Hi Tyll, I've been following HeadRoom's development of power amps with some interest. Did you guys compare the UcD against the ICEpower amp modules (or any other amp modules) when designing your amps? If so, why did you pick the ICEpower? Thanks. --Andre

Did anyone catch Keeping Score last night on PBS? Michael Tilson Thomas walks us through the Tchaikovsky 4th symphony, with especially interesting insight (for classical beginners as well as the crusty veterans). From the excerpts I heard, it sounded like a fantastic, incandescent performance of...

I need suggestions for an inexpensive (under or around $300) DAC that can accept 24/96 digital inputs that's also readily available in the UK. A UK friend is looking for one, and the Art DI/O is apparently difficult to get there. --Andre

No real information yet, but Siegfried Linkwitz on his website has a tantalizing "Reference earphones - Equalization of ER-4S - Under construction" statement: http://www.linkwitzlab.com (look near bottom at "Latest updates") --Andre

The new San Francisco Symphony hybrid SACD recording of Mahler's 1st symphony conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas comes with a bonus making-of DVD if you preordered directly from the Symphony shop, and there are several shots of Sennheiser HD-580s being used for monitoring. I think there was a...

Out of respect for requests that technical discussion be left out of the other upsampling threads: Upsampling DACs v2 Upsampling DACs I've created this thread where technical discussion is allowed. Subjective opinions are welcome as well. And technical discussions correlating to...

Hi guys, I just started playing with MP3-encoding this weekend in an effort to be able to carry around a large amount of music without carrying lots of CDs around. I'm using AudioGrabber with the LAME 3.88 encoder, with playback on WinAmp, and I listen to mainly classical music. I'm thinking...