Béla Fleck: 'Tales From The Acoustic Planet 1,2, and 3', Double Time, Drive Strength in Numbers: The Telluride Sessions Nickel Creek Alison Krauss+Union Station: 'So Long, So Wrong', 'Live' You could spend a lifetime just exploring great bluegrass.

I'm lucky with the shape of my ear canals. I can get a seal with practically ANY tips. I used to use trimmed Etymotic tri-flange tips on my Shure, Ety, and UE IEMS. I should have waited a few days to comment. Either they broke in a bit or my ears got used to them. They have balanced out a bit...

I do not have my Etys anymore but they, along with the UE Super.Fi 5Pro, were the best in-ears I have tried. Flash forward a decade and I'm REALLY satisfied with the $60 Fiio EX1 gen2. They aren't Etys but they are satisfying for their cost. Miss the sweet midrange of both the UE and Etys but I...

Just bought these. Take these comments with a grain of salt because I have not been able to hook them up to a high-quality source and they will be paired with my Samsung GS7 for work, mainly. I'm a bit surprised by the sound. From the descriptions I've read these should NOT be bass-heavy/boomy...

I'm a big fan of all his singing and I like all of the albums but I listen to 'Till the Sun Turns Black' most. As a recording/producing achievement, I think 'Ouroboros' is pretty great, though. It's obvious Pink Floyd inspiration extended beyond the musical composition, imo.

A newer entry that blows me away (especially the LP through my system) is Ray LaMontagne - Ouroboros.

I'm going to guess that's not much love here for them, lol.

I have some LPs that sound soooo good and only a few CDs that are WOW but really I just don't have the time and energy to be an audiophile anymore. Streamed music has come so far and I have access to so much music driving around in my truck with Spotify or Amazon Music. It's not critical...

I've gone full-circle and now appreciate both. I started amassing a CD collection after high school and several hundred albums in I decided to start buying LPs mainly to play on the 60's/70's stereo gear I was buying/fixing/selling. I bought a few hundred vinyl albums but only a handful that...

For some reason I wrote them off a long time ago but I hear a song once in a while that has me pull up an album for a listen. Listening to 'Mechanical Bull' right now. Something I might throw on when driving several hours right before I start to fall asleep and switch to Pantera - Vulgar...

Béla Fleck - Double Time  

I just picked up a Dell box mainly for my wife to be able to work from home. I threw my FLAC collection on it and setup Foobar the other day and when I plugged my Grados in I was pleasantly surprised. This onboard audio sounds much better to my ears than the old Realtek 97 audio on my old PC...

I also think the Super.fi 5Pros were the best IEMs that I tried. I haven't tried a new pair sinse the Triple.Fi came out, but they didn't do it for me either. I tried the Shure e2, e3, e4, e5, SE215. I had and loved the Etymotic ER4s, but still for most music the Super.fis were easier to listen...

I checked on this before i ordered. The output format is selectable and does include PCM stream. I will update in a few days when the unit comes in on how/if everything works out.

Thanks for the recommendation. Add long as it works i can't see how it could be a bad deal @ $25.

My grandparents just bought a new Samsung HDTV and it doesn't have any analog audio outputs. I was kinda shocked but i guess this makes sense to a company that wants to sell home-theater implements along with their TVs. Is the a cheap DAC that will let me do optical and decode whatever the TV...

I would not limit the search to only manual Japanese direct drives. There are very good auto and semi-auto tables to be had for next to nothing. I have a Technics SL-1210 that now gathers dust because I like my JVC JL-F50 much better.It is not a matter of the JVC SOUNDING BETTER, IT'S A MATTER...

Quote: I haven't paid more than $60 for any individual piece of my vinatage gear. It's really awesome to be able to have this good of sound on my shoestring budget. I really put a lot of effort into checking Goodwills and other thrift shops on a regular basis. I ususally go 4-5 times a...

Head-Fi really opened up Audio as a hobby to me. I started off here after I bought a Rio Karma and was looking into new headphones, as many people do. For a long time I was content with my nice IEMs and a portable music player. Then I got the itch to build a "PC as Source" setup with a dedicated...

Quote: Awww come on now... You should at least pass that stuff on if you're never going to enjoy it again! What good is a WIFE anyhow?

Grados aren't that uncomfortable. If you do find them unbearable there are things you can do to improve comfort (search here).

Quote: Originally Posted by Baldeagle58 Agree with others here regarding Old Crow Medicine Show although they have lost site of the plot as far as being pure Bluegrass. The 2 (and there must be others) hot young Bluegrass bands seem to be : 1)Infamous Stringdusters. They have 2...

Quote: Originally Posted by Albinoni So do you prefer the sound to the Fuze or Clip+? Neither, really. I just remember the Fuze sounding more bright. I am totally satisfied with the sound of the Clip+. Quote: Originally Posted by LFC_SL Sansa Clip+ - a set on Flickr...

I went from a Fuze to a Clip+. I think the sound is a little bit different. A friend recently gave me some Etymotic ER4Ps and I was a little suprised when I tried them out with the Clip+ and found that the player was, to my ears, significantly darker sounding than the Fuze. I haven't ABed them...