Another vote for dbpoweramp. Ripped all my CDs with it. So much more convenient on a MyBookLive than jockeying disks.

I get 24/96 files from HDTracks. You should also check the artist's own website. I paid too much for McCartney through HDTracks. Should have gotten it from his own site. Again, the resolution itself is not the improvement you're hearing, it is the audiophile remastering, and mostly, that's...

Yes, you don't have to like it but sound engineers have to make pop music sound good on the average system. Back in the old days, they'd have an AM radio on the sound studio bench so they would know how it would sound on a $10 3" paper cone full range. Now I bet the standards are the hated...

I have heard the difference between 128kbps and 256kbps. Above that, I'm not convinced. I think it has to be complex acoustic music like  acoustic Jazz, Bluegrass, or Classical music with a lot of stuff going on, like Beethoven's 9th: Ode to Joy. I've heard live with no sound system at all so I...

I use mostly FLACs from CDs. To go down from 1440kbps to 320kbps would lose information. And, I have a half-dozen 24/96 albums. I've seen a lot of debate about when data compression is audible. I don't think 320kbps loses much if anything. I'm just not willing to take the chance.

I have a 64gb class 10 full of pop songs and it takes about a minute to update almost 3000 songs, between the base memory and card. Since you can get 64gb cards for $25  (sandisk from Amazon) and 128gb for $100, the choice seems clear to me. 64GB is the lowest cost per GB.

Maybe not all phones are affected, since I got it used and it was already set to low gain. Then of course, the seller could have had tin ears.

I assume that any 64GB SDXC, HC has sufficient data transfer for the highest res. music, so other than reliability, go for price. I have 3.2 firmware and I started using it with that rev so I don't know about earlier, but I can and did format the card in the Fiio, just to be sure it would work...

My wife insisted on an iPod two Christmases ago. I went to the store. They had listening posts set up with decent sennheisers, not ear buds. As soon as the classical piece they had for demo added the fifth instrument it all turned to mush. You couldn't distinguish the individual instruments. I...

  I've just had the X3 for a few days, but I noticed a big improvement going to high gain vs low gain. Low gain had more compressed dynamics, more grain in the treble. For example, Art Gafunkel's voice with low gain sounded like rayon, high gain sounded like silk on a 16/44 flac of What a...

I've had an x3 for just a few days. Had it format a samsung 64gb micro sd. No problem. Updated to 3.2 no problem. My files are all FLACs mostly ripped from CD by dbPowerAmp, some from HDTRACKS, and a Beatles USB, all art, tags, intact. Would like playlists though. Still learning. This is to be a...

The only CDs I've had a problem with were ones that I let get too scratched up. Then, with a lot of polish and trying different drives could get them to work well enough for ripping. I also had a CD-R that went, delaminated but don't know the brand. A gift.   Be careful about RAIDs. They are...

I'm new at this. I have been getting my CDs onto a hard drive. I'm not disposing of the CDs. I continue to buy them. In fact, I'm probably going to buy more now that the format seems to be sunsetting. Some of my reasons: 1. CDs don't get accidentally erased, harbor viruses, get hijacked like...

I got the PK2s a year and a half ago through ebay for $55 new shipped from China. Small seller, box had postage stamps afixed by hand. They came in this nicely made, cute, strange gray wooden box. The had a gold large adapter. I wouldn't think that a counterfeiter would go through that amount of...