Hi aboss3, I am looking for closed back design bluetooth headphones and I saw your 2017 head-fi post about having bought the B&O H7 bluetooth headphones. I was wondering whether you are still amazed by the sound quality, just what it was that amazed you, and whether you would recommend these...

Hi PurpleAngel, Thanks for the reply.   Actually, the fact that plugging in the headphones did not cut volume to the speakers is the reason that I posted, because I wondered about that, too.   Audio is outputed to both the headphones and the speakers when I plug the headphones into the...

Hi, I have an old Denon AVR 3200 (not the newer 3200W), and am trying to work out how to do the following, and would appreciate any help that people can give with this:   1. I would like to be able to mute the output to the main speakers when I plug my headphones in (so that I can listen to...

Hi, A couple of years ago I ordered the excellent Archos XS 202 portable hard drive/mp3 player. I just love this unit; the only thing that I dislike is that it only comes in a 20GB version, and I've just hit that capacity. With this in mind, I'm wondering if anyone could recommend a...

About 3 months ago I finally gave in to the urge to buy an MP3 player, and set about researching what was available given my criteria. I should say here that I don’t like the MP3 format – it is too lossy for me; i.e., the audio data that is lost in compressing CD files to MP3 format bothers...

Roach, and others who may be interested, I'm finally posting a review of my recently acquired Archos XS-202. Please see separate thread. gvdv

Hi, I've been madly ripping and encoding using a mixture of EAC and CDex. I've been testing some of the files by navigating to Windows Explorer (in Windows XP Home), and I've found something that I don't understand with a few files. When I click on the .mp3 to play the first few seconds...

I have a Walkman WMD6, have had it for years, and really like it, but find that the bass recording, response, is very 'soft'; this is particularly evident when one A-B's it with a CD of the recording. I was also startled by how Sony UXPro CrO2 (?) gave a much wider and more accurate stereo...

Quote: Originally Posted by Febs Download LAME 3.96.1 (this is the latest stable release). Unzip and copy the lame_enc.dll file into the CDex_150 directory, overwriting the existing .dll file. Hi Febs, Thanks for this. And thanks to everyone else, too, for providing me with...

Hi Asr, Thanks very much for your reply. The method of doing this seems obvious, really - don't know why I didn't think of it. I knew that CDex defaults to LAME, and that's what I had set as the default, but I wondered why the files were bigger when I did this than when I went through...

Hi Folks, Thanks for all the suggestions and links. GVDV

Hi Socrates63 and ASR, Socrates63 - thanks for the link to the explanation and list of the various digital audio formats. ASR, thanks for answering my question. And I have another one for you. I currently have EAC set up to automatically use LAME as the encoder, and find that it does a...

Quote: Originally Posted by notnormal Here's an outdated tutorial but still very useful for beginners. Tutorial Hi Blessingx and Notnormal, I had spent most of the past two days reading about .mp3, including the two links that you sent, which were very useful, so thanks anyway...

I bought a case for my first portable - a Sony Discman that I bought in 1986 - despite the fact that I used the discman almost exclusively indoors plugged into my hi fi system. I was glad that my Sony MD player came with a case, as I use the player quite a lot, and I have just ordered a case...

Quote: Originally Posted by socrates63 This applies to me. I use EAC to rip, and EAC then calls upon lame to covert the wav to mp3. I've disabled the 'rip on the fly' setting in CDex because of issues that I read about similar to the ones that vranswer talks about. It is a lot...