I've been a member of the site since 2005 but recently my account has been disabled due to the unfortunate event of logging in using both Hotspot Shield (US IP address) and mobile phone internet account (local IP address) and thus appearing on the opposite side of Earth within 5 minutes. From...

A group of 4 guys are going to Europe(Italy, Austria, Czech and Germany) this coming May for about 3 weeks. What places do you suggest us to go? Ideally each country gets about 5 days each. All of us are students and thus on a very low budget. We do not mind scenery, musuems, culture and things...

While i was trying to find out the cost of upgrading from personal to premier account, I was clicking around in paypal. 2 mins later, I realised I was suddenly upgraded to premier without any much of a confirmation. 20 mins later, I haven't found out how to downgrade. I click around but it all...

Recently I bought a Stax Sr-x Mk3 normal bias. Later on i found the left side is softer than the right. What could be the cause of it? I opened it up and the wires are really thin and fragile. Could it be the wires? Will changing a cable help? Or is it the membrane or the electrodes?

I'm a recent owner of a Stax Classic II system (313 + 303) and I've got to say it is one of the best value in the headphone world. As this is my first electrostatic headphones/speakers, there are some things i need to clear up. 1. Is there really a need for the Stax earspeakers to be playing...

I have a M-Audio Revolution 7.1 soundcard outputting a digital signal to my Ack dAck 1. Using foobar2000 to play udial via the soundcard is perfect with no weird sounds at all at default settings. But if i tried to output it to my DAC, it is not good with various type of weird sounds...

Feeling bored, I decided to make measurements of my equipment using the version 5.4 of RMAA. The stars of show are Revolution 7.1 soundcard, Denon DCD-835 and NEC MultiSpin 6Xe. It is by no means conclusive or statistically significant but I tried my best to make it so. All tests were repeated...

Having recently received a dac, I eagerly tried the digital coaxial out from my Revolution 7.1. But there was no sound! I tried KS,waveout, directsound and ASIO but nothing works. In the end I fixed the problem by installing the lastest generic drivers from VIA. Any ideas how to enable digital...

Currently i am thinking of upgrading my source and i am looking towards the Tubedac kit at $200 together with a power supply which might add up to $350-400 including labour. Now a used audio note dac zero pops up for roughly the same price. I believe both are using the same non upsampling...

There are threads about albums that you bought and liked it. How about listing some that you bought recently but hated it? Reasons too. For me: 1. Massive Attack vs Mad Professor - No Protection Having owned all the proper albums of massive attack and liking them, I thought i might as...

I was wondering if I copied the CD via EAC and burn it, will the copied CD remain as a HDCD? I am unable to test this as I do not have a HDCD player. How is HDCD implemented?

Are there any linear psu for countries with 230V output like Hongkong and Britain? Been asking around but have yet to find them. Thanks!

Is a cmoy or a CHA 47 better for the 501s? I prefer a warmer sound to it. And how do I make the amp more powerful?? I might buy a ET 4p (with adaptor) in the future so it's best that the above amp sounds good with it too. Thanks!

I am now deciding on 2 portable cd players which are the above models. I prefer the sony against the panasonic for its better sound quality. However one thing i don't like about sonys are that they fail within an unreasonable time frame, about 1 year for my 2 sony cd players. I also have 2...

I have a Sony D-250 discman and it looks identical to the D-25s except it is black in colour. Is it the same as the D-25s? However the problem is it doesn't work. I have the original AC adaptor and when plugged in, it just spins (quite loudly) with no track in the display.I wonder if Sony...