Just wanted to share my latest project.   Got a pair of XBA2's with a bad joint at the Y for incredibly cheap. Yesterday I re-cabled it with Apple EarPod cables and the sugru just dried up and they work great!   I had to use a hairdryer for a long time to loosen the glue. Be very careful as...

Thought I might share.   I love the ease of insertion of earbuds and their semi environment-aware noise blocking, especially in the office.  When the apple earpods came out was eager to like them but I found myself reaching more often for my old-old e808s that came with sony portable minidisc...

I have spotify premium and set to high quality and I've noticed quite a lot of distorting.   windows 8.1 -> spotify -> odac -> o2 -> hd600   For example:   https://open.spotify.com/track/5WjDmjD39LsFCRRALhorjd   right at 0:40 when Jack starts singing "I got you" and every time...

Friend gave me his se530's as the cables are fraying and I'll be trying my hand at recabling them. They still work great otherwise. He only had the large olives. Anyone with big ear holes able to give me a set of your small olives? I have all kinds of tips but the inner diameter of the shures...

Netgear makes a powerline adapter set with built in airplay support (powerline adapters uses the home power line grid as your network grid)   The specific model is xaub2511   Just picked up one of these units and discovered that the DAC part of the airplay functionality is a USB cable. The...

Especially with foam tips, getting that perfect seal is an art and it takes time, only to be ruined by:   "Hey.....hey.... HEY!!...."   with painful hesitancy, you pull out one side of your in-ear monitor, awaiting the important dialogue to follow..  "What was the name of that youtube...

I have tiny ear holes so if I were to buy a pack of sony hybrids, I'll have at least two unusable sets. If someone who has larger earholes would like to co-purchase say two packs, we could swap. I would keep the small and xtra smalls and you would give me your small and xtra smalls for my...

I'm in London now (been here 11 months now, from USA) and I need to order a $2.50 part from AMB labs. Actually may not necessarily be from there (WM8501GED/V) Do any london DIYers here order large amounts together to save on shipping?

I just need a couple. where or who can I get them from without paying out my nose? *frustrated*

anyone look into the chips on these? I believe it's an ALC272 chip. After looking through the datasheets, it has 2 SPDIF outs and also a pair of headphone amps designed to drive headphones without DC blocking capacitors. Looks cool. I'm thinking about pulling out these pins into 4 of the...

Finished the γ1 today. Sorry, no pics yet. I still need to drill out the faceplates. The build is to the T from AMB's BOM and is the full setup. Although difficulty wise it isn't much different than the mini^3 with a few more SMD parts, it did have many more components which makes it a bit...

The other day my brother came in town to pay me a visit. I've been telling him about my recent head-fi fascination. Being a tech head himself (he's well known on candlepowerforums.com as 4sevens) he was eager to hear what I've been up to. I subjected him to my DIYmod ipod > mini^3 > D10001...

strictly my opinion. DIYmod > Bantam DAC DIYmod - Bass is fuller, overall a warmer sound and the soundstage is noticeably wider Bantam - tight, very clean and balanced sound. Compared to the diymod ipod it sounds thin at times. One thing to note is that the bantam is setup with...

I'm pretty sure the bantam dac could drive some low impedance headphones couldn't it? With my KSC75's (60ohms) and my D1001 (32ohms) it starts distorting badly like it's overdriven at medium/high levels. You think some tweaks with the coupling capacitors could help? I currently have...

Yay! I finished my Bantam DAC. http://chows.smugmug.com/photos/523778121_avDHg-S.jpg I got a good scare soldering the SMD PCM2702 chip. The culprit was simply a bridge between two pins that I didn't catch. On it's maiden power up, the LED lit and the USB device drivers properly loaded...

I got the box with plastic ends and drilled them out by hand. little off center but good enough to match the nature of DIY Don't know how I'm going to do the labels yet. anyone have ideas?