Hi Everyone,   Just wondering what the recommendations were for a portable powerbank thingy so I can charge my Ipod on the go.     Cheers!

Quote:   The spec for charging an iPad/Pod/Phone are different whether you use a plugpack/wallwart, or a computer.   With a computer, the device has to enumerate (be recognised by the pc) before it will charge. With a wall-wart, the data pins are held at a constant voltage, 2.5v i...

Works with Ipod Touch 4g and a HotAudio DacDestroyer!   If you plug a DacDestroyer in directly, it will complain that there is not enough power.   However you can trick it by putting a simple usb-hub (non-powered!) between the camera connector and the dac.   After which it works...

Edit: went to jaycar down the road from me and bought a pair. 7 day refund policy, so what the hell.   Not to my taste. I the clamping force was incredible! Quite harsh and unforgiving compared to my ath-m50s. Isolation not that great either. I was hoping for something I could use on a...

Not sure if this has been asked before, but how good is the isolation of outside sounds? Could you use them on an aeroplane for instance? They look alot like industrial earmuffs!

Interesting.

Anytime.   I don't know that many cards have onboard transformer isolated outputs, but i think you can make your own pretty easily, if you have a soldering iron. I assume they would just be two RCA female terminations on a box with the transformer inside. What transformer to us I have no...

Scored a Marantz CD-25 from a dumpster diving expedition. You'd think something as fragile as a cd laser pickup would never work again after that, but it did, and still does! :)   Also got some paradigm speakers.   Anybody else scored something relatively nice for free?

Bought a second hand Dual 505 from a garage sale, $10. This is a good used choice because you can get service manuals for free from vinylengine.   It took a while to clean and sort out all the issues (one of the tonearm wires was not soldered on properly). Purchased a new cartridge, an at95...

I have the m50, and the uDac2 (which i don't like). I do however like my HotAudio DacWow, which is hand built by a guy in Canada, and considerably cheaper.

Anybody else using a headless pc running some kind of linux distro with mpd?   I use an old neoware thinclient (233 Mhz Geode processor, 128mb ram), running Voyage Linux on a CF card with a usb dac. Total cost was about $30 (excluding the dac). Works quite well.   I'd be interested to...

EMU makes studio grade cards with spdif and optical out, i have the 1212m pci. It's a bit fiddly though to setup. $100 used.   MAudio makes nice stuff too.

MPD on Voyage Linux with MPoD. Better than a squeezebox, 10% of the price.

Could someone please tell me the height/width of the opening on the m50's? (Just so I can see if they fit me)   Units in millimetres please :D 

Anybody have any experience with these?   http://www.hifidiyshop.com/Wholesale-dac-kit_c887   I'm rather tempted.