I've had this conundrum in my mind for a long time. It's kind of the problem of "What was first, the egg or the chicken" (In that case the egg was first since that egg was given birth by a close relative of chickens at some point). We all know microphones don't read frequencies in a flat...

Hi headfiers I recently started wondering, why do people use measures related to electrical wires (cross section) as a measure for their audio cables ? AWG and metric wire gauges are old standards used for electrical applications that audio equipment probably inherited since we use...

Hi headfiers I recently stated to get a little worried because specs on some headphones not always put rated power and even less frequently put max power or handling power. Even when they do this specs sometimes do not seem to make sense. a 102 dB/mW with 2000 mW of handling power is not...

Hi Headfiers: Lately I've been searching for a wireless audio setup. AFAIK there's 3 technologies, Bluetooth, Wifi (UPNP, DLNA) and 2.4 Ghz wireless. Bluetooth is lossy so it's worthless for me. Wifi looks OK, just a little bit cumbersome (ideally requires an android phone to control)...

Hi headfiers, I have a couple of questions: I have been reading about amps and stuff and came to the concept of clipping but there's still some stuff I can't understand. The theory says: Clipping happens when the amplifier can't intensify the signal enough, so the peaks of the soundwaves...

Hi headfiers: I consider myself a flat response headphone enthusiast, I prefer them as flat as possible (unlike females). I just prefer my audio to go as untouched as possible from binary to soundwave in the most accurate way possible (I don't own analogue sources).   Now I've tried a...

Hello I recently discovered that WASAPI supposedly can playback bitperfect streams of PCM and DSD. I preferred to stick to ASIO but it's buggy on every DAC/Soundcard I've ever tried, producing noise when putting load on the CPU and having problems at certain sampling rates so I decided to use...

Hi A while ago I discovered the 192/24 formats, downloaded some, read some stuff. According to the nyquist theorem there should be no audible difference between the 48/24 and 192/24 so I decided to downsample the ultra-big files I had (since I'm running low on storage). Even though I know...

Hi, I'm looking for a low-budget (~60 US$) Balanced Armature IEM. There are few to choices arround here and I don't want to import from elsewhere. I've tried the SoundMagic PL-30 and a bunch of other cheap driver-based IEM and I want to upgrade to balanced armature.   Between the...