The Art of Electronics was a the standard text when I was an electronics student many, many years ago. Excellent book.

I forgot to mention that if you're ever looking for somebody to take part in long term listening trials with some of your higher end models that I'll make the necessary sacrifices and volunteer my services 😆 I'll be there in 20 minutes...

This is great news. I live just down the road from you, but didn't realise the importance of the Tullamore site to your global strategy. Good luck and I wish you every success.

Hope you don't mind me sharing this. My one-off handmade bass made by Karl Hoyt.

Some great looking pens on this thread. I have a small collection of pens, the oldest is a mid 1930's Parker vacumatic that I had rebuilt and serviced last year. It cost a fortune to get it working again, but it used to be my grandma's pen so felt I had to do it. I also have a few other...

Anybody use this to stream digital to a DAC ? Is there anything you need to set up in the configurations or is it just as simple as plugging in a suitable cable ?

Hi, Does anybody have any recommendations for a good, inexpensive pair of noise reducing earphones that are 'sports safe' (sweatproof) ? I'm looking for something to filter out the deafening dance music in my local gym. The sound quality is probably secondary to the noise isolation, after all...

  Thanks, I think that something like this is the way to go as it's fairly discrete but gives full control. I could run it minimized on a second screen.   I'm thinking of connecting my Schiit Modi to my docking station and then feeding it under my desk with an appropriate headphone amp hidden...

  Thanks, I'd be interested but I don't think that keyboard would pass the 'discrete' test :-).

Thanks everyone.

How does everybody control whatever s/w you use ? I have both FooBar2000 and MusicBee on my work system, but as my work keyboard is a basic one with no media keys it's always a bit of a pain when somebody walks into my office and I have to maximise the app and then fiddle around with my mouse...

Mine arrived today. I ordered them from Amazon Germany at lunchtime on Saturday. They were delivered to a courier company in the UK yesterday evening and I had them in my hand (in Ireland) at 8am this morning. Unbelievable.   As for the headphones themselves. I'm absolutely staggered by them...

I've just pulled the trigger and bought a pair. I've been procrastinating about it all week until I discovered they were €20 cheaper on Amazon. Germany compared to Amazon. co.uk. Looking forward to using them with my Xduoo X3 at work.

Sounds perfect. I want something that'll drown out the background conversations but allow me to hear the phone or fire alarm etc. Thanks for the comparison with the Senn HD650. That gives me a good baseline. They really sound superb value. Thanks everyone.

What is the isolation like on the triple driver ? I'm looking for some headphones to wear to work, and some isolation would be good, but I don't want too much that I can't hear what's going on around me. I work in a busy engineering/ production office, that's never too noisy, but is never ever...

  I've just done what I should have done before posting my question and read the first post in the thread. I now realise that it's not for the 19J6's.   Never mind.

Hi Fred, is the board for the original Pete Millett 19J6 version or the later one ? I have one I built up a couple of years ago with 19J6s, on perfboard, but I'm thinking of rebuilding it onto a PCB. I've probably even got enough parts left over to build another one as well :-).

Thanks Killcomic. In fairness they do sound like deal breakers to me. The clicking and file browsing would drive me mental. I reckon I'd better sit and wait or else buy the original X1 or maybe even the Xduoo.   The only thing that puts me of the Xduoo is that it looks like it was designed by...

I'm interested in getting one of these for myself for Christmas, but am a bit concerned over some of the negative comments such as the poor bluetooth and freezing.   What's the current feeling forumites ? Buy now and expect/ hope they get it fixed or stick with proven technology and get the...

I agree. I think it sounds a pretty good option. I'm going to order one tonight and see if I can get it to work. I guess the simple option would be just  to use the headphone socket on the tv rather than the DAC/ amp route (but where's the fun in that ? ? ? ).   Thanks for your help.

  I have a spare tv that could do it. I could even feed the optical digital audio out into another dac and then into the Starving Student if I wanted to get really nerdy. Only thing is it's getting a bit more complex than I wanted. I quite liked a simple one box solution.   What I think I'll...

  Yes, I was looking at something like that as well, but have never used one and wasn't sure of the functionality. I guess it'd mean that I need to plug it into a tv to control it and then take the digital signal and convert it. The price seems attractive in comparison to all the media...

Thanks again.   I'll keep looking around, I may even have an old games console lying around that my sons aren't using that I could use. Failing that something like what you've mentioned or the Roberts Radio Stream 93i seem to fit the bill as they're controllable from my tablet or phone.  ...

Thanks obobskivich.   The requirement for FLAC isn't too rigid, I just have music on a hard drive stored in both formats. I was thinking of maybe a streaming device or digital media player but have never really looked into them before and don't know what they can do. I actually built a music...

Hi,   Sorry if this is a dumb question, although I'm pretty much a lifetime hifi nerd, I've responded well to my addiction treatment in recent years and have stepped back a little so don't really know what's available any more.   I'm looking for a source component that will allow me to play...