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    Astell&Kern XB10 Extreme Bluetooth Adapter

    Brief impressions - listening through CIEMs (Null Audio A3H v2) on Samsung S7 Edge, using the unbalanced 3.5mm output. Sound: Higher noise level than even my Mee Audio X7 Plus headset. (This gets fairly distracting on quieter songs) Soundstage seems narrower than X7 Treble details clearer and...
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    Astell&Kern XB10 Extreme Bluetooth Adapter

    I'm thinking of buying a replacement cable for my CIEMs with an integrated mic (conference calls would probably never sound better). If you are also using earphones with an integrated microphone, how does it work together with the microphone on the XB10 puck itself? For example, are there any...
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    HeadAmp Pico Portable Amp (w/ optional upsampling 24/96 USB DAC) Pre-Order Thread

    Hi Justin, I'm ordering for rhadtheman (#170) in exchange for his current Pico. The Pico is to be shipped to his address, while I make the payment. ORDER: Bronze Pico with DAC 1 ft USB cable I'll email you with more details. Many thanks!
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    HeadAmp Pico Portable Amp (w/ optional upsampling 24/96 USB DAC) Pre-Order Thread

    Quote: Originally Posted by jamato8 Do you mind blemishes? There might be some fingerprints embedded in the finish as the amp was pried from someone's hand. Just a thought. Good luck though and I do understand. Hahaha--"you can pry them from my cold dead fingers." If you're...
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    HeadAmp Pico Portable Amp (w/ optional upsampling 24/96 USB DAC) Pre-Order Thread

    Hi guys, I was wondering if one of you could help me out. I'm very much interested in the Pico but will be leaving the US at the end of the month. Since I'm not a fan of customs and international shipping, I'm completely willing to pay full price for a Pico w/ DAC shipped to me by mid-Feb...
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    iPod Decoder Problems

    ...I have a similar problem with my 20 gig ipod, using lame 3.92 and a setting I looked up here... something like --b something. ...I changed it recently to the --alt setting but haven't encoded any mp3s yet. The songs sound very harsh, like the singer's in bitter-tasting water. Shrillish and...
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    Tivoli PAL

    Phwoar! I just receive my PAL today and man! My IPOD sounded jaw-droppingly good through it! It's astonishing how good it can sound! I can't really speak relatively, except that this knocks the socks off the last boombox I heard (a dismal eighties affair). Considering that I mostly hear this...
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    iPod Decoder Problems

    I was horribly surprised when I found out that the 15 CDs I just spent hours ripping onto my hard drive sound like extremely sub-par AM quality... Horribly horribly surprised. But after a month of putzing around feeling too lazy to suck up a weekend experimenting with bitrates, and listening...
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    Tivoli PAL

    Quote: Brown??? Hey, why not have some fun with colors?... Oddly enough, this twenty-year old is looking for class (...in all the wrong places). And I quite concur with macdef's endorsement: the brown and pearl are definitely top-hat-and-tails classy. I definitely want to hook up...
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    Tivoli PAL

    Thanks MarkO and MacDef! Crutchfield and AudioAdvisor both have the same faded dull brown PAL pictures that turn me off--but your recommendation, Mac, lingered in my mind since I asked you last, so I had to make sure. Thanks again for the help...
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    Tivoli PAL

    ...which color reproduction is more accurate? Audioadvisor's (left) or Tivoli Audio's website (right)? 'cause I'm a jonesin for the gorgeous deeep Tivoli brown.
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    Tivoli PAL

    Hmmm! What free shipping?
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    portable speakers

    Does anyone know if the Tivoli PAL works okay as a portable speaker albeit its monoaurality? Good sound, good volume output... This would be for casual group listening. Sorry for hijacking the thread, theREALsean--but I definitely would love to hook up my ipod to good portable speaker/s too...
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    Happy Birthday MacDef!!!!!!!!!

    Happy Birthday! Time to take the ol' robot out for an oilin'!
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    Happy Birthday PianoBlack!

    awww shucks.. Thanks fellas. ...and I did get the Ipod for my birthday. My parents are *nice*. Beyond reason.
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