So my beloved ipod video, with rockbox and SD card mod finally stopped working last night. Made a weird squelch noise through the headphones and has been silent ever since. Oh well, it had a good run.. 3 moves, 2 hemispheres. What portable player should I be looking for that plays FLAC files...

Hey guys, I know there's a billion-page thread on SSD mods for the iPod. But I wanted to ask, what's the most stable way to upgrade the storage on this beast to at least 256GB? Specific part numbers if possible.   I use rockbox and I don't want to be fussing around with software and getting...

I took apart my Pono Player today to check out what's inside.     http://mikebeauchamp.com/2014/12/pono-player-teardown/   It uses an ESS ES9018K2M 32-bit Sabre reference DAC and the headphone amp section seems to be mostly discrete transistors and two large 1000uF capacitors. Nice board...

Thanks to ivant for supplying pictures of the insides of his HD595's in my previous thread (http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f4/hd5...e-mods-403497/). Here are some comparison images between the insides of my HD555's and ivant's HD595's. QQQ said that the HD555 and HD595 share the same...

So I picked up a used pair of Sennheiser HD555's that had a small crack in the plastic. I took them apart to repair the crack with some CA glue. Since I had the HD555's open, I figure I'd snap some pictures.. I'm hoping someone out there will open up a pair of HD595's so we can ACTUALLY see...