I'm after your suggestions for a new cartridge for my 1Xpression (the original version). Currently it has the stock OMB 10 - I had thought about just getting an OM 20 or 30 stylus (this has the advantage of letting me swap back to the 10 for the records with ahem, a slightly more rugged history)...

So prior to purchasing my ipod classic, I was running the last version of iTunes to be supported by multiplugin and using foobar to output via Kernel Streaming. This is my preferred option. After being forced to upgrade for the sake of my new ipod I obviously couldn't use multiplugin anymore. I...

From my point of view this is pretty one sided. Dylan is almost the centre of latter 20th century music for me, but he has nothing as compared to the man in black. I was just wondering how everybody else felt! You views please!

Never mind Bond villains, check out what my Government built near to where I live in the UK during the cold war... http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/under...ty/index.shtml Oh, and for the god of headfi, go to the interactive map, and click on the Radio room. Check out the tube amps they have!

...this is primarily aimed at XP users- do you run the standard TCP/IP settings? I ask because having been mildly underwhelmed by the maximum download speeds I had seen on my ADSL2+ connection (about 750K/s), I just downloaded a utility called Unblocka, which optimises the TCP/IP settings for...

Just after I get my portable rig working again. The top popped off, so I just popped it back on, then found that one channel didn't work- seems one of the wires had broken off the solder joint. I tried to fix it but ended up making things worse. Does Turbo still make docks? I've not...

Well at the moment this is strictly pipedream stuff, since it's gonna be a while before I have much disposable income, but I'm just curious about the best way to take my rig forward. Currently it is (as listed below) based around use of my TT, CD player and computer (using my MD deck as a DAC)...

Anybody know what's happened to this place? Is it down permanently or just temporarily? I wanted to check out some of their vinyl...

I've come across one bug only so far with iTunes 7.0.1, and it's an annoying one- no matter how many times I run the program, it WILL NOT remember my preferences (with the exception of the multiplugin prefs, but I assume it is Multiplugin remembering those, not iTunes). Every time I quit and...

As per subject title, how are you finding using iTunes 7.0.1 for Windows? I've so far resisted upgrading from the last, rock solid version of iTunes 6, but since I have totally failed to get the Foobar passthrough of Multiplugin working using this setup, I'd really like to get MP 2.4.2 and...

Grr, I'd nearly finished writing this post, practically an essay by my standards, and the crappy laptop I'm having to use on the net at the moment crashed! Anyhow, I'd better rewrite it... A week ago today I picked up a package from our local Post Office. It was a Mapletree EAR+ HD...

Hey guys, not sure if this is the best place for this question, but I am in need of two 1" long 6-32 machine screws- quickly. I was wondering if any of the Aussies on the board new of somewhere I could find these- chain stores would be good cos then I could just pick some up from my area...

This evening I finally got around to installing ASIO4ALL and the FooTunes extension, and am now listening to my iTunes library via Foobar2000 and ASIO. I don't know whether it was caused by resampling to 48KHz or some other Kmixer nasty, but I always got terrible fatigue when listening from...

Do any of you guys find very often that you buy an album, don't listen to it much at all, forget it, and then chance upon it years later only to discover it is actually fantastic? It's like a great present to yourself with no money spent, but it makes me wonder why I didn't listen to the album...

That's right, it's that time again! Since I don't even know how much I'm getting yet, I'm very much in the early stages of deciding whether to spend at all, or just hoard it for later, but if I were to send my tax return to the god of all that is Head-fi (sorry Jude, I don't mean donate it...

This week I finally got my wife a Nano, and I want to get her some decent phones to replace the ibuds with. She will mostly be listening to it on the train on the way to work, so although I could lend her my PX100's, my own experience with them on the train tells me it's a one way ticket to...

I'm not sure if anyone will be able to help me with this one, but I'm looking to hook up my ipod to my Sony head unit. Thanks to the delightful tactics of Sony, the line-in isn't really a line-in - it won't work without control from a 'cd changer' on the bus-socket. There is a really cool...

Where the hell can I pick one up? I want to run my 4G with a Pocketdock so I can get a true line in. So I need a car charger which terminates in a 6 pin firewire cable rather than a dock connector. Ebay has failed me. Any ideas?

I only ordered on Thursday and it arrived in Aus today. Gary's excellent service reputation is definitely justified. I've given it a couple of hours listening since I got back from work and I'm a happy bunny... biggest bonus of all is that the bass on my Etys is really boosted, in a way that...

Hey guys, I was just wondering if anyone who has dealt with Drew could give me an idea of how long he usually takes to respond to an email...is MA just him? It's been a couple of days since I sent him an email. If so I suppose he could be out of town at the moment, I don't want to pester him...

Yes it is my birthday today and since i finally killed my MINT the other day (a sad occurence indeed, I was not a happy bunny) I just bought a PA2V2 as a budget replacement and am about to place an order for a Moon Audio Black Dragon IC. I realise the IC may be a bit of an overkill on that amp...

Well my 4G black and white 40GB is showing the first signs of a dying HD- yesterday it did the whole skipping songs, not mounting, then folder icon business, and the HDD scan in diagnostic mode finished after 10 seconds or so. As a last resort I opened it up intending to pull the battery for a...

I posted a while ago looking for suggestions for replacing my MINT. The reason was that not long after I got it, the left channel developed a short (just hiss). I sent it back for (free) repair. The amp came back with a note to be careful of stressing the jacks cos they're not braced. Ho hum...

Hey guys, I've not been over on this board before (usually stay on the headphone board) but I was after a little bit of advice... I have a MINT amp which I bought from Headphonic in Perth. I mainly use this with my ipod but sometimes also with my home rig. Most of my listening lately has been...

I'd like to buy a new soundcard to supersede the crappy onboard Soundblaster on my machine. I'd like a digital in as an easy method of recording at decent quality from the radio and my lps (using my Minidisc deck as an A-D converter). A digital out would be nice but not essential, but low s/n...