I watch a lot of live performances in the form of DVDs, as usually the case(for me at least), live performance offers something better in comparison to studio records, hard to explain the different feel but it comes down to mainly vocal presence, but nowadays when using foobar+WASAPI, I find the...

So I pretty much understand how headphone/speaker frequency response graphs should look like for a neutral sound, so what would be the ideal frequency response graph for IEM? They are stuck inside the ear so they must have a different response graph right?   let's say we use tyll's graphs...

Is this normal:   after purchasing $600 headphones from moonaudio which included shipping and handling, I get another $50+ COD by UPS   I am asking cuz I get things shipped to me from Japan and China and never get extra delivery charges no matter how big the item   I am from Canada btw

I have been reading a bit about the arcam rPAC and some other dacs and it seems they are also labeled as an amp as well as a DAC. My question is how much amplifying do I get from these kinds dacs or how much amplification will it affect my headphones to the point that it changes the overall...

I got an album ripped for 320 kbps and sounds fine like many of my rips. But I have on album that was ripped with only 276 kbps and this one has a noticeable volume drop maybe 40-50%. This only occurs with this album because all of my other rips with lower (e.g. 192 kbps) bit rate has the same...