is the Magni itself.         Edit: in Realtek Digital Output(Optical) Properties, I can hear sample rates of 44.1 kHz, 48.0 kHz...

Ok, Monoprice Toslink cables came in today so I finally get the chance to test my new Schiit stack.     Asus Maximus V Gene SPDIF output Modi Optical DAC RCA PYST cables Magni Amp Monoprice 1m Toslink Cables (standard & premium) HD 600 Foobar 2000     First impressions are... bad...

Hey guys.   I've honestly loved the hell out of my FiiO stuff (barring some oddness with my E17) and will soon be adding an X5 to the lineup. I started to think about the DAP I prefer to listen to the most and honestly my little 6th gen iPod Nano takes the cake. It's small, light, has good...

Right now I'm not particular about cables. I'll reserve judgment until I have the opportunity to set up proper AB blind testing. Quite frankly, given the nature of digital signals and the means by which we facilitate their travel, I'm skeptical by default that there is much of a difference...