My second and consecutive visit to the National Audio Show 2014. This year the headphone section was given much bigger floor space and was super popular. Recognised a few Head-Fi members from the previous London meet. No buying by me, although there were show discounts to be had. Have entered...

http://www.aloaudio.com/amplifiers/the-island   Been stalking the Alo website as I really want to test out the balanced ouput stage on my Clas -dB and then I distracted by the Pan Am. And then woah a big bright colour banner, new product announcement!

Bad News: After 6 years and a few months of faithful devoted service, the left earpiece on my Westone UM2 is starting to go. Or rather the cable is. Can get it to work if I move my head in a certain direction or have the wire "floating" out rather than routed behind the ear as intended, but it...

Listening to Back To Black on Spotify both through Cambridge Audio S30 speakers and Sennheiser HD600 headphones. It seems to me there is quite a bit of bass distortion and clipping as a result   Without the CD at hand, any owners able to confirm this suspicion? Somewhat distracting. Who...

I have some long haul flights in a few weeks with stopovers in the middle, as if the flights are not long enough in the first place... Done a search but think it will be useful to collate specific opinions   Two main criteria: (1) Small size (2) Battery life of 24 hours +    ...

... Well my youngest brother will turn 14 at the turn of the month I hooked him up with my ESW9s and he won't take them off... Anyway I know there are many, many threads on budget IEMs but one point here... The IEMs will spend 90% of its life hanging off the collar of a shirt. So they...

I am currently using a HP notebook with a usb Eidrol UA-25 sound card. Then RCA out to portable Ray Audio Samuel Tomahawk headphone amp or RCA out to Creative Gigawork T20 speakers Obviously time for an upgrade across the board I am happy to play the slow patient game and want to spec out...

Hola 1x iPod Nano 4th Gen 1x iPod Shuffle 2nd Gen 1x HP notebook XP SP3 (latest official last.fm client) 1x Macbook OSX (latest official last.fm client) The Nano scrobbles fine on both machines But the Shuffle does not. For some reason it only scrobbles tracks that have not been...

Sennheiser UK - PMX 80 Sport II (US site is the same, huh!) iPod 2G Shuffle 1GB Green - a set on Flickr Sennheiser PMX 80 Sport II - a set on Flickr I shalln't be linking to every photo so please see the Flickr sets Rationale and check-list for buying Buying headphones for sport...

If you are reading this and a seasoned head-fier you are probably wondering what I am smoking because you are saying its unfair to expect a DAP alone to beat LOD to an expensive-ish amp, so let me explain... skip to the bottom if you are impatient I recently purchased a LOD and listened to my...

I am currently running a 15.4" HP business laptop - 1.66ghz core duo, 2GB ram Obviously that and needing a smaller screen size for final year uni leads to, nay - necessitates an upgrade Those new macbooks. Cannot stop looking enviously at them. Anyway,... EAC Lame Foobar My golden...

Recently bought Audio Technica ESW9's. I feel they are only a taster of full sized cans. Want something primarily for home use and that I will not need to upgrade for a good while for when I get a real job Music: Everything except country So in order of listening time, designating equal...

I currently run audio from my HP nc8430 laptop. Due to the noisy and hissy built-in audio making IEM use unbearable, in a moment of spendicitis I purchased the Edirol UA-25 external usb sound card and the RSA Tomahawk. I have run this setup for roughly a year now. The sound card doubles up as...

http://today.reuters.com/news/articl...IC.xml&src=rss What? Micro$oft business dealings According to Universal then, they should get a royalty from every music playing device sold, even if it will never play Universal owned msuic? I know Micro$oft are *desperate* to knock Apple down...

http://www.mobilewhack.com/reviews/j...headphone.html http://www.jvc-victor.co.jp/press/2006/hp-fx77.html Ear-piece diameter : 8.5mm Playback frequency zone : 5hz - 25,000Hz Output : 95dB/1mW Maximum permissible input : 200mW (IEC standard) Extension cord : 3.5mm gold plated, 70cm...

http://www.dapreview.net/comment.php?comment.news.2792 http://www.shure.com/news/pressrelea...006_01_05.html

Sony to release new PVPs?

I finally relented and decided to give in to EAC + Lame but..... All my CDs with xtra content don't work with EAC e.g Linkin Park; Reanimation and Meteora and a couple of other Rap albums with videos etc so any ideas?

Thanks to engadget: http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000503052490/ The price of £219 will undoubtedbly be cheaper once e-retailers get it. In case people from US don't know, Argos are a catalogue business who also sell online. Oh, the exchange rate makes it $385 USD. Don't panick. Thats just...

via dapreview.net http://reviews.cnet.com/Cowon_iAudio...2.html?tag=tab 7.3/10 This is what dapreview made of it: Verdict: 7.3 out of 10... just average. And yet they gave Sony's NW-HD5 a full 8 out of 10. Confusing, to say the least. They raise a number of concerns about the X5...

So it is real......it wasn't just an early X5:http://portableaudio.engadget.com/en...4000353050286/ Seems to be nothing more than a budget X5 though; no colour screen and grey/silver casing instead of black courtesy of www.dapreview.net and www.engadget.com

courtesy of www.dapreview.net: http://reviews.designtechnica.com/re...ntro14092.html basically 6/10, I'll cut to the chase, here's their summing up: Pros: - Largest display in its class - Attractive looks - Plenty of storage sizes and colors to choose from Cons: - Poor...

check this article:http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1830689,00.asp

register on this site:http://www.junto.co.uk/Consumer/Sony_NW_HD5.aspx which I got via avforums.co.uk

Best mic for Hi-MD portables. Just for lectures. Available in UK please or on e-bay