For anyones interest: I just swapped back over to OSX and thought I would try ALAC again, as I had real issues with them in the last firmware - not playing, freezing, ID tags not showing etc - making them unpredictable and thus unusable for me.     So far, on latest V3 firmware:   Not a...

So for anyone else on OSX - that needs to know: I opened the X3 in terminal went to the root folder ls -la shows all the files rm the specific files rm -r if they are folders to delete System Volume Information: rm -r "System Volume Information"/ The best app I found is "Blue Harvest", as...

Just installed FW3 on my X3. Forgive me if this has been mentioned - I had a search, but can't find any info: FW3: When I now browse files I see ".spotlight", ".trashes" "system information" I don't want to see these things at all, and certainly don't wish to have to browse past them all the...

Apple lossless is fine if you DON'T use the 'category' function on the x3, ie: Genre. I converted my m4a's to flac because of the huge amount of "unkown genre" on my meticulously tagged music collection. Problem solved, no more 'unknown anything' (I also ran into other 'unknown' issues such as...

that's really good info. The isolation needs to work both ways, which is what drew me to the se125's. A large part of the problem is that the nearest city with *possibly* a shop with this kind of stuff is about 3000k away. Makes all of this a bit difficult (the majority of my posts are " whats...

I was about to buy some shure se125's (possibly the extended bass edition) for my X3 - but now I am not so sure. (Arghhh :o). I need a good isolating iem, which the shures are, but am concerned that the dynamic range does not extend and that the extended version may be too muddy. Would any of...

Sorry to revive a thread (actually I am not - but it seems polite). Can you tell me: is the bass muddy and floppy on the bass editions? For example for classical / baroque? Is it a tight sound? I need some good sound insulation iems, and was going for the standard 215 because of price and...

Yes I see your point. Yes, progressive was the problem on some (lots) of my artwork, it got very tedious as I was checking everyhting on a rockboxed ipod first. 500 seems to be fine on my x3, because I have music cross platform, it seemed like a good compromise....but I so old fashioned I miss...

the only time I have had an issue is when the file has more information than normal/corrupted header - sometimes too high a resolution. It will show up as artwork on the pc in mp3tag, but does not show elswhere, even though they are embedded. I have resized ALL my images to : 500x500 @ 72 dpi...

Well, in sonic quality, it IS a major step up. You will really notice a difference. (I came from the same place). Really it will have much to do with your Source Files. If  the majority is average, below average mp3, then no, probably not much of a step except perhaps in separation. If they...

Mine just wont seal in my ears, no matter what. Even the extra flanged version. Not a good design, though when I push them in my ears and leave my fingers there, they sound pretty good :p

have you got looked at the file info in vlc? (cmd i). have a look at the codec tab  > stream, it might be that hybrid is doing something weird to it? Should only say  Type: Audio Codec: Flac Channels: Stereo Sample rate 44100 Hz Bits per sample 16   Apologies in advance if you know this...

Correct, Its because there are "extraneous" properties that fat32 is not able to keep, like ratings, author etc - though all the pertinent id tagging we use stays ok in the file header. So its not deleting your painfully beautifully audio tags. Normally from ntfs, hfs type to fat32 is the cause...

Thanks - ill check it out. I was using mediamonkey - but noticed a couple of "rolled R's" which sounded like a subtle kind of jitter to me. Need to check original files.. Same as above - don't mind paying for good tools. Thanks for the link. I am organised into Artist>album>track, but...

Yes, thanks, that is what I am using at the moment. They DO play - rather nicely - I must say on the X3, and frankly until the genres can be displayed in a folder/album way then its not particularly useful to use the genre option anyway. It is specific to M4a, both alac and aac. Thankfully I...

ok. Third post on the same night, sorry to be repetitive here: There is definitely a problem with how this machine deals with the metadata from the m4a container. Just to see, I just took the suspect alac's into itunes and converted them (into the same file type - alac), but it can't read the...

ok - further to my post here:  still having issues with Genre tagging, but only in the X3.   Again they are m4a files, this time Drive by Truckers...including "world of Hurt" which is how this is starting feel. Anyone else having these issues with m4a files? (this time they are .AAC)   I...

Trying to get X3 to recognise the genre: Baroque. Doesn't want to see it and puts it in the "Unkown Genre"..... It is seen on my rockbox ipod 5.5, it sees it in any tag editor I have, pc and mac. (These are .m4a files btw. Other m4a files Seem ok ATM.) Mind you, I am having issues using the...

Yes, i see how it goes now.

It would be good to have the best of both worlds, good cable with right angle plugs. I always wonder about the strain on the sockets, which tend to be pcb mount, thus held on by solder only, not chassis mounted. But then I am a bit like that. :blink:

Well - I was just listening to killing Joke "absolute dissent", I love how utterly dense their mixes are, but in honesty I listen to a lot of classical , zappa and film scores such as morricone and zimmer. T.

In brief: I only have experience with monitors and headphones designed for recording / isolation / monitoring .......And its been so long I listened to headphones for pleasure:) So I honestly dont know- Its hard to say the word "nuetral" as its often another word for "boring", which is good for...

What are owners / peoples thoughts for a good match $150 ish IEM for the x3? I got some brainwaves r3 pretty much free from mp4nation, but I really don't like them, especially as the memory wire stuff goes Over the ear.....I just can' get them to fit well, even with comply's, so a bit hesitant...

Well, my X3 arrived from mp4nation today. I have only had time to listen to 2 genres (Flac 16/44) Joni Mitchell: Hijera Hans Zimmer: Inception Soundtrack. Both flat eq. Gain Lo. FW 2.1 64gig sandisc sdxc Gapless ON ( and working in limited testing) I only have my Monitoring headphones here -...

Well, you certainly took that well ibizai9100. Commendations on a reasoned reply. It amazes me that people don't perceive the irony of their rants. Its funny, because most audiophiles don't get their hearing tested. Because I have worked with so much audio, I do and I know I have a drop at...