Thanks for the reply.  Your opinion on how the OP3 sounds is pretty much consistent from the reviews and others out there.  Do you have any suggestions on a good dynamic driver IEM that has android capability?  The only one that comes to mind is the Shure SE215?  Do you also have any insight...

Just got the new oneplus 3 and I was hoping to get a nice iem with an in line mic. Hoping to stay under 200. I was looking at the shure westone and ety . Could someone also educate me on the difference between iPhone and Android headsets and what can be controlled why the buttons? I've owned a...

Very tempting... 

I believe you are thinking the opposite.  The line out on a headphone output has a much lower voltage than a typical preamp line out voltage.  You need less voltage to drive headphones than a typical line out voltage of lets say a cd player.  But that shouldn't pose a problem for most amplifiers...

That's correct.  What would the disadvantage of using the headphone output to drive the line outs if Oppo had decided to jump the headphone output to RCA's for example?  The headphone output would suffer from a poorer SNR but it should be negligible seeing that they are >100db.  Also, the...

Sorry my brain was thinking hifi tube preamps, while the preamp needs to be muted while the relays are switching.  A mute circuit: http://www.transcendentsound.com/Transcendent/Mute_Circuit.html.  They are pretty darn common.   If you were to jump the line outs from the headphone output, both...

Well I'm not intimately familiar with the HA-1's circuitry so I can't give you definitive answers.  But if you were to have the HA-1 have the ability to switch between the line out and headphone amp, you'd have to implement another circuit.  Then to have a mute function, you would have to...

Mhhmm.  So the question is:  can you hear the difference between the two?

Actually I have not.  My main system is fully balanced and I use balanced interconnects whenever possible.  Usually when you hear 6.35mm or 3.5mm to RCA it's antithetical to "audiophile." However, I think you may have a good point since the headphone output is discrete when compared to the...

I've had experience with the Burson Conductor SL and the HA-1 but never with the top of the line Conductor.  It's tough to compare because I used them as headphone amps and also preamps, never through the DAC alone.  But to the point, I just liked the Conductor better.  I had never been a fan of...

Headphones with 5 cups? No.  But there have been attempts to emulate the sound of speakers in rooms even surround sound: http://www.smyth-research.com/   High definition digital audio has been around for decades as CD's.  Everyone wants convenience more and thus the MP3 found its place as a...

Why not just get both :P? But yes, the HA-1 and BDP-105 have different priorities.  I happen to own both and I use my 105 for my HT as a preamp, the HA-1 for a pair of passive speaker and headphone setup.  I've tried the headphone output on the 105 and it's not anywhere near the same quality...

Thanks for all the tips. I currently run on Windows 8.1.  I tried jiitteebee's suggestion and both windows audio services are working.  I also attempted to restart the service manually to see if that would fix the problem.  It did not.   Power management seems to be fine as with my...

Whenever I put the computer to sleep and wake it up there is no sound through my USB device.   For background, I purchased a Burson Conductor SL which uses a different driver, C Media USB 2.0 High Speed True HD audio driver than my previous device a Topping TP30.  All drivers are up to date.  ...

Hmm... The momentum's do have deeper cups but they still bother me after an hour or so.  The NAD's bother me much quicker with their shallower ear cups.  I checked out the thread, and my ears fit into the ear cup but in terms of depth, that's the problem.  It seems that the momentums are 20mm...

I was thinking the same thing.  Try it before I return it, but I had thought with over the ear headphones, the pads should be big enough not to touch my earlobes.  

I've been trying to get into headphone listening latley and purchased two headphones to try out: the Sennheiser Momentum and NAD HP50.  They both sound great but after half hour to an hour, my earlobes start feeling some discomfort.  Given, I haven't listened to headphones for extended periods...

Thanks for the tip.

Hello, I've been a long time audio enthusiast in both HT and 2 ch. Just to preface my current stereo setup to give you an idea of what I'm running to help make me a recommendation. I'm currently running a pair of Revel Gem's using a tube preamp. Measured response is pretty darn flat in room with...

Hello, I've been a long time audio enthusiast in both HT and 2 ch.  Just to preface my current stereo setup to give you an idea of what I'm running to help make me a recommendation.  I'm currently running a pair of Revel Gem's using a tube preamp.  Measured response is pretty darn flat in...

Hey all, Long time onlooker here.  I guess when you need DAC help for a computer, you come to the people who know the most.  My current goal for my setup is to link my computer to my system, about ~15ft away.  My system composes of Revel M22, Rotel RX-1050, and a CD player.  I want the system...