What's happened to the ibasso site? Been done for ages...

$300 US will be max I'd spend on a high quality DAP. Also since it only has 64GB (less than half of what I have as portable) certainly wouldn't want it to have a high price tag- as that means I'll have to buy another 64GB Microsd. And even then two 64GB drives isn't exactly amazing.   Solid...

ubercaffeinated, no problems with my Rockboxed clip+ 3.10, playing from 8GB Microsd card

went for soundmagic e10's. Use noisy machines so having IEM's will block out more noise than earbuds.

What I did   1) Upgrade stock firmware using sansa updater 2) Disconnect, let clip do firmware upgrade 3) Reconnect to PC load Rockbox updater, select drive and culip+, click install bootloader and install rockbox, have copy of .16 stock clip+ firmware on your HD. Let it mod and copy the...

Seen this on ibasso site, a few things   1) Hate touchscreens would rather prefer LCD and hard buttons 2) More storage, ok cards allow you to upgrade as prices for higher capacity cards lower, but at the moment I'd like somewhere around 120GB storage, with room to upgrade.  3) Open...

How are decent buds for bass? Most are very tinny, the only decent earbuds I've owned are from a aiwa tape player.    I don't want inline volume control

Need a cheap pair of ear buds for work, powered by sansa clip+ 

Really no need to go uber quiet with totally passive system. My htpc has two very low rpm fans and virtually silent. 2.5" HD for boot, and 5400rpm WD green drive for music. You don't hear any HD clicking or whine. very very low whirr but it's no louder than a CD spinning away.

\artist\album\track - title   but I guess for classical pretty difficult.

Don't have clip but highly recommend Rockbox, haven't used stock firmware since installing it.

5.1 full speaker system is great, ie in Fall Out 3 the following companions are heard behind you, and great in FEAR..scary

I've got NHT speakers in the same finish. I'd leave them, the finish is a gloss piano black. Leave it alone unless you're a wood restorer.

As a owner of few SVS's, recommend SVS SB12+ or perhaps SB13-Plus

Ideal when speed isn't needed ie for music and videos. Lower power consumption and heat.

any gaming soundcards that zero background noise? With X-Fi get whining/buzzing noise. Don't want to sidegrade to av amp. for digital audio

Who are you replying to? Of course anything that converts digital to analogue has a DAC inside, but things like analogue pre-amps and stereo receivers don't have DAC's in them. Which is what I said.

probably combined 3.5mm optical & line out, like the iriver h140's. Some Creative Lab soundcards had this combined digital/analogue output

rofl copter.   anyway you don't need much, something like a MATX or Shuttle computer, with a dedicated sound with quality SPDIF output. Winamp or Foobar with ASIO/WSASPI plugin. Or you could just use a squeezebox. Far better than computer- has a screen, and slimserver software is really...

I have a 83 and happy with it :0)

I bet £10 they just happen to sell audio technica ath-m50

"But what you want to look for in a DAC is 192Khz/24-bit Sample rate. What this means in simple terms is audio quality. The higher the better."   /facepalm. Sorry but you're mistaken, there is far more to sound quality than "better specs"    A DAC takes a digital audio signal from your...

". All the speakers must be of equal distance to your head, to get the best experience."   Incorrect. You use the speaker distance and levels setting in your av processor. They don't need to be equally distant.   franklyfresh, for a stereo Hi-Fi you need those two types of components...

"Headphones will give you better positional audio (called soundstage to audiophiles) than a 5.1 or 7.1 speaker system ever will, with the proper audio source."   snigger. Sorry but afraid you're wrong. Do you have a 5.1 speaker system? I've played with phone Dolby Headphone and went back to...

yeah. I'd also upgrade your soundcard, or ideally look into a DAC (stereo) and pickup a soundcard with a quality SPDIF output (bit perfect, stable output etc) This is over your budget but want something along the lines of   http://www.rotel.com/NA/products/ProductDetails.htm?Id=483...