I have DT880 and SR225 and they certainly makes a good pair. I would not however throw the 225 in a laptop bag (that's what DT770 is for ), they seem a little fragile.

Quote: Originally Posted by nyc_paramedic My desktop machine is a dual-core Athlon X2 4800+ & 2 GB RAM running Debian with a minimal GUI: Openbox window manager and a couple of X terminals. It's more than enough to handle being and NFS server. As a nfs server for music with a...

Quote: Originally Posted by Budgie krrm- better info at- What’s the real story on the Windows Home Server data corruption bug? | Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report | ZDNet.com Not a problem for me luckily. All is ok then, I just remembered I read something about it and took the first...

There has been some reports of file corruption on Windows Home Server so it could be an idea to have a backup (imo the original cd's are only a valid backup if you have plenty of spare time). Microsoft addresses Windows Home Server file corruption, promises fix - Engadget

Quote: Originally Posted by aluren quick question about the dac function. is it normal that the volume can still be adjusted through the computer? initially i thought that the volume can only be changed through the pico since the dac function is supposed to bypass the computer's...

It might also be usefull to use a SMART tool, Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia to check the health of a disk. Iirc SMART was able to predict about 50% of disk failures in the Google disk paper published some time ago.

If you are lucky it is the controller on the external drive that is broken. You can try to open the enclosure and put the disk inside a computer or another disk enclosure. I shall not spell backup.

Quote: Originally Posted by MCC I have problems with the USB input in my setup- I can hear computer noise through the headphones and the DAC miserably fails a simple 20Hz-20kHz sine sweep. I get quite a bit of distortion and a strange descending sweep in the background once it reaches...

Don't know if it's the amp or dac, but my DT770 is much better with the Pico than straight from any laptop I have tried (including two T series Thinkpads and ppc miniMac).

Music (+ photos etc) are stored on my server. I have an external disk that I usually keep at work. I take it home for refreshing the backup whenever I feel like it. In addition I have a "backup" partition on my workstation at home. Files are sync'ed daily (I use rsync) from the server daily.

Quote: Originally Posted by blipmusic I got a shipment notification on Feb 4th (#164 on the list) but according to the USPS-site they've only recieved tracking info i.e. it hasn't really shipped yet but that's over a week ago. I'm guessing this has to do with me being in Europe and...

I found the sound from my Thinkpads (T42 and T60) to be fairly good. As for portable USB dac's I can recommend the Pico, it is small with *very* good sound.

Best and cheap doesn't normally go together ;-) In general USB cards that doesn't require special drivers in Windows, will work in Linux.

Not exactly a soundcard, but I'm currently listening to a Stello DA100 dac feed by USB from Open Suse -> audio in Linux is great Generally USB audio is well supported in Linux, you can see Matrix:Main - AlsaProject for information about specific cards.

Quote: Originally Posted by Menzo Just curious but how do these guys go with the Beyerdynamic DT880? If they work really well I might consider grabbing them. The pico has no problems driving my DT880 (by that I mean I did not notice any immediate difference compared to Stello...