Sorry if I've posted this in the wrong place, it's just that I don't know where the right place is... Is there something wrong with the Head-Fi site? (or its servers? or its site-hosting facility? or its something-else?) Or is it just me? For the last couple weeks, it's been terribly slow...

One of the guys at Pacific Valve writes a blog under the name Vic Trola. In his 9/13 post, he reported on using a DAC-AH-Modded both with and without their upsampler. He reports that sending an upsampled 96kHz signal to the DAC-AH-M made it sound way, way better. This was counter to his...

I've not had an outboard DAC, and I don't know if one will be helpful to me. (I live on the far side of nowhere, so there's nothing to be gained by telling me I should go listen to some.) Here's what I listen to and through: alt-preset-Extreme mp3's via an Echo Indigo I/O card in a Toshiba...

What about the design of iPods and other DAP's prevent modders from adding a digital-out connection? Is there no way to get to the internal DAC's output? Does everything live in a single chip? Are there no ways to get to the DAC's output pins? Or what?

Am in the early but still painful and uncertain stages of DAC-think. As if there's not anything more important to do. (No wonder the Third World hates us.) It seems that this thing has a DAC in it, but I don't know if it is likely to be worth a hoot in a home audio system? (Said system is...

Well, "heathen" might be too strong a word. Let's just say that I'm a casual fan of classical music, but don't know much about it. I fully trust that some people here are infinitely more knowledgable about classical music than I am. Rather than spend time and money on unguided trial-and-error...

I don't know about you, but having all my music in digital form has changed my life in terms of day-to-day behavior. I've got things set up so that I've got an old laptop with a good sound card feeding the main stereo system, and I operate it remotely from the laptop I actually use all the time...

I am confused by what I have read here. AFAIK, I have read everything that's around here about the Grado 325i's. I thought I read one thing, but recent posts have caused me to question whether I was sifting through it all correctly. I'm just trying boil down what people think about them. Here's...

My Denon AVR4802 has Analog Devices AD-1854 24/96 DAC's. I know these are a few years old. I don't know how well have they aged, given all the stuff that's more recent. By today's standards, where are they on the scale from Crappy (0) to Decent (50) to Good (100)? Are there particular qualities...

Boy, am I happy. For years, I had been amazed by the positive effect of using a hardware BBE processor. With my change from CD's to mp3's, I wanted to get BBE in the output chain of my mp3 player. Fortunately, BBE makes a software plug-in. It moves their BBE processor from a dedicated hardware...

I have enjoyed seeing online photographs of various Audio Technica's. The models with wood and leather cups are especially beautiful. I appreciate it when people go to the trouble to make beautiful things. I'm curious about how much of the value of these items are about the aesthetics of looking...

Am considering running a high quality IC cable from laptop's Echo Indigo to headphone amp, mini-plugs on each end. What's the longest that cable can be without bad effects?

This might be a pointless exercise, but let's try it anyway... I am familiar with the following IEM's: ER6 (not 6i'); ER4P; Super.fi 5 Pro. For each of these 3, which cans would be the most analogous? I am also familiar with Sony MDR-V6's and just a little bit familiar with HD-600's...

Evidently, you can now get custom ear molds for Etymotics for $115 without a trip to the audiologist: http://earplugstore.stores.yahoo.net/cusfitearmol1.html. Does anyone know if custom ear molds make much of a difference? I am very happy with my ER-4P's. I don't need better isolation or...

This board has convinced me to upgrade the cable on my HD-600's. (Sorry about *my* wallet ;-) The confusing part is which one. Please don't fuss at me. I *have* used the search function. I *have* read about a zillion posts about this. Along the way, I *have* read about half-a-zillion posts about...

Here's the "short story" version: My Toshiba laptop has USB ports everywhere, plus a S/PDIF jack. I want to send 24-bit digital audio stream to a Headroom Micro DAC. I really do not wanna have to buy another card to do this, and have it hanging out of the laptop, if I can do it via either of...