Well, my Susvara was connected to Ragnarok2 for the night, music paused, amp on (not doing that again, just for peace of mind). The system has a PS audio power plant P3 for clean power (we hope) and protected by a rackmount Cyberpower UPS. Dac is Holo May. Susvara fine in the night. Only...

ibasso.com down...wonder for how long?

Hello all,   Just a friendly warning to be careful of what you read.   A very well respected manufacturer of connectors, claims that a particular connector has Teflon insulation.  There aren't a whole lot of this sort of connectors with this sort of insulation.  However, if you take a 350F...

Hello all.   *Disclaimer - I don't sell Piccolino cables - this is just for fun*   Finally found the right way to prepare Piccolino without an expensive automatic stripping machine.  The key to any problem like this when you have a new wire and want to find a way to strip it perfectly...

I'm sure everyone's curious about these, so here goes.     The dock adapter has a plastic shell on it that is glued.  You can't cleanly get it off without the dremel, as the glue is not hot glue, that I can tell.       Once you get it open, there are 2 stick-on metal heat shields, that...

Everybody knows and loves it, right?  Head-fi is certainly in a bit of a flap about the new Lightning plug, as is the rest of the world, since it's a big departure.  I've got a few Lightning cables on hand so the point of this thread is to be a permanent source of information on this plug since...

I have a plug that I like:       Its body appears to be made of polished black aluminum.  It has a UE logo inscribed into it, so that silver UE is bare metal basically.  I wish very much for this UE to be gone, for the plug just to be black.  My IEMs are not UE.  Of course I could...

Not sure if I'm the first to notice this, but the HM801 is gone from Hifiman.com and Head-direct.com.  Perhaps the new player is coming sooner than we think.  Hifiman is certainly taking the DX100 seriously.

I've noticed with the last few rolls (from different suppliers/brands no less) of tinned copper braid shielding (3/16" size) I've bought have had serious quality problems and I've had to scrap them.  I'd have gotten refunds but the service has not been good from the places selling them...

How many of you use one of these horrible things?     I've gone through about 4 of them.  They blow.  So, I've been looking for something nicer and more long lasting with better functionality.  It took a while but I finally found this:  ...

Anyone get word on whether this is available, and the cost, to upgrade the old Rev. 1 drivers to Rev. 2?

  A: They're both winning.   So, I finally broke down and bought some LCD-2 -  the following is my short review.     After about a month on the list, they sent me their link to their payment page.  The cans shipped the same day, and even though I ordered regular shipping, they shipped...

Please delete, moving this thread to Headphones, posted it here by accident.  

Hello all.   I go through a crapton of solder, and it makes me a bit nervous all of that lead exposure, although I try not to eat my meals with the same hands I solder with.  The Quad Eutectic solder from Cardas contains lead and it's my favorite solder, you really can't screw something up...

I'd like to take a moment to celebrate solder pots.  I got a $30 Tenma one in the mail today from MCM electronics.  Along with $25 worth of bar solder (a pound).  After heating it up for about 10 minutes i put in the solder bar, end first.  It merrily chewed away at it until it was full of...

Just got my Pelican today.  It sounds really damned good, like a baby B22, when fed by my Boomslang.  I figure everyone would like to see inside.  FYI, it has 4 permanent opamps on the back (not sure what they do), 4 rollable opamps on the front side (OPA604s from Burr-Brown) and 4 rollable...

Remember this little hullabaloo from back in 2008, when PCX was busted for circumventing the US distributor of Oyaide products (Lotus Group USA) and buying from a "3rd party" in Japan, and it turned out they were selling fake Chinese Oyaide (for full retail Oyaide price!) ?  ...

To help everyone out on head-fi get the job done with pretty much every sort of cable, I've putting up my pinouts notebook.  All the latest connectors are covered although I may be missing a few, just let me know what to add.  If people like this maybe it could get stickied.  ...

So, one area in my system I'm undecided about is my digital cable.  I have a self-made all-furutech parts silver one as well as a professionally crimped blue jeans audio one made of ordinary parts.  They both sound pretty nice.  I am a bit curious as to whether upgrading to something fancier...

Well, as very few of you may know, I'm an avid fan of carbon fiber sleeving. It's good for just about everything and looks cool to boot. However, I only ever knew that Techflex had it...and it always cost me $1.50 per foot. Just recently I found Soller Composites, who sells 1/4" sleeve for 70...

Someone had to do it. What is it - successor to the Reference 1 flagship DAC from Audio-gd. Flagship DAC with balanced and current-mode outputs, eight PCM1704UK chips, triple-mono power supply (separate board, transformer, and power circuitry for left/right decoding/output stages and digital...

So, I got my S:flo2 today. Just some very quick impressions, photos and full review to follow. Quick refresher for those of you who don't know what this is. It's an all-in-one Chinese-made music device that is iPod sized with a flash card slot and 8 gigs or 16 gigs of built in memory. It...

Just thought I'd give out a public service announcement. Valab sells some pretty nice looking stuff for cheap on ebay (vintage audio lab). Almost, too nice. Here's the info. Gold Plated 3.5mm 1/8 Stereo Audio Connector 2 pcs - eBay (item 300366943258 end time Dec-13-09 19:29:14 PST) I...

I think by not ever posting threads like this, I've earned the right to post one rather than wade through lots of threads. My old Sony turntable is busted. I have a small cheapo phono stage, but I want a new, decent turntable that may/may not have a built in phono stage. I don't want to...

Blackbody - $959.00 : LessLoss high end audio power cables, video power cables, audiophile power cables, audiophile cables Looks pretty fascinating! Thoughts?