Anyone done it? So a couple of years ago, I mean probably a decade ago when I was here, there was someone who posted about sending in their stax sigma to the American distributor to get it upgraded with lambda 404 drivers, cable and headband. I contacted the distributor back then for a quote...

Hi, I know there exist a thread here in head-fi with instructions on how to do this, but i can't find it anymore. I haven't been on these boards for a long time (happy wallet) so it's hard for me to track it down (was it in that long stax thread?) I bought a Stax SRM-300 from audiocubes and...

Initially, i had a budget of 100$ but i've upped that to 300 to cover these two. What i'm looking for is soundstaging, since it's the one thing that i'm missing with my otherwise great staxes (even the sigmas). Which of these two will be the best overall and more specifically better, more...

Like it says in the title. Sound quality not an issue, just want light, CHEAP (as in no more than 100$), wireless headphones, if earbud size is possible that's even better. Thanks. (Can you imagine me working out with the stax sigmas on my head? )

I have a m-audio sonica that supports 24bit output. With foobar, when i output 24bit, i will get a periodic screech, whether it be on KS or DS. On 16bit, it sounds okay. The Sonica is plugged to a ubs1.1 laptop. Is it the bandwidth of the usb that is causing this problem? Theoretically, should...

I was wondering if in general the original release sound better than recompilations? Perhaps involving some reprocessing and leveling the various tracks in a compilation, the sound would be degraded?

I have three sources on my computer right now, one is integrated soundcard, the other two are usb soundcards. Does anyone know of a program that can send the audio signal through multiple sources at the same time so that i can compare them just by switching inputs?

Hi everyone, i just recieved the DA 2.03e. The manual is puzzling me with regards to the upsampling buttons. Here's what the manual says: Fs-AUTO: When the "Fs-AUTO" is on, it is the condiction of random frequency.[sic] 88.2KHz: When the "88.2KHz" is on, it is the condiction of random...

I'm interested in a pair of these but haven't seen any reviews around. I've seen on their webpage that they got their cable philosophy straight and are sticking to it and what they say is all believable, but "hearing is believing" and i want the opinion from people. On their price comparison...

With people claiming that different coax cables can sound different because of the amount of jitter introduced, what about USB cables? Or does it not matter at all? Do external USB DAC clock the data itself after it's already gone through the USB cable? Should i go look for "audiophile grade!"...

I thought it would have been a good idea to get win xp x64 to take advantage of the 64bit capabilities of my athlon but what a big mistake, a some software very essential to me doesn't run on it. Software isn't too bad since some 32bit programs still run. Hardware is a lot more troublesome. They...

Hi. I'm new here, but lets skip the introduction. I heard that tubes degrade with time (or usage) but i haven't heard anything like that about solid-state amps. I'm a guy who's not planning on modding or replacing parts, i don't want to bother going around looking for tubes, matching pairs and...