Fellow stubborn, stuck on TF10s in 2021, my second pair the left iem has cracked. Of course I will just glue it back. What I want to know if it’s worth reshelling my final pair and if so where to do it? I‘m in the US, NYC area.

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I purchased a Samsung 128GB Evo+ microsd. I noticed the database takes some time to build on powerup. Also adding soon s to a playlist takes some time. Would there be an advantage to buying a higher performing card, sandisk pro extreme, delkin, lexar...which have read speeds that are twice as...

I've been using a Sony NWZ-X1000 since it came out in 2009! Bought a used replacement after the first ones screen stopped working. The second NWZ-X1000 is still working. Ive been looking for a compact mp3 player with a touchscreen interface with good sound quality for some time. Just took the...

I've had that EMU 0404 for 10 years as well:) I'm looking into the LSR305 some more, seem pretty good. but once they were described as being brash, I'd prefer the music to be more in the middle ground rather than the background or foreground in terms of listening experience.   Thanks for the...

Ah, I see. The Swans have a single amp rated at 15Wx2 RMS (5 ohms, 1Khz, THD85dB). I'm reading up on the ribbon tweeter in the AirMotiv. The JBL LSR305 is liked but some say it is more bright than warm.   I have an EMU USB 0404 external USB sound device I use as a DAC.

Thank you for the suggestion, I'm going to read up on the Emotiva monitors. I wonder how much of an upgrade they might be from the Swans M200.   I'm hoping for the most musical speakers I can get but without a sub, just a 2.0 pair. I know bass will be sacrificed to a certain a degree.

Hi all, I've owned the original Swans M200 desktop speakers for almost 10 years. They, along with my JBL L112's have served as my main music listening speakers. They still work fine but I was wondering what would be an actual upgrade to the Swans.   Active speakers that I would use for music...

Has the song dropout/cutout bug been fixed? I personally am bewildered that anyone would put up with that. It's nice that clinically the sound quality is great, but the point being the music and the overall listening experience.   My understanding is that once you fill up a storage card a good...

Couple of questions for owners.   What's your experience been in regards to how long it takes to scan a 64GB/128GB card after you've filled 50-75% of the card and then add new music/albums? If you use dual cards, will it have to scan both even though you've only added to one card?   Seeking...

Thanks cyberspyder, those look like good budget Neutriks.   Specs say it takes cable with O.D.≤ 7 mm which is wide enough for the Mogami and Canare (6mm) I mentioned. I'm deciding between those and the amphenol connectors (can't pin down the cable diameter for these though) which seem to be...

I decided to try and make my own interconnects and after I got the cable down (Canare L-4E6S and Mogami W2534) I started looking at RCA connectors and I found myself all over the place.   Maybe this thread can help other people that are looking for budget plugs/connectors. Please feel free...

Quote: Thanks, I think I can do without the  NF2CB/2 as nice as they are. I don't plan to plug and unplug much if it all.

I'm going to make my own RCA interconnect for my Squeezebox Touch which will connect to a vintage Yamaha integrated amp which is connected to some vintage JBL L112 speakers.   I've seen these Neutrik NF2CB/2 connectors which are on the expensive side. The big deal being:   Makes ground...

Ah, so 24 bit may have its place when it comes to capturing the analog out. After capturing and any click/pop removal, then converting to 16 bits would mean no audible difference between 24 bits at that point I take it. Meaning there really is no audible advantage for 24 bit playback.

Meant to post in this thread. So folks who rip their old/new vinyl records and then "resample and dither to 24/96" are mostly just wasting space? Meaning they could have ripped to redbook 16bit/44.1kHz and it would pretty much sound the same?

So folks who rip their old/new vinyl records and then "resample and dither to 24/96" are mostly just wasting space?   Meaning they could have ripped to redbook 16bit/44.1kHz and it would pretty much sound the same?    

I enjoy the sound from my Sony X1061 and while I have some gripes about my Sony, which actually have grown over time, none have to do with sound quality really.   Gripes:   I hate the fact that the player resets the libray after connecting to add songs (PC/W7). Occasionally the library...

I was lucky enough to purchase SilentOne's Sophia 274B rectifier, he's moved on to the much better EML.   Are drive tubes that significant? Will be using the 274B with a WA6.

If only it had 2 outputs. I need to feed a headphone amp and my active desktop speakers.

  Quote: Why would that help? Even in jest is that really necessary when someone is anticipating something?

Quote: Haven't monitored during drop-outs or glitches yet but I think they may indeed be caused by some other background process. I hope that's an orphaned entry, strange just a bunch of numbers and no manufacturer.   Quote:   I do like MS Security Essentials and have it...

  Quote: This sounds like an interesting option to build a small, possibly mini-itx, standalone desktop audio PC. Think I will look into small cases and PSUs (hopefully there are nice efficient PSUs out there for small PC cases).

Uh oh, this is somewhat unrelated but I decided to go into Services (msconfig -> startup) to turn some things off and I found something strange:     It was set to Startup up which I unchecked. Manufacturer is unknown and the location of the exe file is in the Appdata\Local\Temp folder...

Thank you, looks like the DPC Latency tests are good. This was while playing back lossless files to my EMU 0404 USB: