Hooked 'em up today - out of the gate they suck big time, but that's expected. My brand new HD580 were even worse when I got them, and a week later (post 150 hours burn-in) I wasn't able to believe it's the same headphone. Boy, HD201 with the right mode is such a great set of cans ...

Spent 1.5 hours with Orpheus at one of the Boston area meetings (thanks Single Power). Best ever. You have to hear it for yourself to believe, with a quality recording.

HE-90

Wow, I got 'em today ...even though Amazon told me Dec 28. I'll keep 'em under the Xmass tree for now ...

Problem solved, and the credits go to Linuxworks. Thanks a lot. Head-Fi works. I'm not sure what was I doing wrong, but the DAC somehow wasn't locking to the TBAAM. Following your post I tried that again and wow it worked! Windows XP, FB KS to TBAAM @ 16-bit, no DSPs - and the DAC locked...

Nope, TBAAM won't work. That's what I have now - it can't keep redbook pristine, it resamples to 48KHz. I went through a lot of pains to get my DAC bias in check without having any caps in the signal path, and I want to keep the DAC, but it won't process 48KHz I'll get one of the $25 dongles...

Thanks guys, but considering I'm not interested in anything above redbook fidelity is there "a plain and simple" solution along the lines of buffer-clock-decoder/encoder which can be DIY'ed for a day and cost less than a $100. I guess I'm asking for too much ...

I was suppose to see him in a month...and we were looking forward to it...that sucks...well, life is worth losing indeed. Pease, Forever

When I read about the whole deal, sitting on my lappy and scanning Drudgereport, I was chewing on a Subway deli. I was lucky to make it to the checkout I pulled the reciept from the plastic bag and it was $6.47 total. So I paid $7 or whatever the currency exchange say $7 was. Well, "it" works...

3-rd run through it... Simplified well-polished sound, less pretencious, contained, MATURE, easy to listen...just as expected IMO. No Kid A here, no The Bends "Let's get a break from breaking the ice and have a coffee"

Let me see... Bjork Coldplay Cream Dead Can Dance Depeche Mode Dire Straits Dream Theater King Crimson Massive Attack Marillion (w/Fish) Muse Pink Floyd Radiohead Roger Waters Placebo Sigur Ros U2

Quote: Originally Posted by Uncle Erik I use 2003/XP at work. At least one reboot per day. Many lockups, corrupted documents, and on and on. There's definitely smth messed up on hardware or software level. Check the hardware, if you can replace the PSU (I'd say reboots are 60%...

Do NOT resample in FB, probably you messed it up smhow there. 128 MP3 is not transparent even with a low-fi gear, try smth with many instruments like Buena Vista Social Club CD. From 192 and up though your ABX might fail - regardless of the gear. I've tried once with a top-of-the-world gear...

Depends very much on the position in the signal path and the rest of the setup. Check my sig.

Quote: Originally Posted by Thelonious Monk mac computers suck even more Second that. Most Mac people are generally ignorant about Windows mashines, and PC guys don't care about Mac (before they're stuck with one). Being here and there, I'd say Mac OS have more glitches than...

I've seen both ways. If the scene is well elevated, front rows are usually seated. However, depending on the crowd as well...I'd say you're 50/50 here 400 CAD...wow

I'm a MB user and I honestly I think MBP is a ripoff. You'll pay half a grand extra for a slightly better CPU and slightly faster grafics...I won't see any difference except with Google Earth maybe... White MB at 2.0 GHz and 1GB RAM + $30 second skin ~ $1100...and it's all but in-par with our...

Quote: Originally Posted by Drewpy The DAC does not upsample the PCM stream. The audio card's drivers (or Windows KMixer) do that, and do a pretty poor job according to most. Alternative software resampling, such as SRC, will do a better job. This statement it technically...

No No No, I never do...have more respect for the DAC - it's DACs job to (up)sample, and it does it best.

Hmm, I'm using Toslink and I have no problem with it. That'll be the last thing I'll care about - all (possible) software resamplings, DAC flavor or (heaven forbid) capacitors in the signal path will make much more of a difference. Spend ALL the time it takes to make sure you get NOS...

Our undergrads bought the WES51 and use it on daily basis. It's too small for my hand, temperature control is a pain (have to reset every time it goes into sleep mode), and it's not powerfull enough even for not-so-thick ground plane. I'm using it solely for SMT.

Quote: Originally Posted by 4metta Perhaps I should edit my first post that makes it sound like the macbook sounds like crap. Not to my ears. MB's audio far better than any notebooks I had in the past. Even unamped. Resolution is OK, the top is flatish (which I like) and bass is...

MB doesn't sound bad even with low-ohm cans like HD201 or PortaPro to my ears...not sure I'll go for anything...damn, have to update my sig

When you kill the fans, you'll start hearing harddrives. It never ends, just like here...

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