Hi I have an old Laptop with USB 1.1 and want a USB soundcard that will run under Linux (probably Ubuntu). In the main I will be using this card with my Windows XP work laptop for listening to music on or training materials on headphones but occasionally will want to use it with my older...

Hi Has anyone tried the PMX200s yet ? I am looking for some small closed back phones for travelling with my iPod and am kinda unsure which to get. Regards Pat

Hi I have a PC with an origional Soundblaster Audigy in it. I was thinking adding an E-MU 0404 for music playback and leaveing the Audigy in for games. Would it be possible to setup XP so that Cubase and a CD /MP3 player app run through the 0404 and everything else runs through the Audigy. I...

So I finally got an iPod and have just bought a nice 250G hard drive and am about to start ripping my entire CD collection. I don't want to do this again in the near future so I want to get it right. I am using EAC to RIP to WAV and then RazorLame to convert to MP3. I plan on using alt-preset...

Has anyone listened to these yet: http://monteverdiproductions.co.uk/ It's John Eliot Gardiner's complete sacred cantata cycle with the Montiverdi Choir. They have released three issues so far of two CDs each and plan to release 52 CDs in total, one for each Sunday of the year. Its a not...

Hi There was a series on BBC2 (I think) to celibrate 250 years since Bach's death. They had a famous pianist play one of the Goldberg variations in a famous building and also give a short talk about the piece. Each program a different pianist and a different building somewhere in Europe...

Hi Has anyone heard the Sony SCDXE680 SACD player ? They are going for £99 here in the UK (were £400 orgionally). I was considering buying one rather than an old Marantz CD73 or similar form Ebay. What do people think ? Thanks Pat

Hi I just got back from a short brake in Prague with my wife and some friends. Whilst their I decided to buy a few CDs and chose them by the fact that they were all connected to Prague or the Czech Republic in some way. Has anyone else tried buying music purley on the basis of their location...

Hi I picked up a CD from the bargain bin this weekend on spec and it turned out to be a real gem. Its a remastered "D & B Together" by Delaney and Bonnie. I didn't really know much about them, I had an LP version of one of Delaney's solo albums but haven't listned to it for years. This is a...

Hi EMI have launched a new series called "Great Artists Of The Century" basically its mid priced re-releases of some of their stuff. They are putting out a promo double CD containg a track from every one of the first 25 titles to be released. I picked one up in Virgin this week for £2.99 (or...

Is it just my Amazon reomendations that are weird ? The only music I buy from them is classical, I get all my Rock/Pop on the spur of the moment in high street outlets or supermarkets. So when I log in Amazon says "we have recommendations for you" and the list goes like this: Bach Bach...

Hi I'm sure this must have been discussed before but I can't seem to find a search term that pulls anything up. Does anyone have some pointers to methods of adding legends to a case, volume, line in, headphone that kind of thing. I was wondering if there is any kind of label you can print in...

Just a heads up for those that remember Gong or those who would perhaps like to sample some Australian/French, progressive rock/ hippy trippy weird stuff/avant guard jazz. If you are in the UK HMV are currently reducing the Gong "Other Side Of the Sky" 2CD set to £4.99. Gives you tracks from...

Hi I just picked up a nice little book on choosing and using multimeters. Might not be interesting for old hands but could be good for newbies (like me). Its interesting anyway, it explains the difference between analogue and digital meters - yes I know one has a pointy thing that moves in an...

I guess everyone is familiar with the soundtrack of the film thing, no major film release seems complete these days without an acompanying CD of the music from the film (or sometimes music just tenuously associated with it). Well this weekend I found a CD soundtrack for a book ! Its Vikram...

I wonder if the gentle sages of this forum could assist, In the grab bag of pot luck LPs I have recently picked up to futher my new obsession was a a copy of: "Death and Transfiguration" and "Four Last Songs" Richard Strauss Gundula Janowitz and the Berliner Philharmoniker Herbert Von...

Now I know a lot of people dont like LPs because they scratch easily and pop and crakle but they have one major advantage over CDs, they are dirt cheap. I have just pulled my turntable out of the attic intending to burn some LPs to CD but got caught up playing with it again. Next thing I know...

Hi After not buying any vinyl for about eight years I am looking to get back into it. I have got my old turntable out of the attic and have been playing some of my old LPs. I have aslo started buying vinyl from charity shops etc. Today I picked up a stack of eight classical music LPs (for...

Just got the last Johnny Cash CD and its amazing. His cover of the Beatles' "In My Life" is possibly one of the saddest and most beautiful things I have listened to in years, the emotion in his wrecked voice moves the song on to another level. As a contrast I picked up Folsom Prison Blues on...

Hi I may be teaching my grandmother to suck eggs but since this caused me several hours of fustration I am posting it here so that it turns up on a search if anyone else gets the problem. Sonicstage 1.5 has a CDDB feature and when you try and use it for the first time it pops up a little...

Hi Since getting a pair of HD600s a few days ago I have been re-listening to a lot of my CDs. Interestingly the headphones have changed my opinion of some of the CDs quite markedly. They all sound a damm site better than they did before but more significantly some that I didn't really like...

Hi I pulled one of the cables out of my HD600s and the end is not keyed. Does it matter which way around it goes in ? I was thinking that on speakers you have to make sure you dont mess up the + and - connections or you drive them backwards and can damage them, what about headphones ...

Hi Has anyone ever seen/heard a D-40T Discman ? I saw one in a second hand shop and wondered if its any good. It looks like an old school Sony PDCP with an inbuilt FM tuner. Thanks Pat

Hi I have a CD that seems to have the reverse of the copy protection problem. It plays fine on CDROM players in computers but if I put it in my HiFi CD player or PCDP then I just get a nasty noise as the CD plyer tries to track and it wont play at all. Has anyone else seen this kind of thing...

Hi I went a bit mad today, I was walking past a hifi shop that was having a sale and it kind of sucked me in. Ended up coming out with two pairs of headphones, Senhnheiser MX400s for on the train etc and gulp ..... a pair of HD600s to replace my aging Beyerdynamic DT 311s as my main phones...