If you use an optimized PC Tidal sounds almost Ah, sorry! There's a section in the app called 360. If you hit the search button and scroll past the genres, it's right there.

Tidal is a music app. I think it's $10/month for Master quality music at 192 quality. The regular quality sounds great with a mobile network but the Master quality only works well with WiFi. 360 is Master quality and is almost binaural. Very impressive coming from the internet. Not a big...

I tried my cheap Motorola, a first gen Hugo, and Tidal 360 today. Wow. This is streaming? Oh my God. There isn't much difference between the different Hugo gens at less than DSD quality, right? Better to ride my first gen till it quits? I've already had to replace the board.

HE-6 is the weirdest headphone. Strap it to a speaker amp and it is all beauty. Custom cables are necessary. The Chinese owner might not have designed it that way. It might be pure accident. It doesn't matter. Give the HE-6 power. It behaves like an American muscle car. Through a headphone...

I'm now pushing the HE-6 with a Pioneer SX-1250 through its headphone jack. A forum member recommended the Pioneer because it could power the HE-6 without using speaker taps. I bought the Pioneer because I had gold-plated silver headphone cables I did not want adapted for speakers. I am using a...

You need a broken cable. I use one that breaks into XLR and mini. I plug the broken mini in first to activate exterior mode, then plug in the main cable. It doesn't activate the high-mode, but activates the mid. If you want high, you must root the phone.

Found the movie for you. 'City of the Living Dead' (1980) by Lucio Fulci. He also did Zombi 2 (with the shark fight).

Oh yeah! I can't remember the title. I'm at work, I can find it when I get home. It's a dope movie. The bastards teleport behind you and palm your skull. Squish.

Man, you've got a lot of stuff! Are you really Rob Zombie? That zombie picture you posted looked like it was from that Italian movie where a corpse battles a shark. That's the only zombie that tops the teleporting ones from the other Italian movie. For me, the gold silver tamed the treble...

Thanks for your help! Does the HE converter device disturb the sound any? I already have a reference gold-plated silver headphone cable. If I could just use speaker cables and the converter it would be so much easier than buying a new cable with an extra meter length just to reach the amp' s rear.

Cool, thanks for confirming. I was gonna hold on till I heard the gear till I bought a new cable. What do you think of Cardas clear headphone cable?

Rob Zombie? Is that you? I see your vintage receiver list. I just picked up a Pioneer SX-1250. It's supposed to push the HE6 from headphone jack. If you want, I'll let you how it goes!

Man, that's an old post. I just bought a 160W vintage amp to push my HE6 so I'm gonna keep them. I'm even getting the HE6 professionally modded... I'm sorry, bro! You're a couple years too late.

V20 has a replaceable battery. You can give it four times more life. The V20 is better than the V30 because the V30 has fixed battery. You can buy a V20 from Asia, dual SIM, and unlocked. No bull with the rooting.

Bad programming. Try Linux straight-up. Hard to configure. Sounds better. MPD is very good. Opus programmers are Koreans learning an English-based OS. They have to learn an Englishman's idea of mathematics. When I was learning code I found that my ideas were much easier to translate into...

Good question! I was using Neutron Player today, which is good--but the LG player sounds better. Even if you set 3rd party applications right they still don't sound as good. I've been experimenting with Linux. It, indeed, sounds better than Windows. And 3rd party applications don't sound as...

I was using 4k Downloader. Download video, only. I decompress to .wav with JRiver Media Center. Select 'Convert to Audio'. Tag with JRiver. You can convert to .flac, It doesn't sound as good, though. I only decompress to .wav. .wav doesn't carry Tags, is the only problem. I don't care, though...

Power of the V20/30 is streaming. Decompressing and sending to your ear. Any composer/artist/band/group you want, type in their name and 'topic'. Not everything you want is there, but most is. V20/30 asks the web. The web gives.

No. It's true. You can try Chick Corea's 'Romantic Warrior'. It streams 1440p. If you download and decompress it is actually 24/96. A number of of uploaders vinyl-rip.

You can plug in quality 'phones and get good DAC quality. You can also listen to YouTube music at 24/48 and watch Netflix. The phone doesn't sound as good as a dedicated DAP or DAC in the $800 range. But it sounds close and is uplinked to the world-wide web, something DAPs/DACs can't do. It's...

Who always tempts me forward are Stevie Wonder and Sun Ra. What were people hearing on their Stevie and Sun Ra vinyls? I want to hear, too! But I won't ever have those vinyls. I can only obtain digitally. Who does Quincy Jones like? And so, I explore my HE6, because few will say who inspires.

If it works straight through the headphone jack then I may be sold. I have some very expensive cables that will work right away. I'll go to Austin in person so I'll jack into all of the receivers.

Alright! I'll call Austin tomorrow. I also have a friend who is giving away some old equipment. I don't know what there is. His father was an audiophile. I'll have a look Wed. and research the models. Anything promising I'll take pictures of.

You're right! I'll ask the cable engineer to be sure. Easy to work with unbalanced.

I haven't done bare wiring in a while. I have a cable with spades. Can I cut those spades off, trim off some skin, and expose the copper? I'd hate to pay money if it's that easy. You think my Opus#2 will work as DAC? It will be easy to get a 2.5 TRRS to RCA cable made. (I shouldn't be spending...