BTW - FLAC on the Karma is great unless you like to back up in a song you're listening to. It has to spin up the drive since the buffer can't hold the whole song, and if you have to shuttle back and forth it's murder. That's why I switched to APS MP3s. It all sounds equally gapless to me...

A plain old RCA to RCA will work, too. I haven't measured the jitter, but just one half of a decent patch cable has always worked for me.

Quote: Originally Posted by AzN1337c0d3r is there something that I can do to make it show up as a drive? RioRad. It won't be given a drive letter, but it will show up in Windows Explorer and allow you to drap and drop folders to it.

I'd trade you my Karma. Some people think that the Karma's SQ is equaled by a few DAPs (X5, Creative Zen (non-micro), iPod 4G), but there aren't very many who think it's outclassed by any of them. In truth, I had the iHP-140, the iPod 4G 40GB, and the Karma all at the same time. I went back...

Sorry - the Karma won't show up as a drive over Ethernet. You can't even control the thing over ethernet - just attach to it via RMM for transferring files. It's a crying shame that you can't access the controls from a PC... I think you can use RioRad to assign it a drive letter over USB, but...

How about some deductive logic? I own a Karma, and had a Zen Micro for about a week. Everything I've read around here is that people think that the X5 is at least as good as the Karma for sound quality. The Karma simply sounded better than the Zen Micro. That's using Shure E4C. The Zen Micro...

Compression does not have to equal the loss of information. It can mean a more efficient way of storing that information. FLAC, Windows Media Lossless, and Apple Lossless all cut WAV file sizes roughly in half without sacrificing ANY audio quality. 0000000000001100000 vs. 12x0,11,5x0 You...

Both of the USB jobs use built-in Windows drivers, and everything goes to 16/48 on the way out. The Indigo, though WILL accept a 24/96 signal. I set Media Center 11 to upsample to 24/96. It SEEMS like it sounds a little smoother. But it's very cool to be able to do it! Also, the Audiophile...

Man I hate Detroit fans... And I can't even make myself like hockey! I really tried, too...

Any DAC (the Headroom MicroDAC, the DAC1, the ART DI/O) simply turns a digital signal into an analog one - usually at line level. The DAC1 happens to have a built-in headphone amp which is supposed to be pretty good (maybe along the lines of a $200-$400 amp based on what I recall reading). It's...

A receiver would be fine, but they take up a lot of desk space. You could get a ART DI/O and an amp to go with it.

I signed up for Yahoo the other day. I don't know about the selection size, but I don't mind since I'm not looking for specific things all of the time. I'll just listen to whatever catches my ear. I love the ability to check out new music for cheap. I just wish that there was a flash player...

A lot depends on the kind of phones you're using. If the Micro is having trouble driving what you're using, then a PA2V2 is probably a good fit. If you're looking for extra quality, it seems like most people aren't THAT high on amping a Zen Micro. I use a Karma (which is one of the big boy...

I love this quote - "The rest of us will have to go on using our brains to make decisions when it comes to videogames. We will have to actually think about whether or not it's worth it to buy a console based on our needs." Oh, yeah! Video game decisions are an excellent test of brain power...

From my brief time with and iPod 4G & Karma listening through E3C, I can say this: I could easily tell the difference between the iPod headphone out vs. the line out to my Denon AVR1600 receiver. I cannot tell the difference between the Karma dock line out and the Karma headphone out set...