Quote: Originally Posted by 909 Second issue--I put the entire Beatles' Love CD on the Shuffle and in-between every songs that runs together there is pause or click, which interrupts the follow of the music. Is there any way to avoid or correct this in itunes or is my shuffle defective...

Quote: Originally Posted by liquidfireboy the idea is...I do visit HA and I understand what Febs and you are trying to say. what I'm trying to say is, a programmer's words might carry more weight. Either way, I don't really care if other people want to use Blade. I understand...

Low impedance phones tend to aggravate the noise inherent in an integrated headphone amplifier. This is why folks who use KSC-75s or PortaPros (headphones with a higher impedance) tend to have less of a problem with amplifier noise. Headphone amps usually sport a high input impedance which...

Quote: Originally Posted by liquidfireboy i think this thread needs explanation from a programmer of lossy codecs. An explanation was provided in my last post. Again, I strongly urge those who believe this to be a fair and objective codec test take their case to HydrogenAudio...

How audible is the "hiss" on the 2G with a pair of 60 ohm PortaPros or KSC-75s? I'm really happy with my 1G/PP combination, but the clip on the 2G would be great for running...

Depends on how you like to wear your player for running. A couple things to keep in mind... 1. If you like to pocket your player, it has to be thin and narrow. I can't underemphasize both those dimensions. 2. If you pocket your player, you'll want some way of clipping the headphone cable...

I'm fairly new to Head-Fi, having joined recently do add a bit of insight and technical info to a thread on oversampling. My home stomping ground is HydrogenAudio.org - a site devoted to the advancement and understanding of lossy codec performance (among other things) through objective...

Quote: Originally Posted by wyvernone Thanks to all who share their thoughts and inputs. I've learned that most DAPs now appear to use DACs with oversampling of at least 32x (the delta-sigma ones), with the exception of embedded DACs in side a multi-media processor chip.... All...

Quote: Originally Posted by wyvernone Your audiophile requirement is not the same as mine I guess. I'm not specifying any requirement. What I am suggesting, though, is that the line-out of a well-implemented DAP design using any decent silicon (ie. Portalplayer, Sigmatel or...

A couple points: 1. Regardless of whether a DAC uses a 1X, 2X, 4X, ... 64X oversampling architecture, the final output of a digital player is always continuous (perfectly smooth) with no discrete steps (staircase). This is the role of the analog lowpass reconstruction filter at the output of...