Hey all, I just upgraded the circuit in my uDAC to that of the uDAC2. All is working well, but I've noticed that when I start a song in Foobar2000, the first second of the song is silence - although the visualizations show that the song is playing and registers the signal, the actual sound...

I searched for a related thread but only found one from several months ago which I didn't want to resurrect.   Anyway, is there any word on the new earphones from Maximo, the iM790? I've heard great things about the iM590 and considered buying a pair only to hear that the company was working...

Hey all, I recently got a pair of Grado SR80i (I guess you could say these are my first real headphones). I've clocked about 40 hours on them and have noticed some pretty substantial changes in sound quality through the burn-in period, and expect only greater changes to come down the road.  ...

Hey all, I'm going to a show this weekend; the bands playing are Mastodon, Between the Buried and Me, Valient Thorr, and Baroness. To make it short, this will be a long show and it will be loud. The club where the show will be hosted is supposed to very small, and I have a gut feeling that the...

Hey, so I've decided to make the Etymotic HF5s my first real IEM after much debate, and a question just recently popped into my head: I'm a musician and play drums at my local church, where we use personal mixers and IEMs on stage. I'm wondering if the HF5 is durable enough to stand up to...

Okay, I'll get to the point. This is a totally new world to me. Music is my life, but it's only been within the past two years or so that I've really begun to listen to music as it should have been heard in the first place. So here I am, doing research on IEMs and (mostly) at a loss as to where...