Hey thanks, shortly after I made this post I found dbpoweramp and have been using it ever since, it's easily one of my favorite programs of all time!

Thanks a lot for the information, I'm strongly considering the X2s now. The current headphones I have are Klipsch Image Ones, so this would be my first high quality pair of headphones. When it comes to "driving" headphones, how will I know if the iPod is driving the X2s well? Are there any big...

Hm, I've actually never heard of those but doing a quick search they seem to be awesome. I was pretty torn in trying to figure out which headphones to buy, and settled on the 598s just because of all of the raving reviews for them. However, I primarily listen to metal music, and was a little...

Ok cool thanks for the help, does the E12 run off of a battery that you charge or does it need to plug in during use? And is the price jump from $73 for the E07 to $130 for the E12 worth it?

Hey everyone, I'm planning on getting a pair of Sennheiser HD598s soon, and have been reading that to get the most out of them it's best to use a headphone amplifier and to look into a DAC/amp combo. Two that I have been looking at are the Fiio E10k and the E07. I could just use a little...

Looks like the HD600s on Amazon are ~340, would you recommend them?

Hey everyone,   I currently have a pair of Klipsch Image One on-ear headphones that I got as a gift around 2 years ago, and they were my first set of "real" headphones. Now, I'm looking to upgrade to the next level and was hoping to get some suggestions from you guys.   I mainly listen to...

Awesome thanks a lot for the help, I think I am going to go with the CD/DVD so I definitely plan on trying this out. I'll look into programs you suggested and let you know when I'm going to give it a shot, I appreciate the help!

Hey everyone, Sorry if this is a dumb question, but lately I've been debating whether to get Opeth's Still Life remaster or track down the original CD. I've read that the remaster CD is pretty compressed and overall worse than the original, but that the DVD, if downmixed, can yield the best...

Ok that sounds good, I'll just leave them as AAC then. Thanks for the information. 

Oh, I didn't realize that, I thought it was a separate and more limited format. Thanks. 

I thought FLAC was more compatible than AAC?

Hi everyone,   I mostly buy audio CDs, but for some artists I can't find any physical media anywhere so I buy off of iTunes. I'm currently playing my music on a Rockbox'd iPod video 5.5, and all of my files are FLAC that were ripped from CDs.    Now, I know that AAC-->FLAC will not give me...

Hey Everyone,   I have a pair of Klipsch Image One headphones that I got as a gift, I know that they aren't the greatest but they're sort of my first step into the world of higher quality headphones. I recently installed Rockbox on my iPod 5.5gen and I've heard that EQ can be used sparingly to...

  I'm pretty sure it is a 5.5, just because it has a "search" function and from what I've read the standard 5th generations do not (also got it off of amazon from a 3rd party seller advertised as a 5.5 80GB, though that doesn't really mean much!). The place that I bought it from said that the...

  It says "TM and c2005 Apple Computer Inc." on the back, is that what I'm looking for?

Hi everyone,   I recently got a refurbished iPod video 5.5gen and I am currently trying to rockbox it. However, when I go to the rockbox utility and set my mount point and everything, after clicking "install" it comes up saying "could not open iPod" and the installation never progresses.   I...

  Thanks for the link, I'll definitely check it out!   And the reason I asked the initial question now is because I won't have access to my PC until this coming weekend, so out of boredom I figured I'd get everything figured out now so I can waste no time and get right to ripping my CDs come...

  Thank you for the clarification. To be honest I've never heard of Foobar as I don't listen to music on my PC currently. I mostly listen on my macbook or on my iPhone, but now that my macbook is wiped and I have the 5.5gen iPod I figured I'd rock box it and make that my primary player now.  ...

Thanks for the replies guys, like I said I'm pretty new to EAC and have only used it maybe 3 times so I wasn't sure if setting it to rip to FLAC was complicated.    The only thing confusing me is that it says "download and install both EAC and FLAC".....what exactly are you installing when you...

Thanks for the reply, I plan on archiving my music on a 1TB external HD, so do you think I should just use EAC to rip all of my CDs to .wav, put them on my external HD, then use something like Foober to convert them all to FLAC for use on my iPod?

Hey everyone,   I've been ripping to my iTunes library for a while now in ALAC format, and two days ago my laptop hard drive had a physical meltdown that lost all of my data (which I foolishly didn't back up).   I saw that as a sign that now would be a good time to go ahead and re-rip my CDs...

Thanks for the information, I actually never heard of that before but I'll definitely check them out!

Thank you for your advice! I will look into Rockbox more for sure before I decide. Just out of curiosity, would you still choose the 5.5 over the 7th even if I chose to not Rockbox it? I also found a 120gb 5.5 (refurbished battery and HD) for less money than the 80gb 5.5, so that is very...

Thanks for your advice, you are correct the iPod I am looking at must be mislabeled as 7th gen.   You are also right with the price....I've been looking mostly at Ebay but it seems Amazon also has refurbished 5.5s and 7th gens for much cheaper used. If you don't mind, could you explain what...