I'll be heading up to college in a few weeks, and I've been thinking that I finally need to get some closed headphones for listening in my dorm. the source is going to be either my macbook pro or my ipod nano 2g (usually the mbp). for now at least, I won't be using an amp. I listen mainly to...

as the title indicates, I'm looking for some closed cans for around $100. for now I won't be using an amp, the output will be straight out of my laptop (compal hel80). I listen to a lot of rock and power/prog metal. I'd love to get something that sounds like grados as I listened to some sr60's...

I'm looking for the best open headphone for under $150... I mainly listen to metal and rock, and some classical guitar and jazz sometimes. they'll be used with my computer 99% of the time. probably no amp yet, I just want something that sounds good and doesn't annoy people around me. I was...

wasn't everybody talking about how on April 1st Apple was going to introduce some new iPods? well, it's now April 2nd, and nothing new. what's up Apple?

it's still in the beta stages, but if it's as good as it promises when it comes out I imagine it'll be a hit... PLUS it's open-source and runs in linux (though not available to download yet, it's only a exe thus far). so far it seems to work well, just slightly buggy, though that's to be...

i broke my sharp md33's about a week ago (long story, but they were ran over by a car ), so now, i need new ones. i was thinking about just getting another pair of them since i really liked them, but i want a change. what are some other good sound-isolating earbuds in about the same price range...

hey guys, i'm currently debating between the 30gb X5L or the 30gb creative Vision:M. the thing keeping me from deciding on the creative (better video playback, really good sq from what i've heard) is the software. i have a zen micro (died a few weeks ago completely randomely) and its software is...

i'm having a problem here... i was 95% set on getting the 60gb x5, and then i find out about its 9999 file limit, which just plain SUCKS. i'm not sure yet if it's only for music, or if data is part of that, either way it sucks, a huge negative to the x5. the 60gb ipod is also a possibility now...

i know this isn't technically the correct forum, but i couldn't find any other forum on headfi for software. i need to know what's a *good* program to rip and encode cd's at the same time. eac/lame takes too long, and eac rarely recognizes the cd's, which means i have to manually enter the...

i'm out of space with my 5gb zen micro, so i'm in need of a new dap. right now i encode most of my music (~10gb at the moment, though growing fast) in mp3 so as to play it on my micro, but i want to reencode all of it to ogg and flac, so i need it to be able to play those 2 formats. i'd like...

whats the difference between the iaudio x5 and x5l? i've noticed the x5l model to be as expensive as the x5 model with a bigger hd (as in a 20gb x5l the same price as 30gb x5, and so forth). i may be looking into getting one since i'm running low on hd space with my micro and the h320 is getting...

does anybody else here use a pda as a source instead of a dedicated mp3 player? right now i have both a zen micro and dell axim x50v with 1gb sd card. as much as i hate to say it, i almost never use my micro now. my pda sounds better, and can do a ton of things other than play music (not gonna...

my zm has been randomly shutting down occasionally as i'm listening to music. the battery isn't low, and i can't think of anything that would cause it to shut down on its own. when i turn it back on it continues playing where it left off. this happens when i'm listening in my car (fm...

has anyone tried mounting the zen micro in linux? which firmware did you use. i use linux almost exclusively now so it'd be really nice if i could transfer all my music to my linux partition instead of having to keeps copies of it in both windows and linux so that i could sync my micro. the...

does anyone know if the new 1.02.05 firmware on creative's site still supports mediasource? there other 2.xx firmwares made me use wmp, which i hate thanks

my zen micro needs a companion. which would be the best choice? i was isolation, good sq, comfort, and ease of use. which of these would you pick? alos, is there any place other than audiocubes where i can order these? thanks

i know i said i was going to get the karma... but i couldn't resist the micro. i got it in black, just like my old player. i just found out that the fm radio can come in handy while at the gym (didn't know before that the tv's were transmitting to fm), so that also helped sway my desicion. also...

my zen micro was stolen from me a few days ago (the thread is still on this page), and chances of me getting it back are looking bleak. therefore, i need a new player. when i got my micro, i thought that i'd like something really small, but turns out i don't really need it. as long as it...

i'm in shock right now... i left it in my locker at school, come back a few hours later to find that it's gone, with another $20 in my wallet. i reported it missing to the school police officer and he told me that i was probably the 30th person he'd talked to that day. i'm so depressed right now.

i'm looking for some good-sounding overear cans for under $150. i don't have an amp, so they need to sound nice without it. i want them to be sound-isolating, but without a remote like the pxc250's have. i was thinking sennheiser, but they have so many models that i thought i'd let you guys...

i recently got a cd that had songs from different albums on it (it's all legal, don't worry), the problem is, that none of my software recognizes the id3 tags on the songs, and i don't know the names of each song. is there any quality piece of software that can do this for me if wmp or creative...

hey everyone, i'm new here so be easy on me lol anyways, i recently bought a zen micro, and while so far i love it, i want to extend the love even further now, i'm a n00b at this stuff, so i'd like to get some new headphones and a portable amp (do i even need one??). the headphones i want...