I don't know what the Venn diagram for Spotify users and crossfeed lovers looks like, but if anyone is in the intersection then voting for this Spotify idea would be appreciated!

There's a CD I want that I can only find in one place - amazon.co.jp. I think they will ship to the UK for certain goods, but this particular CD is only available from the marketplace, and it won't let me select my UK shipping address. I've tried contacting the seller but I don't get a reply...

I'm going to have a go at making my own Corda Cross-1. I don't know whether my rotary switches need to be break-before-make or make-before-break, or if it even matters! Can anyone help?

If so, can I ask a favour? I'd like to get a couple of ECQ-P(Z) caps - to make a Corda Crossfeed filter - but the delivery charge to the UK is silly; £12 on an order of less than £5. So if some kind US DIYer would add these caps to their order, and then bung them in a little padded envelope and...

I'm selling my Apache, which is wonderful, but too big and too pricey to be sitting around for the amount I use it. So I need another amp for my beloved GS-1000, let's say a price limit of $800; needs to have very low bass but not necessarily great quantity, warm/lush mids, treble not to worried...

What's the difference between the LT1028CN8 & LT1028ACN8?

3 or 4? I know that all the headphone cables (bar SR60) use 4 conductors, but I don't know about the extension cable... If it's got 4 I'd like to re-terminate it to make a cheapo balanced extension for the rare occasions when I might need one. [UPDATE] Grado say: four conductors.

I just placed an order on the website and payed by credit card, and it's only just occurred to me that I didn't see a 'secure website' icon in my browser... is the website encrypted somehow or should I be worrying about my cc?

I know it's been done with the Grado SR series, but the GS-1000 has that extra-wide band, will the Beyer headband (from Dt880 etc) fit round it?

I'm getting a pair of Grado GS-1000s - again; I've owned them before (used with portable amps + iMod), absolutely loved them, but had to get rid of them because the open-ness was annoying the wife. I've currently got a Corda Opera and a Yamamoto HA-02 as headphone amps. Searching has yielded...

My budget is £100 ($200) at most, although I'm happy to go second-hand (but not happy to wait five months for chosen can to turn up second hand...). All-rounder ideally, main strength would have to be soundstage. My research to date suggest that there are no good closed headphones at that price...

Not something that closed cans tend to excel with, I know, but it's one of the most important things to me in a pair of headphones. I really love the GS1000 soundstage, but need something closed; any suggestions?

I need a pair of closed phones and I think I've decided on the w5000s. It looks like they'll have as much 'airiness' as I can get out of a closed can. But I need an amp for it and I'd rather not import from the US so I was wondering which would be the best bet. Budget is £200-£300. I've thought...

I got a new 950mah battery from eBay for Vinnie to put in my new 5.5g iMod. The seller had impeccable feedback, 100% on about 400 transactions. The battery, however, lasts 2.5 hours less than the stock battery on an iPod running identically. (the iMod doesn't use any additional power.) So: if...

I got my new iMod last week, and I've been burning the ALO cable in with it, swapping with my old iPod. When I bought my iMod I got Vinnie to install a new higher-capacity battery, 950mah. Now, max running time on my old iPod with stock battery has been about 10.5hrs, whereas my new iMod with...

I use my Rockbox on my iPod (+ amp via LOD) with ogg files, all replaygained. In Rockbox there's a pre-amp option with Replaygain; does having the pre-amp at -12db increase the iPods battery life? Obviously it will reduce the battery life of the amp as it has to do more amplifying, but my amp...

I'm going to get an 5g iMod in the near future I thought I would get Vinnie to fit an upgraded battery at the same time (I use Rockbox, and love it, but the battery life needs some work...) Now, the largest capacity battery I've seen so far is 950mAh from BatteryUpgrade.com. Does anyone know of...

I've ordered a Hornet from Ray. Just wondering if other UK Head-Fi RSA users can give me any info on how they received their amps? I've asked Ray how he sent it and whether there was a tracking number but haven't had a reply yet. Did it come in the normal mail or with a courier or what? And how...

I've got an iPod with all my music stored as ALAC. I would like to have all the files play at the same volume but the iPod 'sound check' feature is poor. There is this program called mp3gain that does something clever to normalize volume levels in mp3 and AAC (seen in this post) - does anyone...

Just thinking about RSA amps, I'd like to hear one with my K701s at some point. I've read a fair bit about both the Hornet M and SR71, and I think that I'd slightly prefer the sound of the Hornet - slightly warmer and punchier in bass, but wondering whether the SR71 - with twice the batteries -...

Has anyone taken the earpieces of the AKG k701s apart? The cable seems a bit... flimsy, and I wondered whether it would be worth recabling. Do the ear cushions just pull away? I'm reluctant to try without knowing it'll work...

Once again I find myself unsure as to which forum to put this in. But as the man makes amplifiers, I opted for here. Quite a trivial question I suppose, but I'd like to know... So, is it:Zin Chin Shin Zhin (somewhere between a soft J and Sh) something else?

I've tried searching for the answer to this but no success Can anyone tell me what the difference is between the original SuperMacro and the LE version? Is the LE version designed for low-impedance headphones, ie IEMs, or does it refer to a feature of the amp?

Does such a device exist? It would be cool if I could get something that would plug into my portable hard drive which could read the music files, then output to a (separate) DAC to amp then phones: The result would be a semi-portable set-up with high storage capacity and great sound

(Not really sure whether this should go here or in the amp forum, but I guess it'll be moved if I'm wrong...) Anyway, in an earlier thread about upgrade choices, I got a lot of positives for the K701s. However, it also seems that they need decent amplification to get to their best. I'm...