I just popped in the thread to say that my E1 Muses is now giving off a burning smell. I have narrowed it down to the headphone amp, as when I pull out my headphones the tip of the jack gives off quite a strong burned smell. The audio also seems to be crackling in and out on some occasions...

Hey Sk1n5, Thanks very much for the tip! I keep getting occasional BSODs and I can tell it's due to foobar and ASIO :( . Just yesterday I got a corrupted foobar theme file after the BSOD. Had to remake my layout and theme out of nothing (I think I got most of it right, but what a headache; it...

I would have to disagree on that :P . Volume depends on the source. Yes it can drive 600 ohms easily and most modern music will be blaring at 80% (the fun kind of blaring, not the ear splitting "JesusChristIhavetoturnthisdownori'llgodeafholyheck" kind of blaring) but I have a few oldies with...

I completely agree. It's moronic to have a 1000 dollar product exhibit such ground level faults like this. It's inexcusable and I would not have bought it had I known of this beforehand. But seeing as I am stuck with it, I still enjoy it very much with my T1's and Audioengine speakers.

Hi derbigpr. It shouldn't, but it does. I have one and it's hard to use low impedance headphones with the unit as you need to bring the volume dial up past 9 o' clock or so to get rid of the imbalance. Also, I can swear the issue was more prevalent on the first couple of weeks after I got it...

OK, I set the foobar buffer length to around 6000ms (anything higher and the spectrum visualization was reduced to 10fps) and messed around with ASIO control panel. There is a bit depth option there. It was set to 16bits. I set it to 24/32. The delay and crackle/pops when switching songs or...

After installing the wasapi component, I get 2 options in foobar output options: either wasapi (event) or wasapi (push) . I have no idea what to pick and since I don't want to break anything, I thought I'd ask here first. EDIT: yeah, the bit-perfect feature does not work when selectin wasapi. E1...

Swolern, if you select ASIO: E1 as your output device then you are already running bit-perfect. Since you said you were running foobar with ASIO, then you must have the bit-perfect feature up and running. I have no problems running foobar with Direct Sound through the windows mixer. The problem...

Thanks for the reply TJ Max. Yes, exclusive mode enabled. I use the regular ASIO driver. Is ASIO4ALL the same? I've heard of it and read that it can help some issues where regular ASIO driver is causing problems. I've also read sound quality is inferior with ASIO4ALL. Is it not a user-made ASIO...

I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but does the E1 support wasapi output? I've been using foobar with ASIO but I get frequent BSODs with "irql_not_less_or_equal" messages. Furthermore, audible pops when starting or stopping a song and a clear delay (1 second) when moving the song...

  I see no reason why it should be better. Still, I was under the impression that the muses had a gaing switch at the back for lower impedance headphones (like my AD700x's). Apparently not so really I could have made the upgrade myself, I guess. No big deal. It's here now and sounding stellar.

  True enough. I live in Portugal and could not find the muses anywhere. It was on sale through amazon.uk for a while and I was eyeballing it for a couple of months but never did make the decision to get it (partly because of financial capability, partly because of uncertainty) but once...

Great point, Anarion. I also didn't know I could check db by right clicking. Thank you.

I can only imagine. Although I'm not the biggest fan of Pink Floyd, David Gilmour solo stuff is exceptionally well produced and I enjoy it very much. I will look up the DVD you mentioned, although I don't have a nice surround setup and doubt I will anytime soon. Not a lot of room to acommodate it.

Hi Swolern, Yes, I am on the same boat. Blown away at how good this combination of mine sounds :) . Very glad you are enjoying your HD800 and E1. I was on the fence between the T1s and those but since I'm european and most of my online purchases are made through amazon.uk, these were just...

Thanks a lot, Ari33. You took the time to read a bit of the link as well :) . Yeah, I tend to think I am doing it right as I spent the afternoon listening to some 24bit /96-192 khz recordings and was absolutely blown away (yet again, it's everyday with this setup which I got myself for...

Like the title says, what would you say is the best source to control audio volume with so as to reduce noise and achieve the best SQ possible? It seems obvious to assume that you would want the least to do with software volume controls, as they are essentially messing with the signal and (or...

  Hey leeperry, Thanks for the links, but I fail to see how iTunes is capable of WASAPI exclusive playback. If that were the case, I would not be able to hear sound from other applications, right? Anyway, this is all extremely confusing and, imo, very badly documented. I have decided to...

Hey, man. Yeah, as you can see I never really got an answer. But I did come to some sort of closure by myself. You might want to take a gander at this: http://hifiduino.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/itunes-11-02-playback-bitrate/ Basically: I can't say upsampling hurts my music in any way...

I didn't know that. Seems really handy, thanks for sharing. Still a pain in the ass, though :p . Between converting files and the option of adding sample rate to the sorting bar at the top of the itunes library (instead of sorting the diff sample rates between playlists) I think I'll stick with...

Thanks for all the answers. You were very helpful.     Quote:   Well, I kinda like having the nicer sounding FLACs apart from the rest of the mp3 rabble. Sort of like a filetype royalty, haha. (especially considering I only get FLACs of albums that are especially well mixed and/or produced).

Thank you very much. I have RMAA open. Where is the section where I can measure r/l volumes? Edit: Nevermind. It wasn't even necessary to plug it into the line input. A USB connection was suitable to check the levels. IT's just since you said "connect it to the line input" in your first...

  That sounds like a good idea but how do I go about connecting it like that, pardon the noob question. I mean, the E1 has a coaxial input but all I have on the back of my PC is a light blue Analog line level audio input. Should I get a coaxial to minijack cable? I'm really a noob when it comes...

Ok, I might be going crazy here. After another hour of earnest testing with my ATH Ad700x's (by listening to the same song with them connected to the E1 muses and then to my X-fi xtreme audio) and then with the T1's (doing the same) It seems that the imbalance is mostly caused by the T1's...

I have recently acquired an E1 Muses edition and a pair of Beyerdynamic T1's. I am already going crazy with the issue of channel imbalance. Please bear with me. I have read through the majority of pages on this thread. Especially the ones that mention the issue of channel imbalance. I live...