It's not "traditional pops/stutterings." Kind of hard to explain but when it starts happening music's eventually distorted to the point that it's not possible to listen until it's reset. And the distortion's there till it's reset. Maybe there could be some interference with drivers, but I didn't...

  Eh considering the superb price to performance ratio, and that the only nuisance is the usb input, I'd take the trade. Just don't use USB if you run into any problems with the driver and problem solved.

Questions kinda pigeonhole you into generalised categories. Can't really expect any sort of depth from an online survey though. 

  Oh sound is definitely amazing. I've been using them with HE-560 for the entire weekend and I wouldn't have taken them off at a gunpoint :D Made my portable setup(shure 535se) sound worse than ipod earphones lol

Using USB input for NFB-11 was a headache from the start. Biggest issue's the hiccups and stuttering in the sound fairly frequently. I think the fastest fix is just switching sample and bit ratio to something else and putting it back to 24bit/192   Also the whole unit stops working after...

Been using the newest model (post may 26th) Great neutral+transparent sound, but the USB driver is buggy as hell   Recommend using Coax/optical if you're interested

Yeah, the black plastic fell off the connector lol. I uploaded a picture but apparently I don't have picture permissions so it went to forum moderators    I doubt it's from installing the cable using the plastic bit tho, only touched the cable once - when i was connecting it, and it's either...

Haha thanks, but i meant the connector of the cable fell off the cable.   http://imgur.com/NzyU38p   Sound comes on if i twist it to the right position, but it falls off after a slight nudge so I'll probably have to send these back. Don't really want to try any DIY fix for a 2 day old...

Been using them for couple of days. Extremely impressed and couldn't take them off my ears but the right side cable fell off the connector LOL. I tried twisting it back in, but it falls off after a slight nudge. What a shame