Yes, I tried searching here and I know GIYF but I am coming up with no actual recommendations or reviews for a commercial shop or for-money modder I can send a bunch of iMods and iPods to (about a half-dozen) to get the hard disks repaired/replaced.  Is Tarkan's flash product still the way to...

Kerry and I were discussing tonight the inventor of headphones -- Nathaniel Baldwin.   We thought you would find his bio amusing:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Baldwin   Our friends at beyer (the real inventors of headphones as we know them) first introduced Head-Fi to...

The Jersey Boys are at it again.  This year we booked both halves of the ballroom for the whole darn day -- no more table shifting.  One HUGE space with plenty of tables, chairs, and power outlets.   The famous Miami Mike's bar is right there, along with the bathrooms, an outdoor place to...

I've never heard anything like this, and search turns up nada. I just decided to add all my ripped tracks at 16/44.1 to my fb2k v1 server, adding them to the 24/96 FLACs I have downloaded from hi-res services on the net. Ouch! Whenever a playlist goes from a 44.1 to a 96 track (or the...

This is insane -- Stereophile in their Buyer's Guide for 2010 state that their intention is to list everything! Here is an exact quote: "You'll find listed every audio component currently available in the US ... We have headphones (p.140) ..." But the listing omits both AKG and...

MD1032 (John -- co-organzier of the annual big NJ meet), along with Vcoheda (Dave -- meet regular) and Kerry (Kerry -- DIY'er of note) gathered at my house Saturday to pit dynamic phones against 'stats. It was one of the very few BLD meets -- that's Breakfast (Bagels and cream cheese), Lunch...

OMG I am blown away! Anyone else discover this? "SMART" allows the creator of a multi-channel (like 5.1) mix on a DVD-A to specify how to optimally make a 2-channel stereo extraction. DVD-A Explorer says this is done to save space, i.e., when there is not enought room on the disc for an...

Here are the details of what I previously reported (with thanks to members jeremyrp and strid3r, plus Yuri at PS3SACD.com, who started this whole thing). I had been ripping SACDs at 88.2, getting an LPCM bitstream on S/PDIF coax from my Wadia CDP (an AudioPraise Vanity board would be another...

This is twilight zone stuff -- I need help. Please! The topic is S/PDIF. Connecting a Wadia iTransport to a Wadia DAC works perfectly. Connecting it to a Benchmark DAC-1 works perfectly. This is all with decent quality digital coax cables. Now I want to run both DACs at the same time. I...

I need to help a friend in the next few hours. This is not an area in which I have any first-hand specific listening auditions under my belt. Any and all advice would be very welcome. Compare and contrast, please (and feel free to offer other ideas), the following for long (very long)...

In other threads we have been discussing SACD playback from older PS3's, and wondering if we could capture downsampled-from-DSD LPCM at 176.4 by splitting off S/PDIF audio from the HDMI port. Yuri, the authority on SACD and PS3 over at ps3sacd.com (we have been emailing each other) thinks...

For my 1000th post, I wanted to thank Jude, a bunch of specific members (too many to name, but you know who you are), and all Head-Fi'ers out there for creating this wonderful on-line and in-person community -- of which I am proud and honored to be a member. What an 18-month ride! Life...

Yea, I used Search, but found no up-to-date answers. I need to replace my Cowon. Can you help? Criteria: 1. Has line out (analog, for input to portable amp that does not have a DAC), either built-in or there exists a third-party connector/cable that provides line-out (or a mod is available)...

All my computer audio experience has been with playback. Now I need to record, and could use some help. I tried "Search", but did not come up with answers to my questions. I hope I am not repeating well-discussed issues. I have an A/D converter in my integrated amp, and it will output 24/96...

Well I thought I was on head-fi ... but no! Pinch me, I was reading the new Stereophile glossy magazine that graced my mailbox yesterday. The Sam Tellig column was devoted to our little hobby, covering the X-CAN v.8, the K701, and the RSA Predator. Right up in the front of the book! Lovely...

With terrific support from beyerdynamic in both the U.S. and Germany, we obtained a Headzone Home unit with headtracking to test at the NJ Head-Fi meet. (Held July 26, 2008). Our interest in this stemmed from the mind-blowing demos given by Smyth at CanJam 08, of their SVS product -- a system...

As you all know, Sharper Image is closing all stores and selling the fixtures. I found for $10 a very nice, simply HP stand of black plastic. Nothing fancy, but perfect shape -- they used it in the store to push their Bose-a-likes. They also had plaster heads -- same use -- but they were...

August 2008 issue just hit my mailbox. Long article by Keith Howard about the "science of measuring headphones". Mostly about artificial ears and the correct way to measure freq response. The actual HPs tested were not that interesting. In fact the overall article was not that gripping, which...

Just saw this: RareWares

The 2008 edition of the Ultrasone 750 says PRO not PROLine on the headband, and the headband plus the earpads are supposed to be new. Anyone try one yet? How is the headband tightness (clamping pressure)? Ultrasones are pretty tight in general (although I am told the headband can be bent a...