are there other cable manufacturers to look at besides monoprice for an alternative to the fiio L2 (4-inch 3.5mm-3.5mm cable)?  monoprice doesn't make them that short that i can see.  $10 for a short interconnect isn't prohibitive by any means, but i want to get 6 of them for hooking up switch...

i just got a multimeter yesterday and am trying to match volume levels between amps but having a little trouble.  i'm using the AC volts setting and matching the output of two amps to within .002V, but there's still an audible difference in volume in the headphones.  in googling i found a thread...

Anybody else going out for this on Saturday?  I think I'm gonna have to ditch work or I'd miss all the goodies.  I have about 10 releases on my shopping list (mostly reissues, but a few new things too).  I'm also looking for a fellow board member in Europe to maybe help me pick up 2manydjs' "As...

i'd like to have a little box that just has two switchable inputs and two switchable outputs, in some combination of 1/4" and 1/8", so i can quickly do a/b comparisons on headphones/amps/etc.  is this something that should be pretty easy to do?  i've never done any electronics work at all, and...

i'm not really sure what to search for to see if this has been discussed before, but i'd like to get a little box with (preferably) two 1/4" inputs and two 1/4" outputs with switches so that i can more easily do a/b comparisons of headphones/amps/etc.  does something like that already exist?

i'm looking for something fairly specific and hopefully one of you fine people can point me in the right direction as i haven't found anything in my web trawling thus far. i want a dock for my ipod that has similar functionality to apple's universal dock (connector passthrough for charging...