I just got my HiFiMan HM-101 portable USB 16 bit 48.0 kHz DAC and headphone amplifier from Amazon for less than $27 bucks. I bought a used model in like new condition. I have two System76 Leopard Extreme and Lemur Ultra Thin PCs running Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit and it works. It shows up as PCM2702...

I've been reading Audioholics website for a pretty decent amount of time and I find them to be refreshing. No ******** going on over there. They tell the plain honest truth and they help you steer away from ******** products based on lies and snake oil. Their older articles are classics. If you...

I have a System76 Leopard Extreme and Lemur Ultra Thin running Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit and I am using Google Chromium 24.x. I can't login using Google Chromium version 24.x. I was able to login earlier today with no problems, but something happened to Head-Fi about 5 minutes ago and I can't login...

http://www.npr.org/2013/03/01/173275533/the-mix-the-austin-100   NPR is hosting a single 813 megabyte zip file containing 100 free mp3 songs from this year's Austin, Texas SXSW show on their website until April 4th, 2013. You can download individual tracks for free as well. I just thought to...

http://www.npr.org/2013/03/01/173275533/the-mix-the-austin-100   NPR is hosting a single 813.00 megabyte zip file that contains 100 free mp3 songs from this year's Austin, Texas SXSW event on their website. You can download individual tracks for free as well. I just thought that more people...

I know the CEntrance DACport works with Linux kernel 2.4+ and the latest Ubuntu 32 and 64 bit is compatible, but that's all that I know for certain. I've read that the new Meridian Explorer is also compatible with Linux kernel 2.6+ and ALSA 1.0.32 which won't be available until Ubuntu 13.04 is...

My purse took a beating over these past few weeks. I've been getting lots of stuff that I need. I got the Etymotic ER-4PT with the 4S adapter, AKG K 702, and a Toshiba 2.5" 1 TB 5400 RPM HDD. I still need a portable USB DAC and headphone amplifier. I am thinking about the HeadRoom Total BitHead...

I read some reviews of the AKG K702 here and on HeadRoom and I just placed my order. I should get them this Wednesday at the earliest or Friday at the latest from HeadRoom. I was thinking about getting the Sennheiser HD-800, but I wanted to spend a lot less money while still getting the top of...

I can't find a lot of information about the Westone 4R with the acoustic symmetry matched drivers and user replaceable cables. I need help finding good opinions and information about them.   What little results I get seem to conclude that they are the best universal IEMs under $500 and they...

This may not make a lot of sense to some people here, but I recently decided to delete my entire flac music library and I decided to switch to 320 Kbps MP3s in order to save disk space. I have about 14,500 songs and it took up about 386 gigabytes in flac format. I thought that was too much disk...

A friend of mine told me about Spotify a couple of months ago back in 2012 and he said that he stopped buying music as a result. So, I created an account using my Facebook account and I signed up for Spotify premium service yesterday.   I was wondering if anyone here listens to Spotify on a...

I wanted to know if anyone here has the AKG K3003i and could answer a couple of questions for me.   1. Does it require an Apple iPhone or iPod or a Google Android device to control the volume and mute functions? Can I use it with a regular hi-fi audio system?   2. How does it compare to...