I just got new IEMs (HF3) for use with my iPhone and I love the isolation provided by the foam tips. My goal is to leave IEMs w/ foam tips in my ears when I'm studying or working and have some relaxing music playing at a really low volume in the b/g. The problem is that the minimum volume...

Update: chadbang has won the contest Winner has been PMd and should get the airhead soon

Contest is now closed. I'll evaluate the entries this weekend and PM the winner soon

Quote: Originally Posted by cyberidd I was thinking of getting some nice tin cans, woody modding them, and of course powering them with one of these v http://www.utsa.edu/RoadrunnerDays/iron-man.jpg [de-inlined] to power it! I bet you could mod this in some way...

I was trying to dispose of this amp ever since I got the Little Dot amp months ago. However, I graduated, moved, etc and never go to it. I thought I'd give it away to someone deserving since I don't have much use of it anymore. I remember how hard it was to scrape cash together for buying gear...

Quote: Originally Posted by lordmozilla I have a mate who runs ubuntu 8.04 with Compiz fusion on an EEE pc. I have to admit that really suprised me. It's also really smooth as long as you don't enable transparency which the onboard Intel 915 doesn't like. Try running aero on an Intel...

Quote: Originally Posted by fjf We don't need benchmarks. We tried to run vista OOB with aero enabled in a (normal) laptop. Have you?. It is usually so slow you cant work. Also, I recommend you browse a bit around ubuntuforums.org. You'll see there are thousands of normal users there...

Quote: Originally Posted by lordmozilla Vista is slower than linux. On pretty much all fronts maybe except at running vista. Virtualisation is inherently a little slower. How many windows forums have windows developers that are willing to help you out free of charge? And here is...

I recently got a E-MU 0202 DAC and it sounds pretty darn good . The 0202 comes with its own ASIO implementation and ASIO 4 All doesn't seem to work. I have a question about sampling rates. No matter what sampling rate I choose for the 0202, Mp3's with different sampling rates continue to...

Have you tried enabling Digital Audio for your CDROM? Heres how to set that: rt. click My Comp. > Properties > Hardware > Device Manager > DVD/CD-ROM Drives > rt. click your drive > properties

Quote: Originally Posted by jiiteepee - Master volume control (set this to 100%) (this is normally in task bar and your audio level control keys (found on laptop) reacts to this one), IIRC the Master Volume should be set at 50% for no coloring post-mixing. A Quick way to do...

Hmm, I was curious if anybody knows of SQ tests done with a 0db gain RockBoxed ipod source? I use it sometimes and it sounds pretty darn nice. Not disagreeing with above posts, just was wondering if anybody has any technical info.. Edit: Sorry for the thread hijack ..

Quote: Originally Posted by nytryder7 Is that for jogging?

My current setup is Nano (RockBoxed) > LD MK III > K 701 and if I pause the player and turn up the amp volume, I get a faint buzz. Not terribly important since I don't listen at those volumes, just another cause of future upgraditis

Quote: Originally Posted by Dept_of_Alchemy Um, get a DAC. It makes no sense to amp a headphone out signal, all you're gonna get is more noise and distortion. After that, I'd suggest trying to roll some tubes. Yeah, thats the next thing I will get when I save up some cash.

Quote: Originally Posted by tdogzthmn Where did the OP get the Little Dot MK III and for how much? I got it from their ebay store. IIRC it came to around $245 w/ US shipping.

Hello, I recently upgraded my amp from the airhead to Little Dot MK III. I'm using it with the AKG K 701's ( 5 Months old with regular listening ) . I set up a few blind tests with a friend and could easily tell the difference (with some caveats). My sound source is a laptop line-out. Here are...

Sorry for not updating this. I decided to get the Little Dot MK III It hopefully should be sufficient for now.

Quote: Originally Posted by boomana I'd do some searches in this forum regarding K701s and amps. There have been numerous threads that should be able to help you out. The least expensive amp that I know of that is known for great synergy with the K701s is the Heed Canamp, but even used...

Quote: Originally Posted by tomjtx Do you mean an amp/dac with usb input? If you are listening from your computer I think you need usb not spdif. The total bithead would work. But if you want to upgrade from the airhead amp the bithead wouldn't do that. I believe it has the same...

Quote: Originally Posted by boomana The K701s need more juice than most portables can really give, and with your need for a dac, $200 just isn't going to do it. You picked a reference quality headphone, and it needs a bit more than other cans. You can get decent amps for the K701s for...

Hello, Could any of you suggest a good amp for the K701s with SPDIF input? I'm looking to buy a good used one. My budget is around $200ish but is flexible. I'm currently using the Total Airhead I bought a few months ago. I just got some cash to upgrade my setup and I thought a good amp should...

The problem was that my Winamp was too old. I upgraded to the latest and ASIO is working great now

I'll give it a spin. Thanks !

I'm using ASIO4ALL v2.7. I've maxed out the buffer size, in/out samples and kernel buffers. and unchecked all the checkboxes.