Hey stonemanty, you need two, 3 contact 3.5mm jacks (t,r,s). Tip is positive, ring is neg, sleeve contact is not used. Same on left or right. Pretty easy. Left channel plugs into the pono headphone jack, right into the line out jack. When both connected, you can choose "balanced" out from the...

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I've had my Neil Young signature series Pono for a few weeks now, time to share some thoughts about it. I have only used it in single end mode, not balanced yet.    First, the sound quality is really very good. The presentation tilts just a bit to the lean side, with a nice air to the treble...

I'm wondering....on July 23, an invitation was sent out to kickstarter backers to attend a Pono listening party in San Francisco on Friday August 1st. The invitation was limited to the first 50 backers to RSVP. Were any of our Head Fi brotherhood lucky enough to get in on that? If so, I would...

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Ugh, that case looks awful. At first glance it appears to be scraps of duct tape wrapping the player.

Most likely powered speakers, driven from the DX90 line out. I doubt you'd get any kind of satisfactory result driving passive speakers from the DX

Beautiful looking tubes! How does it sound? :)

I wish Centrance would share a little more info about the Mini M8. A couple blog updates maybe? Pop in on the thread and fill us in? Pretty please?

New design looks fantastic. I really like it more than the first.

I've received the X5 tour unit today, safe and sound! Now to spend some time getting to know it. Thanks again Joe.

You shouldn't tell jokes about cows. No one likes a cattle-tale.

We need more cowbell

I, for one, would greatly appreciate if you were to elaborate... Later. At your convenience of course!

      Jeff, it might be the cable you are using between CCK and the CLAS-db. The CLAS-db (and Theorem 720) are dual-use on the mini USB input. Computer or i-device. It "auto senses" which device is connected by the way the mini USB cable end is configured. Regular USB, "computer" uses pins...

I'm waiting as well since December. I contacted Stacie yesterday about an update. She said the units are arriving next week, then after a thorough QA check they will begin shipping. Shipments will go out in this order, according to output configuration: XL4, CMB, then RSA. I'm at the bottom of...

Actually, for #1...if they are powered speakers, they need a line level input. The M8 is perfectly capable of providing that from the 1/8 jack. I believe mid gain, and volume maxed (or near max?) on the M8 gives you that level.

  Well, *blush* I don't know about TWO "great"s. One singular great is using the term loosely, bordering on exaggeration. LOL.    Anyways, making a custom CCK> B cable should be pretty straightforward. It would involve harvesting the "secret sauce" components from the CCK cable, and then...

Do you happen to know if the cable is 4 conductors, all the way to the plug? So it can be easily reterminated with an XLR?

Wow, these seem to be pretty drastic changes, the impedance, efficiency, and excursion all considered. I'm also curious as to how this affects the sound

The mod should only affect the line out. So if you've got no sound from the line out, something related to the modification is messed up. The sound from the headphone jack is not changed.

+1 ^ For the HD800, at least, both amps are great. I personally never cared too much for the LCD's on the CSP3 however. Not with the option of the mk3 sitting there! Running the pair together is very nice as well, for either HD800 or LCD. For HD800, the CSP3 alone, mk3 alone, or both paired...

I couldn't quite make it through all the garbled translation, but I tried. I was most amused by all the photos, showing the headphones plugged into the coax port. ?? :)

Those are very nice! Wow!

  I did something similar, but with an extra protector I had from my cell phone, "Invisible Defender". Didn't bother at all with the iBasso screen covers. I used a rotary strip cutter like you may find in a craft store for cutting photos etc. to get straight edges. It came out really good just...