Hello everyone, I'm looking for a replacement cable for my Shure SRH1540 headphones, and I'm not really finding what I'm looking for, so I thought someone here might be able to point me in the right direction.  I'm not after any audiophile hoopla, just a moderately priced cable that will be...

I haven't seen many posts about the SRH750DJ, but I bought them just a few days ago. They're really fantastic for the money. A little background: I recently sold my Edition 9 and will likely be ordering a JH13 or JH16 within a month or two. In the interim, I was planning to rely on my HD25s, but...

I'm looking for a standalone battery powered DAC with at least optical or coax input, preferably USB as well. The only one I've found is the Headroom Micro DAC, but I can use something larger and was hoping for something more high-end. Anyone know any others that might work?

I'm looking for a top quality portable amp to use with the JH-13 Pro, and I'm considering Headroom's Desktop Portable Amp. Size is not too much of a concern for me, but it does need to be battery powered. My question is, will the desktop portable's extra power and class A circuitry actually make...

A very high quality amp designed specifically for IEMs seems like a product that there would be a strong demand for, but for some reason doesn't seem to exist. There are a few amps built for IEMs, but they all take advantage of the minimal power requirements of IEMs by minimizing footprint and...

With the poor quality of small potentiometers, I now consider this to be an almost essential feature of a good portable amp. There are several recently released and about-to-be released amps with digital volume controls, and I was hoping we could start listing them. State the ones you know of...

It seems the Zune HD outputs s/pdif on one of its pins to its dock--the dock is just an optical converter--so it may be possible to make an adapter to connect the Zune directly to the coax input of a portable DAC without any additional bulk. The problem is that Zune accessories are authenticated...

Hello everyone, My Kenwood HD30GB9 mp3 player's screen is broken, and the DAP's warranty has long since expired (wasn't too keen on shipping it to Japan, anyway), so I'm looking to replace the cracked LCD. Note that only the LCD panel itself, inside of the unit, is damaged. There is no external...

I've noticed that volume normalization is even more detrimental to sound quality than compression, so I want to find a streaming music library that streams in at least 128kbps (preferably higher, of course), has a good selection of music, and does not use volume normalization. Anyone know of...

As the title suggests, I'm looking for an ASIO compatible program that can play DVDs. In the future I'll also be looking for one that can play BluRay disks. Does anyone know of any? Thanks guys!

Hey guys, I was wondering if you could tell me if there are any pro or computer audio forums or classifieds out there where I could buy an E-MU 1616M on the cheap. Also, feel free to suggest other firewire, USB or possibly PCMCIA interfaces that have a MIDI input, headphone output, low...

For my first project I decided to jump in more or less head first, with a 3-channel beta22. I decided on the 3-channel because I couldn't see balanced operation making much of an improvement with my ~30 ohm Ultrasones. I ordered parts from Glass Jar Audio and they came in on Wednesday, and I got...

Hey guys, I'm building a Beta22 and I was planning on building it in balanced configuration, but it seems like the single-ended active ground configuration might be just as good, if not better for the ~30ohm Edition 9. Balanced configuration, as opposed to single ended, would be like driving a...

Hey guys, Today (hopefully) I'm buying parts for a Beta22. I'm going to start with the basic 2-channel configuration with one o22 for now, but once I've successfully built that I'm probably going to expand it to a 4-channel with 4 o22 boards, and one active ground board for driving two pairs of...

Well, I have ald intend to acquire a lot of high-end audio equipment in my house, but my house has really, really, (I can't emphasize this enough) really crappy power. I don't actually know when the wiring was installed, but the house itself is 113 years old. I once connected my laptop...

Can anyone say whether or not such a device is capable of hosting a wifi audio device? If so, this would be a fantastic way of getting a clean digital output, especially if there are any portable wifi audio interfaces out there. Think of it; you could have your wifi audio interface outputting...

I thought it'd be a good idea to start a thread to list and discuss all of the new headphone products being unveiled at CES. From Sennheiser, we're getting a new line of high-end IEMs dubbed the IE-6, IE-7 and IE-8. These all use dynamic drivers as opposed to the balanced armature used in most...

Hey guys, Well, I was planning to recable these headphones eventually anyway, but I guess it's about time to do it since there's been a little mishap . I left my E9 sitting in the middle of our media room floor on top of my Headroom Desktop amp (stupid, I know), and when my brother walked by...

What I'd like to know about are the technical differences between amps that are designed to drive speakers and those that are designed to drive headphones. Someone suggested building this amplifier instead of a beta22 for driving headphones, but after seeing the following graph of the...

Well, I just bought a maxxed headroom desktop w/dps and now I'm seriously in need of a good power conditioner! My house has poop power. It was actually built 112 years ago. I'm not sure when the wiring was installed, but I know it's very old and very poor. This power conditioner will be at the...

I would really like to get my hands on one of these, the only problem is that I haven't been able to find one being sold for less than the retail price of $1275. I'm pretty certain I've never paird retail for anything audio related, and I'm having a hard time stomaching doing this knowing that I...

Hey guys, So a friend lent me his external hard drive full of music, but he uses iTunes and I use foobar, and his hard drive is bigger than mine. Most of his music is in apple lossless with some music in lossy formats. What I need to do is convert all of his lossless files to variable bitrate...

I had a soldering iron that I paid $11 for at Radioshack. It was AC powered and its output could be set to either 15W or 30W, but my mom said she wanted it (and yes, apparently my mother knows how to solder). Now I'm looking to buy my first high-quality soldering iron. I forsee using it for a...

So, this will be my first DIY job (besides modding the X-10v3, but that was pretty minor), but I want you to forget that right now. I plan on going all out! I'll be using it with a Lavry DA10 and an Ultrasone Edition 9. I considered just buying something like a GS-X, but decided I wanted the...

Anyone tried these? A search returns practically no information on head-fi. I guess nobody's tried these because they associate them with the V700 "fart cannons," but they've gotten some great reviews by guitar center customers here. As you can see, they all point out great sound quality. Also...