I have a set that I had made decades ago. Unfortunately, they had a tendency to break the plastic tips of the older model ER-4s. And while they worked great at home, less the same degree of isolation that I get from the triple flange, they looked profoundly dorky when on the street or subway.

I did not know about these. Let me check them out. Thank you so much!

I'm a long-term Etymotic ER-4s user, having first purchased these in 1998. They've been my primary IEM since then. I don't use them as much for listening as I use to, for various reasons - none having to do with a dissatisfaction with the sound. But I will add that for overall noise reduction...

Another option is for me to build a modern machine! Might be easier. But I just wanted to know if anyone else had encountered this. Thank you!

The only problem with Daphile - and I use it - is that my installation has a curious tendency to occasionally stall out during use. One moment the music is flowing, the next it's suddenly stopped (even if the interface indicates that the track is still continuing). I've upgraded to every...

Anybody try swapping out the battery on a N3? Mine is beginning to run down pretty quickly (or quicker than I remembered...) and I saw that someone is selling a alleged replacement battery on Aliexpress. Anybody try doing this repair?

Watched these Tilson-Thomas Mahler programs (from the SF Symphony's Keeping Score series) last week. They are now being steamed by the orchestra via youtube. Keeping Score - Gustav Mahler: Origins - Keeping Score - Gustav Mahler: Legacy - Highly recommended for the storytelling. Even...

I've been building my own PCs for more than 20 years, and the big advantage is that you know what is going into your build, and you decide on which compromises you are willing to live with. I'm routinely shocked by the compromises that major PC manufacturers make in order to save a few dollars...

Interesting thread. I'm primarily a classical orchestral listener looking to potentially upgrade from DT880s - which I generally like, but am always looking to improve on. I've owned planar loudspeakers (Apogee Acoustics) now for more than 30 years, so I've been curious about how the...

I assume that you Windows 10 advocates are shutting down all kinds of background services when running music. For me, the constant interruptions in the audio stream became too intrusive in any version of Windows that I've used - although I have been considering an at least partial move back to...

Kimmo (the developer of Daphile) tends to discourage use of the RT-Kernel version. In a distro tailored to do just one thing, play back music, in a PC with sufficient processing power, the latency issue shouldn't arise. As I understand it, the RT-Kernel comes more into play in music production...

I've been using Daphile for the better part of two years. I boot it from a USB flash, although the developer writes that this is not the ideal way to use it. Still, I want my media PC to be a multi-function entertainment machine - and thus need a full-featured Linux OS on the hard drive to...

Well, I've pretty much abandoned headphones except in high noise environments (like the Subway) because of my tinnitus.  I tolerate the tinnitus much more gracefully when listening through the big loudspeakers.  The hiss is there, but I can listen through it more easily.    I had an...

Got mine yesterday, simply plugged it into to my home media center with no burn in, and found it extremely musical.  CDs with a tendency to be ever-so-bright had no unpleasant edge at all, and the DAC had this very preliminary impression of a touch of warmth.     Again, this is just out of the...

Based on the advice of people here and over at Computer Audiophile, I ended up with Lubuntu and Daphile (with Puppy Audio as a backup).  I run both Daphile and Puppy from a bootable USB drive.     I also have an older machine with Audiophile Linux 2.1 installed - but I stayed away from 3.0 &...

Tried this this morning and it appears promising, at least through headphones.  The only challenge so far is that of keeping the screen from turning itself off automatically every ten minutes or so (which eventually forced my flat screen TV to turn itself off). 

Let me second the concept of "not listening to your tinnitus".   I went to my first live musical events in many years last week, and because I was so drawn into the visuals on stage, my tinnitus didn't even register at all.  I didn't even notice it once during the performances, whereas within...

  Yep.  It doesn't appear to much of an issue except when "listening critically to music" (which is I loved to do) and it can become a bit louder later in the evening (which is probably an indication that I'm becoming mentally fatigued).  But during normal activities, I often don't notice it. ...

Since you asked, I have an old Bel Canto DAC1 that I've owned since the turn of the century, and I had the opportunity last year to compare it to an HRT Microstreamer that I picked on an impulse.    To do as a fair comparison as possible, I connected the Bel Canto through a Trends Audio UD-10...

I've used AP Linux 1 and 2 on old hardware that I simply had sitting around, and thought highly of it.  I haven't gone to 3 (Arch Linux) yet, largely because I had questions whether its built-in drivers would play nice with a brand new AMD Kabini-based build  - whose hardware I wanted to make...

I developed mine about 3 years ago - and I'm not sure what it came in response to: more than a decade of of having Etymotic ER-4s jammed up my ear canals, playing my DT-880s too loud over a couple of months, upping the dosage of my then statin drug (Zocor), long-term hearing loss (which I don't...

Had mine for a couple of months, and loving it so far.  Only comparison is to a 12 year old Bel Canto DAC-1 connected t0 my PC through a Trends Audio converter - and this approach is both much, much simpler and sounds very good to me.  Price was right as well (a demo model from Audio Advisor). ...

  1. Are you familiar with SACD? DSD? SACD, yes.  DSD, vaguely.   2. Do you own any SACDs?    I don't think I do.    3. If so, what percentage of your collection is SACD vs CD or files?   I've ripped every CD I currently own to FLAC.  When buying product, I still tend to...

For those of you still using this card, there are new drivers available that finally install the Audio Deck as part of the setup process in Window 7.  Here's the link to the 32 bit version.   http://www.viaarena.com/displaydrivers.aspx?PageID=1&OSID=54&CatID=3480&SubCatID=107   I was...

Good to know.  Thanks for that update.