Quote:   Just a heads up: It doesn't work with all Android 4.1/4.2 phones, only phones which have been tweaked by the manufacturer or user to support it. My Galaxy Nexus, for example, doesn't have support on 4.1 or 4.2, and doesn't seem to be gaining support for it within its lifetime.

Quote: Yeah... I wouldn't use those headphones to mix or master anything, because you're just gonna get home and have to do even more editing. You can polish poo all you want, but you're still gonna end up with a pile of sh%!   If you want a pretty good travel setup, look into an...

If it's an onboard soundcard, it's not uncommon for the headphone jack to have light static and mechanical-electric sounds, as they aren't shielded from what goes on in the computer, and it's actually tied to the CPU, rather than being separate, like a sound card is. If you have a discrete sound...

Quote: P.S. Formatting your text pretty colors makes it difficult for me to distinguish my answers from your questions.

I think the RCA plugs in the back are RCA outs to a sub, not RCA inputs.   At least that's what I see when I look at the pictures on the web...   Edit: And yeah, Cankin's right, if your A5's do accept RCA in.

Are you using windows 7/vista? Or an earlier windows?

Is this a desktop or a laptop? I'm thinking it's EMI from your CPU getting into the sound signal as it's decoding your FLAC files, which would explain the extra snap crackle and pop while playing FLACs. Getting an external DAC would benefit you greatly, if that's the case.   I can vouch for...

I don't think anybody on this forum would ever recommend you beats, lol. Do you need closed back headphones? If you do, m50's fit the bill perfectly. They swivel 90 degrees, so they don't get in your way on your neck, have half decent isolation, and pretty good sound quality. It may be a little...

Dude... Edit button. Bottom left corner of your posts.

Look into Koss PortaPro's. They have a bit of a cult following on this forum, and are infinitely moddable to your liking. They can scale very well with a good amp, and beat pretty much everything, up to the sr60's, or maybe even the sr80's. Plus, they're on the lower end of your budget, and are...

Do it! They're an awesome set of cans!   Bit uncomfortable on the top of your head, though. Speaking of which, has anybody figured out a way to make those bumps softer? It's starting to get better, but it still starts to hurt after a while if I'm doing a long listening session.

My issue wasn't with the way it organized my music in terms of a folder structure or in the program itself. It was with the way it handled deleted files-I believe I accidentally checked something in the settings that allowed it to automatically delete actual files rather than just removing them...

I believe the program has ultimate control over sample rate conversions in a mac. Unless you open a program, then go and change the audio midi settings, the output will be whatever the audio file is recorded at. What I do is set the audio at the maximum (24/96 for me) in audio midi setup, open...

Don't buy it if they try to sell you on "high quality optical cables" or something. Light is light, and it's a digital signal. Unless you're running 50 feet of cable, any old optical cable will do.

Give it some time to burn in, and you may end up liking it. I may end up picking up one of the new m50's to see if they're any better than they were before.   I'm sure they'll be VERY bassy compared to my k701's, though lol.

Quote:   I've got the udac2 into the LD1+. It's certainly a warm setup, and you won't have any issues with basslessness (actually, you will, but only in the most dynamically compressed crap you get nowadays). I don't have much of a perspective on things, as I've only used the k701's...

Eric_C is right. If you plan on putting your entire collection on your itouch, mp3's or AAC at 320kbps or 256 (depending on your headphones/type of music/if you can hear the difference at all) is your best choice. If you're going to be putting the majority of your library on your computer and...

Let them burn in for a couple of hours (ideally, overnight for a night or two), and make sure your sansa doesn't have EQ on. The sansa's amp is slightly warm, so I don't see why you'd have disappointing bass from it.   What are you comparing the m50's to? Maybe you're just used to huge...

Quote: If you ever do end up getting the e9, let me know how it is. I've got the LD1+ powering my k701's too. I'd like to know how these two amps stack up with the k701's.

iGrados aren't even that expensive! Imagine what they'd say about a REALLY expensive setup...

Just rip straight into Itunes as Apple lossless, if you're sticking with Itunes. It's under CD Import settings, or something like that. It shouldn't be too complicated, IIRC, as there aren't any real settings you can fiddle around with in Itunes for ripping to ALAC.   When I used a mac, I...

Quote: Limewire: Yes, as those songs are usually 128 kbps tracks, even the ones that claim to be higher bitrates. The higher bitrate files are (lots of the time) 128 kbps files upsampled to higher rates in order to seem like they are higher quality. Don't bother. I've even downloaded 320...

Funnily enough, I've got the same exact problem, on the same exact ear. I was so excited to use my meelec's for working out, until I found that just walking, or talking, could push them out of my right ear. Cried several rivers that night. Sticking to marshmallows, I guess 

You'd think so, but the hole in the middle is actually quite small, and perfectly circular, rather than oval-shaped, like Senn pads are. That, combined with my genetically mutated ears means that i have to tuck the tops of my ears into the pads in order to fit the cans on my ears fully.   My...

Quote: Of course they are. Headphones like Skullcandy wouldn't exist if nobody cared about how headphones looked. The really bad ones are the people who wear bose's around their necks, saying, "yeah, I'm better than you. I can afford bose's."