Apologia For many years I was an avid reader of Stereophile and The Absolute Sound. But perhaps a decade ago I drifted away from most professional reviews preferring to poke about Audioasylum , soaking up the unbiased if sometimes pedestrian comments in the forums… And I listened to music...

Precious little has been said about this amplifier. It would appear to be a dream machine for versatility missing only a USB port. Digital inputs, internal DAC, Digital EQ and a headphone amp built to drive the ATH L3000s. It is not expensive if the elements are top notch....more than the...

Is it possible (and does anyone do) mods to a Toslink or coax in to convert it to a USB input? Anyone please help me on this? Thanks

I am looking to set up a second system...I already have a pair of ATH W2002s and a modded Sugden Headmaster, I have an iPod too. So I use a doc with a line out (Panorama cable) into the Sugden. I need to back up my main music server anyway (I'll use a usb external hard drive) and so I was...

I read some of the postings about i2S buss but am still looking for a brief explanation about its advantages over S/PDIF. I have located a good DAC that accepts i2S input but what is the output from the computer? Do you need some type of converter (I guess you must)? Thanks

I am looking for some informed opinions on what the highest level amplifier might be (before nonsensical overkill) when the source is an iPod mini runnig tunes ripped losslessly, using error correction, from commercial cds? I have about 250 gigs of tunes ripped - as I said: Apple...

Can the moth Si2A3 drive low inpdence headphones. I know that they recommended the HD 600 but in threads the then president of Moth said that it oculd drive anything from 2 ohms up....But then he was selling them. Tuberoller called this the best headphone amplifier hea had ever heard...but...

I was lucky enough to acquire a set of ATH W2002s and ws looking to match them with an amplifier. My friend Hirsch Davis has expressed to me that the Carlo modded Sugden is the best amplifier he has heard to drive the W2002s, though they are a headphone, he admits, for which he does not have...

Hello, I am writing because it would seem that you have some experience with the ATH W2002s as driven by a Dynahi amplifier and I am hoping you would be kind enough to share some of your opinions and experiences with me. I recently got a pair of W2002s and am looking to match them with an...

Some impressions - Particularly from the very experienced Eric343 - popped up about this amplifier at the Seattle meet, but I have seen virtually nothing else on the subject. Given Eric's enthusiasm for this amplifier - he called it the best SS amplifier he had ever heard - I'd sure like to...

After reading literally everything a search brought out on the Sensaphonics I am very interested in these to use as a compliment to my unamped iPod mini (All tracks ripped lossless from commercial CD's). The thing is that I have always seen these discussed in terms of other canal phones -...

Does anybody know where I can buy the silver (brushed aluminum) version of the Ray Samuels SR-71 portable amplifier. I say a picture of one at the iPod lounge somewhere and now I want one but do not know where to find it. Thanks to whomever can help me.

Ok, I know that this has been asked in various forms (I searched alot) but I can't even seen to narrow the field definitively. I am going to use and iPod Mini using Apple Lossless in iTunes - I want to use this device ---WITHOUT AN AMPLIFIER----! I suppose it would be cool if I could get...

Four weeks ago I bought a G5 tower from MacXperts with 1 gig RAM and 2 - 200GB Seagate Barracuda hard drives. The first day the system crashed four times and I brought it back the 20 miles to the store. They kept it for 2 days and returned it to me. I spent 60 hours loading 120 Gigs of...

Thought I would try one of these famous recording studio Master Clocks to reduce Jitter from a Mac G5 to a high end Burmester DAC. I am using Apple Lossless compression and iTunes as the player. Really a first class upgrade. Virtaully all parts of the sound improved. Bass extension and...

I am planning on using an M Audio Transit modded by Steve Nugent at Empirical Audio - the mods will include a superclock 2 and power supply - I will run USB2 into the Transit and (I am thinking) AES/EBU out into a Burmester DAC. I have been seeking advice on the computer set up to drive this...

So I am putting together a new computer exclusively to run iTunes and perform as a music server. I will run USB into a Steve Nugent modded Transit/with Superclock mod and from there S/PDIF via AES/EBU into a Burmester DAC. These are the specs I am considering...and then I have to find...

Just to be sure..if I run iTunes on a PC running Windows XP - Use NO soundcard (none integrated into the mother board either) - AND USE A FIREWIRE connection out - DO I BYPASS KMIXER????

I have been reading posts from a guy on AA who has a high end system. He runs his computer system from a Waveterminal U24 card via usb to a Genesis lens and onto a dCs Purcel. Now I had almost settled on a Digi PAD via TOSlink to a Genesis lens and into my Burmester. I want to use iTunes...

I am selling the upgraded Maestro and R-10s I just got due to the uncalculated occurences of near miss accidents involving my children. But I do not want to be without headphones. I had the W2002s with a Cary 300SEI / Western Electric 300Bs and while this sytem did not gel (in my opionion)...

I'd like to go Toslink into a very high end DAC. I am building a highend computer server and it looks like I should use the RME Digipad 96/8 as the best bit perfect digital out using iTunes lossless. Sooooo.... I have read that some people are using 1 gig or larger memories as a large buffer...

Just read the 6moons review of the MPX3 and wanted to offer my best regards and warm wishes to Mikhail for his hard work. Mikhail, your review was well earned and, from a very satisfied customer, - A LARGE CAP THANK YOU! General Info: I placed my order for a custom R-10 Maestro and was...

I have a Burmester 001 player that accepts digital inputs and I was thinking it would be very convenient (and fun) to create a laptop based system to output to its DAC. I currently have an iPod and love the iTunes interface for its ease of use for playlists, search etc.... I want a system...

Has anyone tried ICs made from Palladium or a Palladium alloy...RS Palladiums, or maybe Silversmith Palladium/Silver alloys, or maybe Aural Thrills??? Anyone with any experience with this metal I'd love to hear from you. Thanks

Sometimes when my wife is messing around in the next room it bothers me wearing the HD650s - it is generally masked but you know how it is. Anyway, given that the R-10s are closed is there more isolation from outside noises when using the R-10 compared to the open HD650s? If so is the amount of...