Whoa, it's been a while since I posted on this forum! Still rockin' the headphones (K-701's these days), but life/baby/career obstruct me as usual from audiophile nirvana. I'm a doctor in the Bay Area, and a buddy from med school and I have been blowing off steam by posting ridiculous videos on...

It’s rare that a piece of gear, particularly something like a “simple” interconnect, so improves the musicality of my system that I feel obliged to blather in detail about it. I’ve sorta stood on the fence for too long now, and I thought I should give some of my impressions of the latest cables...

OK, the I've got an Ipod 40gb photo and it's great for chillin', but now the wife wants an mp3 player to use at work (with a fringe benefit for me because I can use it to go jogging with, something I can't do with the Ipod). So I need a recommendation for a player that:Is as small as possible...

OK, I've recently ripped my entire CD collection to FLAC using EAC. I use Foobar2000 to listen to the FLACs, and now I want to transcode some of them to MP3 for use in a portable player. I would like to use LAME as the encoder via Foobar. Can someone give me easy instructions with links as...

I just got a pair of 2 foot Signal Cable Silver Resolution interconnects from signalcable.com (on sale for $139 + 8.95 shipping, regular $189). They're a relatively new product, I think. I'm replacing a cheap pair of 1 meter Vampire Wire RCAs, running from my DAC1 to the MG Head. WOW. They're...

I recently decided to FLAC encode many of my CDs and I want to make sure I have bit perfect output using Foobar with the Chaintech AV710, Optical out to Benchmark DAC1. I am currently using VIAs v324 drivers. Using Mr Radars setup guide I use Kernal Streaming, 24 bit padded to 32, with 96k...

I'm currently using Foobar 2000 with a Chaintech AV710, optical toslink out to an external dac. I set it up using Mr. Radar's excellent guide, and everything works well (used to use the analog out, now I'm using the digital out). My problem: everytime I hibernate or sleep my computer, when it...

Here's a question I'm having trouble figuring out: do DVD-audio players allow for digital (coaxial or optical) output of high res (96khz/24bit or greater) 2 channel signals? I know that 5.1 channel high res digital output is not possible currently, but how about two channel (for headphone...

I was listening to Sting's Brand New Day on DVD-audio this evening and noticed that after the last track (track 10, Brand New Day) after about 5 minutes the song ends, there is about 10 seconds of silence, and an entirely new song begins (with lyrics about foxes and hounds and the like)! There...