There is some chatter comparing these two but it is scattered on here. I've done a LOT of supplemental reading and have narrowed these two dac/amps as the best < $150. USB is necessary, although I do have a TOSlink out....   ** not looking to get a separate headphone amp, so the...

It was just the filter! After searching here I thought I had a bad cable. Randomly today I decided to look at the filters. Nothing looked wrong but I took off the 'covering' green and white thin plastic disk and noticed the sound instantly was 10x louder from the side I thought was 'broken'...

This has been asked and partially answered in slightly different froms but I haven't gotten a concrete answer on it. I'm considering the following soundcards: Revo 7.1 Revo 5.1 Chaintech EMU 0404 I have a set of klipsch 2.1 and a pair of 7506's so decent output, not amazing. What I...

I've found a couple of quality 3.5mm plugs from neutrik, canare etc but I can't seem to find a quality stereo inline jack to match. Does anyone know a good source of these? I've done a good amount of searching on the web and in these forums but I can't come up with anything. I called a local...

Is it possible for your headphones to electrically shock you? I was listening to my headphones (sony 7506s) through the headphone port on my admittidly cheap desktop speakers. The speakers have been known to have 'pops' caused by electrical interference I guess, probably due to the low...

http://www.m-audio.com/sdk/index.php Saw this posted on the [H] the other day, I don't know what can be done with it but I figured someone here would be interested in it.