I haven't been around here for a while, but I felt I had to return to make this post in the service of the public good. Ladies and gentlemen, I have discovered the purpose of Grados, and that purpose is named Dinosaur Jr. Message ends.

Okay, first of all, adjust your expectations, I'm talking *really* cheap here. Anyone to whom cheap means "under $1,000", stop reading now. =) But I've had a t-amp lying in my closet for a couple of years now (got it with the Paradigm Titans I use for rears on my living room setup, bought...

We have a thread with a quick guide to using the AV710's analog output under Linux, but not its digital output. I aim to fill that gap! The AV710 is a good choice for a digital output as well as analog, since it's cheap and has a non-resampling optical output. Under Linux, here's how to use it...

So, inspired by the thread about whether there'll be a new HF-1, I thought it'd be interesting to take a 'census' of the HF-1s out there. If you bought a pair, where are they now? Still in regular use? In storage? Been sold / traded? My pair is still in daily use, of course. edit: thanks...

Apologies if this has been spotted before, but I did a search and couldn't find any mention. Anyways, I was just reading a thread which mentioned a price Todd had on something, so I thought I'd go there and check it out. My fingers were being lazy, though, and they typed www.ttvj.com instead of...

I thought there might be some interest in this. The Neuros open source page, http://open.neurosaudio.com/ , carries Joe Born's blog, and he's announced that the developer board for the next generation of Neuros players (the new 442 and the Neuros III) is going into early production...

A happy story today! I've not been terribly happy with my ER4s out of my PSP since I got 'em last week - sure, everyone says they're cold, thin and lack bass, but they seemed to be displaying these properties to such absurd extremes I didn't see why anyone, anywhere could ever love them. I got...

So I was feeling like spending a large chunk of money today and figured I'd buy the new Talking Heads box set, but was thwarted due to apparently no retailer in Vancouver having it in stock (or in fact having heard of it at all). So I settled for spending a small chunk of money and bought The...

I've liked Ted Leo since I saw a reference to him in a newspaper I found lying round a restaurant last year, and picked up Shake the Sheets. But for whatever reason - coincidence, I dunno - I almost always listen to his stuff on my portable setup. Well, I finally put Shake the Sheets in my home...

I'm considering getting the Headroom micro stack (amp and DAC) as an upgrade for my current source chain (AV710 in high quality mode to Twinstarr Black amp, which is basically a maxed Cmoy). The price for the stack is $600. My question is whether there's a DAC / amp combination that might be...

So, I have nice headphones. This pleases me. My HTPC, where we spend quite a lot of time watching TV and such, and which I use to listen to music while doing stuff around the house, has a fairly terrible speaker set up, though. This displeases me. Right now I'm running off NForce 2 onboard sound...

Is it just me or are the IRS R.E.M. albums (everything before Green) really rewarding for good equipment? I used to hate 'em when I just had MX400s. Couldn't hear the vocals, everything sounded mushy and far away. Now I have much better stuff, they sound fantastic; I guess because they don't...

Well, now I have my HF-1s that cost rather a lot more than my sound card and amp put together, I feel a little upgraditis coming on, and am thinking about getting the Headroom micro stack (in a couple of months, when I'm rich...) as a neat, simple wham-bam-done solution (especially since I run...

The existing AV710 setup threads have Linux information, but it's slightly out of date, now. I thought I'd post an update. The Linux support for the AV710's high-resolution output (i.e. using the Wolfson DAC from the rear surround channel to drive the main stereo channel instead, and plugging...

So my lovely shiny new Eggo D77s arrived in the mail today. They're used, so no need for burn-in, and I sat right down to compare them to my D66s. Preliminary stuff: equipment - Chaintech AV710 (regular DAC, due to Linux driver issues) -> Twinstarr Black amp -> headphones. Source: CD playing...

So I've been researching lately and it seems the RME 96/8 PAD is up there in the very small list of contenders for 'e-mu class audio in Linux'. It's also generally much more expensive than e-mu cards, from what I can gather. However! There's currently eight available for $199 buy-it-now from jd...

Quick question, hopefully a quick answer. Is the normal line/spk-out on the m-audio 5.1 as good as the high quality output on the av710 (or very close)? I got an AV710 for my new Linux rig but, long story short, the high-quality output basically doesn't work any more on the av710 in Linux thanks...

So, purely cos I'm bored and I don't remember seeing anyone else mention him here since I joined... Leonard Cohen is fantastic. Discuss.

so the head-fi wallet warnings are definitely coming true for me...two pairs of cans since I joined and now I bought an amp, sigh. I'm making myself a new desktop PC (I currently have a monitor sitting on top of my HTPC and use it as a desktop while sitting on my bed staring down at the monitor...

So as my .sig's been saying for a while, I ordered my SR80s a few weeks back...of course I immediately saw a few things I maybe should've bought instead (MS-1s, egg0s, maybe even HD280s), and since I've been waiting three weeks now I also started getting worried about whether they'd arrive. So...

Well, just had this idea for a thread...which are your favourite b-side bands? There's some bands who don't put much effort into b-sides or who, even more annoyingly, fill them up with third-rate remixes by Fatboy Slim. And then there's bands who release fantastic songs that could easily be on...