Thanks for the recommendation of the Comply T-400's. I'm pretty happy with them so far. The seal is better than the stock tips and the plastic housing doesn't seem to be hurting my ears as much I think because it's further away.   What I bought: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002P7DBCK/

Finding this thread during Chinese New Year ==    My buddy who lives in Shenzhen told me to wait till about Feb 14th before placing any orders to avoid issues.

If you want a DAC I would get the E07K. If not E11.

Is there a reason for this other than the optical features? I went with the E07K because I didn't see using optical sources.

welcome dubblewubble,   I'm totally piggybacking your thread to write my own introduction.   I'm also from Massachusetts and I'm taking night courses at UMass Lowell for Electrical Engineering Technology.   I started getting into audio components recently with a gift of some AKG 240...