Having the SA8001 for two years, I bought 105 the other day and really want to find out the differences of these two all-in-one CD players in speaker and headphone sound, since both have the jack at front.   While I put two identical CDs (both copes from the original) in the players and...

Can anyone recommend a good sounding CD, not in stereo, but in mono?   The reason for this is to test different cable setup in my speaker system, with single or bi-wire.  I assume I can have listen to two speakers at the same time, to judge what is the best setup.  Unfortunately my current...

I recently bought a Marantz SA8001 from a local head-fier and found that 8001 is fantastic.   Now I am looking to purchase my first blu-ray player and Oppo 83 looks pretty promising.   The truble is I am not sure if I should get the SE version which has improved audio playback, according...

I hope this is the correct forum where I can reach to K1000 owners, current or former.   Basically what I need is the replcement pads, or sometimes refered as "temple" pad here by some Head-Fiers.   There are two pads (right-front and left-rear) come off the housing.   The base of...

Just curious. I am going to visit LuoYang in China next week. Do we have someone here knows where to find a good audio store which might carry some China products such as the Little Dot?

Many years ago, according to a radio interview to one of the main composers in the so called Minimalist, they memtioned the discovery of human voice (female?) by repeating the instruments play. I do not recall what were the instruments used. Does anyone know this story and who was that...

First we have $50 of Sansa Clip 8gb at Walmart, now we have Conn's selling 4Gb Fuze for $20. Unfortunately Conn's is not nationwide store. But if you are interested and have Conn's nearby, this is a good deal. They start the sell today so move quick when the stock is still there.

I bought this graphite CD mat (US $50) during a trip to Taiwan after the store owner played one female vocal CD track with and without this mat. There seems a bit improvement and I figured this mat will not hurt anyway. However, from my set up at home, via headphone or speakers, I have a hard...

I am going to visit Taipei in a few weeks and just wondering if anyone there knows of any good audio store where I can listen to various headphone gears (phone, Amp, DAC...). I know sometimes store overseas can carry audio equipements that are not available in US.

I have tried for a long time to find a way to post a new thread. I thought I could do that through the "New Posts" at center top of the page as the way I alway did prior to the outage. But apparently the new way is different in that you have to go through the "Forum Links" first and select the...

I would like to know how to eliminate this annoying sound. I have my headphone connected to my computer and without even playing anything, I constanly hear these clicking sound like I am clicking the mouse every 20 to 30 seconds. I do hear some of my actual mouse clicking through the...

I purchased this Beyerdynamic DT880-250-05 (07?) three week ago. I have played/burn-in for probably 60 hours now but still have some trouble with the sound. The most troubling part is the vocal that has ss.. or sh.. sound. For example, to play the first 30 seconds of "The Boxer" by Simon &...

I was reading a "how to listen objectively" thread and thought I might ask a question here. Can anyone suggest a "test CD" for testing the audio equipements such as headphone or speakers. I know everyone can burn a CD with his favorite songs for testing, but would it be better if the CD has...