I have a Panasonic DMP-BD87 Bluray player I got for 10 bucks from Goodwill. It has left and right RCA audio jacks, which I'm hooking into some computer speakers using a male L & R RCA (The BD player) to male 3.5 mm jack (the speakers). Obviously I'm not going to be listening to the full-blown...

Was ripping another CD, using, as I always have, this tutorial. Noticed this one part here, where he sets bit rate and it's only 1024 kBit/s, which is the highest option in the dropdown. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what this setting actually is, but CD quality bitrate is 1,411 kbps and we're...

Just ripped two CDs to .flac files. According to the first's log file, four tracks do not have 100 % track quality. Three say "Track quality 99.8 %" and one is 99.7 %. All tracks say "Accurately ripped (confidence 25)". Near the end of the log file says:   Track | CTDB Status   1   | (94/96)...

My brother is in the market. Here's what we're dealing with!   The man digs his metal. Seriously, you should see the beard and mane on this bro. Sound leakage doesn't matter too much. My impression is that the kind of bass that metal requires would probably mean closed backs, but open backs...

So there's this Turtle Beach thing that appears to be mostly used for gaming. It takes in surround sound and processes it for headphones. Does anyone know whether or not it would also work with a dedicated Bluray player? The DSS is USB powered and gets audio from an optical in.   Thanks a lot.

Been watching Blu Rays on my laptop using an external Blu Ray drive and listening using my Sennheiser 598 plugged right into the laptop's 3.5 mm, no other audio equipment. Despite the horror stories I've heard about the PC Blu Ray scene, things have been largely fine, with one exception.   I'm...

EDIT: My situation becomes clearer in the following posts.   Thinking about buying a Bluray player but I'm not in an environment where I feel comfortable blasting full surround sound, so I've decided to use my Sennheiser 598 cans for Bluray. Unfortunately, my impression is that most Bluray...

Ripping to FLAC for the first time today. According to Foobar2000, the bitrates are different from the same tracks on CD. Some drop from 1411 to 630 kbps.   As I said I'm new. Is this a problem? Why wouldn't the Bitrate be the same? So does that mean these files aren't CD quality? It's...

Right now I've got a Fiio E10K and a pair of Audio Technica ATH M50x's. The fact that those cans have no mic is not a problem since I'm gaming on my laptop. But what if I get a PS4 in a few months? Can I set things up where I've got a separate mic for chatting and use the Astro MixAmp and M50x's...

Whenever a sound is played through my Fiio E10K after a silence of literally any length of time, there's a noticable *fzzt* or "pop" sound. Whenever audio stops that noise happens again.   So, for example, I was mousing of the menu options of The Stanley Parable's in-game menu. The menu is...

Hello,   Just got the Fiio E10K Olympus 2 and I want to make sure it's actually fulfilling its function properly. I've heard...conflicting reports about whether or not this thing is plug and play.   The instructions say that instructions for installing drivers should appear onscreen when I...

What's up people,   My M50's are on the way and I'm new to cans that don't cost 20 bucks. I'm hearing conflicting reports about whether the so-called "burn-in" process is a myth or a real thing. That said, I've heard several folks with M50's attest to the benefits of a good burn-in, so I think...