I had the opportunity to listen, finally, to Arcade Fire's latest, Reflektor recently. It was a FLAC rip of a CD so should have been OK, but I found it to be a mess - pretty much unlistenable. Has anyone else had this experience? I like this band a lot, so it's not the music itself. Am I:   a)...

As the title suggests, I've been a little disappointed in listening to classical music on my HE500s. I have them hooked up to a DA&T Amp/DAC and feed them with FLACs from a computer. So fare they have been outstanding with vocal music (Joni Mitchell's Blue is wonderful), with electronic (Jon...

I've been using my MacBook Air (iTunes and Audirvana) as my source, but I'm running out of disk space. I'm considering shifting the entire library to either a USB hard drive  (I have a 500GB one floating about unused) or moving it to my WD MyBook Live NAS. Putting it on the USB drive would allow...

Hi,   I finally took the plunge and have purchased my first (semi-)serious set-up. Budget was definitely a limitation, as was availability, as right now I live in Shanghai. My current HPs are some Klipsch S4a's and some Sennheiser Momentum, both of which have been pretty great actually. But...

Hello   I have fairly recently accidentally fallen into the potential money-pit that is Head-Fi.. I've been enjoying the significant upgrade to my on-the-go musical enjoyment that my Sennhesier Momentum / HTC One combination has given me. However, having done a bit of research on Head-Fi, I...

Hi   I wonder if you could advise please. I have an HTC One and a Macbook Air which I fairly regularly use as a source paired with my Sennheiser Momentums. Sounds pretty good.. but I'm getting greedy and after much trawling of this forum I've discovered that such a thing as a portable DAC...