Technically Model Ms aren't mechanical switches but buckling spring, tend to be pretty loud.

I'd love a DAC-only option as well, but I'd want a switch between the different inputs (as in, a clicky knob thing) instead of buttons. My biggest pet peeve with the Zero is a usability one, it's annoying having to switch to Coaxial everytime I turn on the unit.

Quote: Originally Posted by les_garten That is the setup I have currently. Very nice and liquid/smooth sounding. Earth HDAM, LT1364, Alps pot. I posted the link to the pot a few post ago. Audi-gd.com for the Earth HDAM, get the dual Opamp HDAM with 200mm extention wires. Do the...

Quote: Originally Posted by john5220 A friend of mine actually mentioned these actual words to me recently. Its about time I had actually changed my attitude to aswell as I have notice lately a lot of folks get offended by my posts on a couple forums. I shall analyze my post...

Also, leading a boring life is a good countermeasure against invasion of privacy.

Quote: Originally Posted by les_garten You will most likely like the 80 ohm pro's better. Also, the Head amp in the Zero is pretty good, don't sell it short! The Zero in itself is a great unit for the price, but I'm of the persuasion that its builtin headphone amp section just...

Quote: Originally Posted by shampoosuicide I'm picking up a DV332 tomorrow, and will be running it out of my Zero. I have a few questions: 1) How do I connect the two? 2) Do I turn on the preamp function on my Zero? 3) At what hour should I set the volume pot on my Zero at? 4)...

The "nova check" is Burberry's distinct checkered pattern. Google image it, I'm sure you've seen it before. All their glasses come with an eyeglasses case, except it's patterned with the nova check. :P

Burberry for eyeglasses (not sunglasses). They come with a nova check case yo!

Oh wow, those look really neat. I was thinking of getting one of those cheap-o monitor risers and sticking amps underneath and headphones above, but that is definitely an alternative. A lot more expensive, but they look nice. Thanks for the pointer!

The title pretty much says it. I'm looking for a small 2 or 3 level rack that can be just be put on my desk to house a single piece of equipment (a full-sized DAC or amp) per level. I'm not a DIY guy or even know my way around a drill or a saw, so making my own is out of question. I don't really...

Here at UCLA I just smelled smoke, though on the highway yesterday I saw some hills on fire.

Never heard of grad students being called "grad schoolers".

I rather like the Fujitsu ultraportables as well. I bought one of their Japanese models a year and a half ago -- the LOOX T70W (which I think is the counterpart to the LifeBook P7 series?), and I've been quite happy with it as far as an ultraportable goes. It has a disc drive builtin, and is...

All that comes to the top of my head are the Nintendo DSi if you like keeping on top of Nintendo's revisions of their handhelds, and that headphone art book (Shin Moeru Headphone Dokuhon), if you're into that moe aesthetic (probably not, given that you're married :P). I think the DSi is released...

Quote: Originally Posted by Hunted Charlie I saw a pair of Grado SR-125 headphones on the head of somebody in my high school library today! I ran up to the guy to take a picture and talk to him, and he stared at me. Figuring he must be a Head-Fi member, I said something along the lines...

Quote: Originally Posted by edstrelow Such a sentence may be within the rules of grammar but it is not within the rules of psychology, i.e. it is just hard to follow. Actually, I am often impressed by how literate many headfiers are and how well they express themselves in print...

Quote: Originally Posted by BigTony One problem i see is that i rarely use a pc to browse forums, so all my posts are do using virtual keyboards with preddictive text, and the number of times it changes my words is most annoying. And i can assure you editing using a stylus and touch...

Allow me to quote Chaucer here about language change that sums up nicely why it's silly to be a grammar-nazi: "Ye knowe ek that in forme of speche is chaunge Withinne a thousand yere, and wordes tho That hadden pris, now wonder nyce and straunge Us thinketh hem, and yit they spake hem so."

I want the make sure that tone and volume controls do not apply when using the digital out on the card. I ask because I was having trouble with drivers for it on 64-bit Vista, and I tried 2 different versions. In the newer version, tone and volume controls do apply even when using the digital...

Quote: Originally Posted by glitch39 If you are using asio, you'd need to play around with the timing setting . I had mine initially down to 25ms and it would be ok on some songs, crackling on others and on a few occasions, foobar would throw an error. when I upped it to 100ms+, all...

Quote: Originally Posted by ScottieB I've heard people complain about this problem with built-in cards in the past - was one (of several) reasons I bought a discrete sound card. It may (unfortunately) be the digital out of the card. If you've never used the sound card before, what have...

Quote: Originally Posted by DaMnEd Are you using optical? 192KHz is only possible with coax, not optical, and you really won't have any benefit to upscaling imho, just keep it at 44hz or whatever the source material is, bit-perfect. I've had crackling once or twice, and it was...

New problem(?) with my unit. Sometimes when I play a song, there would be crackling throughout the song, which corrects itself if I restart the song. The only digital out (of the correct size, I have no adapters) I have on my computer is the onboard sound card which I have not used before, at...

Peete, In the mean time, is there any downside to just letting the coax shield ground the thing? My chassis looks different than the one in the pictures I've seen -- there are vent son both the bottom and the top, and they're situated on top of the headphone amp pcb. I wonder if the...