Recently I have been having problems with my ER6i's eartips (small biflange) getting loose, and to my great discomfort, occasionally stuck in my ears. Now I took a glance at my non-used triflange and big biflange eartips and the tube is clearly smaller in diameter. I wonder if the stretching of...

Toshiba has announced two digital audio players which use methanol fuel cells in place of traditional batteries. A flash player with 3.5ml tank and 35h of play time and a HD player with 10ml and a whopping 60 hours! The technology will be seen in commercial market in 2007. Press release...

Opera is celebrating their 10th anniversary and are giving away free registration codes! Get yours while they last! http://my.opera.com/community/party/reg.dml UPDATE Quote: Originally Posted by shiggins Yup, Opera free for all and no registration code needed, just download the...

Inspired by the thread concerning portable headphone amps at the headphone forum I decided to bench my iRiver H120's headphone output and compare it to a simple CMoy (12V wallwart, NJM4556 op-amp, no pot, minimal design). Testing was conducted using EMU 0404 as the recording device...

I have an ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 9800Pro card and it has a TV-tuner onboard. Normally an audio cable is connected between it and the sound card and the output is quite noisy. While watching TV it didn't bother and I could just mute the input when not watching TV. Yesterday I noticed that...

Does anyone know how the AD823 (or a similar op-amp) performs with a low impedance load with the minimum supply voltage (+3V)? The internal amp in iRiver H120 doesn't seem to like 16 ohm E2Cs and starts distorting even at sane listening levels (THD ~0.4%, but with a not-so-nice spectrum). I...

Hi I wonder how high voltage (in RMS) the card gives out at full scale? I'd like to know now so I can set my diy amp gain correctly to match with my stepped attenuator (coarse steps at extremes..) and I will not receive the card until next week. Thanks

This card goes for ~$30 (froogle.com) and I think it could be a good alternative to the popular Chaintech card for people on a tight budget. 8 channel 24bit / 192KHz DAC from Cirrus Logic with seemingly better specs than the 2 channel Wolfson in Chaintech (WM8728)...

Does anyone know the output impedance of this card (rear jack)? I remember seeing a mention of it by someone (Glassman?), but can't find it with search. Thanks

I was just browsing hydrogenaudio and a saw a topic on this: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/...howtopic=31215 In regular 2 channel mode the 96KHz sampling isn't forced and as the poster there and I tried, the card accepts 192KHz KS from Foobar. How could we make sure that the analog...

Hi I'm looking for music similar to Infected Mushroom's Converting Vegetarians CD2 ("The other side"). I also enjoy Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene, Equinoxe and Magnetic Fields. So, something chilling please

So what's going on here? First the usual status icon (online) was replaced with something different and now the quote button looks like that edit: Aha, quote button is now normal, but statusicon still shows a picture of a fish! So anyone else have this? Something must be messing up with my...

So, where can I get those and do some other Beyerdynamic phone's pads fit DT880? The target phones are supposedly from late 80's if it matters.

Hi I have built the basic cmoy amp to a simple stripboard and there's a problem with noise. Constant hiss even with no source connected. With source connected the noise gets a notch louder (source = Chaintech AV-710 soundcard, with headphones straight to soundcard it's dead quiet). As a power...

In another thread I already wrote about the recording problem with Chaintech AV-710. Problem: When High Sample Rate mode (and thus the Wolfson DAC output) is enabled the card is unable to record and output it to the back channels. The recording tab is greyed out. In some drivers it is...

I noticed there is available an OpenAL output plugin for foobar. I wonder if this can bypass the dreaded Kmixer or have any other benefits over waveOut/Directsound (or even kernel streaming)? I don't know what kind of hardware support OpenAL asks for. At least Creative cards and Nvidia...

By default it hasn't got one, but I wonder if it's possible to mod the card. I see the Chaintech site claiming the card supports "Support SPDIF-IN/OUT" but information about the card is incorrect on other occasions too (Envy24PT <-> HT-S). The PCB has a place (solder pads) for another optical...

It's certainly not available in Finland and google didn't help me. So any users from Europe enjoying cheap chaintech? If it's not available to Europe, is there any other cheap soundcards with good quality DAC (only need 2 channels)? I'm thinking of replacing this Abit NF7-S 2.0 motherboard's...