I somehow managed to catch one of my trusty old Heir Tzar 90s on my oven handle and as I stood up gave the cable a good tug, snapping both the pins. Luckily it didn't land in the oven, which was on! After some careful tweezering the pins came out but the new replacement cable is too loose to...

In my search for large Comply TSX400 tips at a reasonable price I came across these Professor Beats Ear Sweets*.  After some hesitation the lower price and extra pair won over the dodgy name and garish colour and I bought a pack of large ones hoping they would fit, which they do.   They...

After all the below I fitted a replacement opamp and all measured well so I plugged in some KSC75 for the real test.  The left side was quieter but other than that all seemed well - I continued to listen while poking the connections expecting one to be loose (the RCAs were the worst I've ever...

Today I've unwrapped a pair of Koss Porta Pro Black Beauty which came from ebay which were sold as damaged packaging for the not stupidly cheap price of £22 (about $35)  I'm aware that ebay has a bad rep for Porta Pros so at the first opportunity I unpacked and examined them, then put them on...

I'm trying to work out the best way to organise music on the Tera Player.   I know how it works - it chooses a random number between 0 and 128 and if it finds an item it uses it, if not it does a binary shift, repeat as required.  This is done three times to choose an "artist" then an "album"...

I'm having a weird problem with a 128gb SDXC which I've formatted to FAT32 using the HP tool.  The problem is it's making a partition bigger than the card actually is - it claims to have 128.7gb free space when really it should be around 125 (allowing for the 1000/1024 thing)   I have resized...

I'm looking to record some vinyls and there are a couple of USB Audio interfaces which are widely recommended for the task that are in my budget (£100) if I buy used, but they all have way more features than I need.  I don't need multiple balanced inputs, phantom power, a phono preamp, DAC...

I often browse on a netbook with a 1024x600 screen and this has always been fine, but in the past couple of days (since the username dropdown feature was added in the top right) the forum pages all have a horizontal scrollbar.    While a bigger screen is common there are a lot of netbooks and...

I bought a pair of these on ebay for £8 + £5 P&P but when they arrived the volume controls in the cups are damaged - on asking the seller they haven't been used for years but were supposedly working when last tested.   I opened a cup to find more wires than I was expecting (see pic below, I...

EDIT:  I turned the light on - not only is there a notch (far smaller than the pic suggests) but the pins have tiny numbers next to them too.  No wonder no-one else had a problem       I guess it's just me but when I look at the pinout on the iBasso websiete (see below) it looks...

So I'm kinda split where to put this.  High end, full sized cans but I feel it's a more portable related question - if a mod objects please feel free to move it.   I am considering a pair of Edition 8s for my commute but am concerned about rubbing the leather headband against my styled hair...

What seems like forever ago (over two years) I built a CK²III and it worked perfectly first time. I used it for 6 months or so then didn't for 8 months and have been using it near daily since then. As time wears on I am increasingly noticing static first quietly then louder in one channel - it...

For my first DIY build I made a standard BOM CK²III - it worked perfectly first time. Since getting a pair of AH-D5000's it has once again become my main amp so I'd like to tweak it as I made two newbie mistakes and no doubt it can be made better with better parts. My searches could find no...

I'm going to recable my Denon's as the stock cable arrived twisted and hard (bought them used) but don't want the colourful look of twisted starquad pairs. I might yet steal the jena cable from my Grado's (dead driver ) but I think the copper will clash with the Dark Denon wood so Ideally I'm...

I plugged in my Grado's recently to find the left side is noticably quieter than the right and has a sound much like a hair on the driver (I'm sure every Grado owner knows this sound!) Turning up the volume turns the sound into more crackle than music. They have been hanging on the same stand...

I have $500 left from a trip to the US in the summer (unexpected free bar at a wedding ), but the exchange rate is so much worse now than then I will be loosing about 10% by changing it back, then have to pay paypal fees when I spend it in $ (probably in the FS section on here...) I was...

I have just stumbled across my first portable amp - a Total Bithead. I used this daily for about 6 months with my ipod, but barely used the DAC part (I did test it worked before stuffing it in a bag). Today the DAC only has sound out of the left channel but using the line in both channels...

Hi All This is my first post on my new netbook (need to write lots to see if the keyboard is usable ) I am considering making a USB cable to attach my DAC to it as it only needs to be about 6 inches long and no-one seems to sell them that short. I could use starquad, but was wondering...

I have just received a pair of AKG K340's, plugged them in to my CK²III and they sound great. The only "problem" I have is that while waiting for them to arrive I read that they need a powerful amp, stumbled on a cheap Heed Canamp on ebay and bought it (should arrive tomorrow!) it's...

I love this album, but track 1 "Pull Me Under" seems to be missing it's ending. It stops dead and the last ~2 seconds are silent on the CD I bought, and all copies I downloaded. It's so good I'd consider buying another copy if it has the ending (but I'd be really annoyed to get another dud...)...

This has probably been discussed before but I don't know what it's called to search so I'll ask again. Recently I have started listening to classical music and it is recorded/mastered quieter (as everything should be, but thats another rant!) so I've had to turn my amp up. There is a...

I removed the Comply tips from my X10's this morning to replace them with clean ones and was surprised when the gold part of one remained attached to the tip! They still work fine and don't come apart unless you try removing the tip so should I return them under warranty? Seems a bit...

I am looking to DIY an ADC, but searching this forum it confuses this with the far more popular DAC - there is one post where someone asked and was directed to a $400 ADC with a built in phono stage, but that is expensive and no fun I have found a couple of schematics online, but none had...

I am trying to wire up my room having redecorated, and am getting fed up with manually swapping cables. Basically I need a 4 input 3 output stereo (RCA) switchbox, but it would be great if 1 input could output to 1 output independantly of the others as well as being switchable to the other...

I am trying to register my X10's but can't find the serial - am I just being stupid? Can anyone give me some guidance where it is? Thanks