Hi head-fiers,   Recently, I got a Clip Zip and have rockboxed it with the latest official release, and am facing an issue with my Etymotic HF3s. With all sound settings turned off, including replaygain, EQ and crossfeed:   There is a distinctly audible treble roll-off with the...

What's the name of the song that was played at the end of legs during the finals of the championship ? It's a dance tune ......and the people went striking their hands up chanting . Help.

Why is it so easy for strangers to enter ones homes via the back door ? Dont you people lock the main doors of your homes or something ? How do you manage to get a good nights sleep ?? This assumption is based on what i see in your soaps/movies.

After reading in some thread about "best albums of 2006" , i went and bought : Return To Cookie Mountain and Grizzly Bear - Yellow House. My brain fails miserably to detect any melody or a logical sequence to the playing of instruments in most songs. Waste,waste of my meager pocket...

Someone who happens to know many details about my personal life has been spamming on orkut,a website that i have never visited before and didnt mean to.... So i request you to send me an orkut invitation,so i can get my identity back. Please, Sushant Gore.

I was wondering what techniques are used by headphone designers to absorb the out of phase sounds emanating from the back of the driver . Do they simply model the enclosure to be round or,is some material used to absorb the sound.....Also,is isolation a function of the material used to make the...

Why does the front out of any of the audigy series cards sound louder than the rear and surround jacks with headphones connected ? I mean the gain for the front opamp cant be set higher than the other channels ,otherwise,when using surround speakers,the fronts would sound louder(but they don't)...

I parents got me a 6GB Neeon and i am not happy with the navigation at all.I realize why peiople get ipods now...... ANyway,according to people here at head-fi,this play isnt supposed to have hissing,right ? Well no,it has hiss.Not the kind of loud hiss but the player plays music against a...

Ok, It's been a year since i purchased these and they have been through a lot of dvd dolby headphone 2 movie watching.But their frequency responses likeability to Dolby Headphone is another matter entirely.This thread is about the absolute tonality of these compared to the Koss UR40(foam and...

I know it has a 5 band custom EQ with frequencies centered at 80Hz,250Hz,1Khz,4Khz and 13 Khz. Now if i reduce the 4Khz by 2 db,upto what frequency does the reduction take place ? i mean both - below and above 4Khz.And what's the slope of the reduction ? BTW,i am sure this thread will...

Both these cards provide a stable +/- 2.5V through some sorta very stable splitter.I played the THX subwoofer test through my HP805 40Ohm phones at a very high volume when measuring the voltages with the PC casing turned upside down. The Input 5V is obtained after being filtered by an ST LDO...

Somethings seems to be wrong with the resistor values mentioned by Tangent in his VGrounds article for an opamp based virtual ground(I cant get a TLE2426) in : http://tangentsoft.net/elec/vgrounds.html That's diagram No : 8 from the top in the above mentioned page. In the diagram 2 Nos of...

I am looking for the usual Top40 sorta pop/rock music released in the past decade whos dynamic range hasnt been killed [some compression will have to allowed to increase the number of entries ]. Start posting ! And no,dont flame me for being a pop lover.I love and own many jazz and metal albums.

Ok,my cmoy PSU uses a UA741 opamp for the ground channel with 22 K Resistor s before it and 10 K at the output of the opamp. Powering from 1 9V cell,i get perfect +/- 4.23 V at the opamp socket.But when i insert in ANY dual opamp(tried 4),the PSU collapses to +7V and -1 V . I have checked the...

I was thinking of making a second cmoy with the high output current AD8397 and a TLE2426 for the rail splitting.The AD8397 datasheet states a worst case max current draw of upto 12 mA when powered by +/- 5V . And the TLE2426 is supposed to sink upto 20mA. So,will it work efficiently ?? I will be...

Many of my hard rock cd's have been limited to 0.4-0.6 db (as reported by SoundForge and Goldwave) instead of 1 db . That is they have been heavily compressed(dynamic range has been killed) and volume reduced.As such,i am forced to turn the volume up/down when tracks from different albums are...

Heres a quote from the soundtrack composer of Toy Story,Sea Biscuit : "A director is a guy who own a CD player and thinks he's an expert on music. True story - directors always like music to be brighter than it is, no matter how bright is already is. On one picture, the director asked me to...

I am looking for a good sounding audio and-or photo portable player for use un-amped with 32-60 Ohm headphones.With prices in mind , i have narrowed my choices down to : iAudio M5 20GB Creative Zen 20 GB Black Ipod 30GB 5G Black The Zen Micro's not on the list because of its...

Hi, Since atleast some of you must be using an eq to cover up the weaknesses of this phone esp.the midrange ,why not post your eq here and say how they compare to some other headphone in terms of tonality ? Thanks.

Hi, I have a Panasonic DVD player with an audio jitter of 170ps measured done by a HiFi magazine.Now,the magazine doenst mention if the measurements were done using the units coaxial or optical out.So,does jitter vary depending upon the the transport medium used ? The players connected to a...

Changed the JRC4556A on my Audigy Value card to the AD8620AR. Result : on my 40 ohm PHilips HP805 , theres no WOWing "improvement" as such to me.Sure,theres a bit more of ambience and atmosphere and a slight recession of mids compared to the JRC4556A but these cons of the JRC are certainly...

First of all : My apologies to Kramer for not believing in him. I put a 100 Ohm metal film resistor in series for the ur40 and the bass BOOM has been almost done away with !.I only have to reduce between 60 and 300 hz by 1-2 db instead of the 3-4 db i used to before the mod. This mod takes...

Me so so mad ! The front out on my Audigy was working fine until i rebooted the computer.Now theres no left sound from the left channel ! The rears and surround outputs are working fine.The cards not hot either and the front right (the working one) isnt distorting either...WTH ? I am so so...

I am planning on replacing the JRC4556 on my sound card with the AD8397.And since the AD8397 is said to have some output dc offset,i was wondering if attaching a capacitor at the output of the opamp would work. And what negative impact would it have on the sound ?

Guys, After jazz i think i have developed a like for rock(i think its rock....). and have the following albums that i absolutely love : Essential Judas Priest(2 cd's) Van Halen - Van Halen Van Halen - 1982 Vintage Rock II (2 cd's) Rammstein - Mutter Rammstein - Sehsuncht ? Best of the...