All -   There's a spirited conversation on the following over on AK, and the more I participated in the subject the less I knew.   Since a lot of folks here have dealt extensively with iPods, I'm hoping someone can help.   It's been widely reported that a handful of devices -...

This is far from audiophile stuff, but I'm using the analog out from my laptop to a cMoy to my K420s to listen to radio online. (I know the cMoy really isn't needed, but it just sounds *better* with it in the chain, I think.)   The sound: reasonable. The music: fun. I started with last f.m...

From what I've read here, most serious HP listeners use either cds or files as their source material.   I'm wondering if anyone adds radio - either broadcast, satellite or online - to the mix. I don't mean 'on the go' casual listening, I mean sitting down with a nice tuner or Squeezebox or...

As a newcomer to serious headphone listening, I find that judging bass is the hardest part of evaluating 'phones.   I can certainly hear differences from HP to HP, but without the cue of very low frequencies and the 'feel' they impart (headphones are, after all, literally 'all in the head')...

All - Lost my desktop in a hardware crash. I had everything saved *except* an excellent picture of a Little Dot mk III amp, shot from an angle, in semi-darkness, with the tubes lit up. It's a favorite shot of mine and I think I got it from either here or Audo Karma. If anyone knows what...

All -   Bought an iBasso d10 here and am delighted under XP, with Foobar.   That said, my workaday OS at home is Ubuntu 10.04 and the iB was not automatically recognized when I plugged it in this morning.   Anyone know what I can do to get everyone talking to each other?   tks...

I know some HPs don't *need* amping, but can adding an amp hurt the sound output, other than in a "never have more in your chain than you need" kind of way?   I ask because the last couple of nights have mostly been a Clip+ and AD700s, directly in. Last night I decided to add a small...

Ok, serious question.   As I spend more time with phones, I'm struggling with how to set things up.   This weekend I dug out an Oppo (I wanted to listen to cds) set up my HP amp and phones at the kitchen table and listened away while reading the forums on my laptop.   However, I...

I posted the question over at CA a while back, without much luck.   I (think I) understand the issue of kmixer in Windows XP, and why you don't want it in play.   Does Rhythmbox - operating in Ubuntu or, I suppose, any other Linux flavor - pass music files without downsampling? In other...