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    Is my CD bought from Amazon pirated?

    Copy? But it is distributed by BMG not Amazon.
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    Is my CD bought from Amazon pirated?

    I bought a brand new CD -- Rubinstein Collection Vol 26: Chopin from Amazon.com (sold by Amazon.com not from any 3rd party seller). See the link below: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000054277 I have a strong feeling that what Amazon sold me is a pirated CD. The booklet is poorly printed...
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    Reply to review by 'foobar2015' on item 'FiiO X5 3rd gen Premium Hi-Res DAP'

    In consumer product especially in audiophile level product, brand is the most important factor in purchase decision. In US most of the time consumers can't have touch and feel or test on the product in physical store unless they make a purchase. So if you duck up in one product in the past, it...
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    Reply to review by 'foobar2015' on item 'FiiO X5 3rd gen Premium Hi-Res DAP'

    @ryanjsoo No mean to offense. I really appreciate your review on X5III.   I found X5III listed $399 in Adorama Camera. But I got the Pioneer deal for USD $299 (See https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA3JX3VY0163&cm_re=pioneer_XDP-_-55-475-001-_-Product). It comes with US...
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    Reply to review by 'foobar2015' on item 'FiiO X5 3rd gen Premium Hi-Res DAP'

    I need a BT and wifi DAP. But I was so fed up by Fiio X1. Instead of waiting for Fiio X5III, recently I bought Pioneer XDP-100 to replace my old Fiio X3 II.   Pioneer's UI response is snappy and its wifi 802.11 ac chip is fast. The most important thing is that everything just works as Pioneer...
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    How to stream music from Android Pioneer XDP 100R to AV Receiver

    Last week , I bought Pioneer XDP 100R for $299. This is my first Android device. Bear with me -- I can't figure out how to stream music from XDP to my marantz AV receiver.    It is fairly easy in my iOS device because marantz AV receiver supports Airplay.   How can Android beam music through...
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    Review by 'foobar2015' on item 'FiiO X1-II High Resolution Lossless Music Player (2nd Generation) (Silver)'

    I owned X3II. It is premium quality but sold at cheap price. I want a portable DAP with bluetooth to off load music from my iPhone. I bought X1II without reading any reviews. Because I put a blind trust in Fiio brand. It turned out I was wrong and dead wrong this time. The firmware is...
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    Review by 'foobar2015' on item 'Bowers & Wilkins P3'

    Background:   I own Sennheiser HD600 and Fiio X3II. I love HD600 because it is comfortable and also works well for my classical music and vocal music. But it doesn't play well with any pop music on my iPhone. I got a decent portable amp. I have tried several different brand of amp. HD600 just...
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    A plan : bit perfect devices streaming from PC USB port to AV receiver HDMI port

    I don't want to buy an expensive external DAC to replace my Marantz AV receiver. I have a computer, which should convert any lossless audio format to PCM by software easily.   So I have an idea to build bit perfect network connected devices that streams PCM from PC USB port to my AV receiver...
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    Bugs in Fiio X3II multichannel replay

    When Fiio decode multi-channel ALAC and FLAC, I can hear other channels besides front left and front right. But they are all dislocated. I still insist it is a software bug in their firmware. Because they are software decoded.     Down mix PCM algorithm may require some matrix multiplication...
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    Bugs in Fiio X3II multichannel replay

    The problem is the following:   1. In X3II specs, Fiio claims that it supports all lossless audio format. In US, false statement in advertising is illegal.   2. If X3II doesn't plan to support multichannel, it should not play the files at all or output error message. But it does play PCM...
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    Bugs in Fiio X3II multichannel replay

    I posted this in Fiio forum. But I don't get any traction there. So I decided to post it here.   I did a test by downloading a sample multichannel PCM from http://www-mmsp.ece.mcgill.ca/documents/audioformats/wave/Samples/Microsoft/6_Channel_ID.wav . I encoded it as ALAC and FLAC. I tested...
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    Any recommendation of good AMP store in US

    @ProtegeManiac  Well, you are my hero. I live in Raleigh, NC for 7 years. I never know there are at least three small local business selling headphone in my area. One of the store I drove by every day but I never notice it is a audio store. Because it only accepts private appointment. The store...
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    Any recommendation of good AMP store in US

    I bought it from Best Buy. The local store provides a semi-complete list of CM series B&W speakers and a large collection of AV receivers for testing in a dedicated theater room. But I'm not sure they try to carry head gears as I only find a limited number of headphone AMP in their website.  ...
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    Sennheisers HD 598 Bass and volume question?

    I bought the same pair as a lightening deal but I returned it immediately. Although I don't have a problem in volume, my personal feel is that its bass is way too weak with Fiio X3 II and iPhone (without AMP).    It works in an acceptable way by plugging into my Marantz SR5008 AV receiver. I...
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