I applaud your review. You have clearly given these a deep listen and your source gear is top shelf. For my part I just can't wear earbuds. They fall right out. So I use iems (ER4S) or clipons. I love the Yuin G1A's which have light but accurate bass. So, thank you for your review. Where do you...

Far too late I'm afraid. Welcome to headfi most sorry for your present and future wallet.

I have owned the Etymotic er4's for years and never felt the need to upgrade. They are my reference standard for portable phones. The etys are everything you are looking for in accuracy and neutrality. I listen mainly to acoustic and classical and they are perfect. Save a couple hundred bucks...

Ipod classic 7G>Cambridge Audio dock>CA Dacmagic>Corda Headamp1>ER4S>Ottmar Leibert "Up Close". This is a binaural recording from Chesky Records. If you like Latin acoustic jazz I HIGHLY recommend it. The binaural stops being a distracting trick pony and simply brings you into the music. close...

Another thread where you can get some good amp information are the Cypher Labs AlgoRythm Solo threads.  The Fostex and the CLAS dacs have a similar sound (see Jude's initial review of the HPP1).  The folks with the CLAS do a bit of "amp rolling" and could report on the different flavors they are...

Ok. But we have now departed from my level of expertise. I bought the Fostex so I would not need to buy a portable amp. So I have no experience with other amps. Perhaps others can report on what they are plugging into with the Fostex.

And I am assuming your itunes is not compressing those files when you sync? I answered your question about which amp to choose (the one that sounds best for you). Others might chime in but we would need more information about what kind of music you like and what sound signature you are looking...

Well, i'm stumped by your response. You must have very peculiar ears because there is absolutely no difference between ipod sources for the hpp1. None. Some have had issues with iphones which are resolved after a reboot. You do understand that the ipod is simply a digital transport for the...

Well! You don't mess around with the cheap stuff. Straight to the top! Great kit tjcheong. Can't imagine those Beyers are too practical out on the street though, not much isolation.

I'm surprised by your post because those Shures are easy to drive at 32 Ohms. My Etymotic ER4P's sound great on the lowest gain setting. May I ask what you are experiencing? Also it doesn't matter which ipod you use because the Fostex is simply using it as a transport. All ipods would sound the...

Hp-p1 has a line out. You can use its internal amp, which is excellent in my humble opinion, or attach a separate amp.

Well I got carried away and off the topic of this thread. Ackerman plays guitar although there are some piano parts. Apologies. But don't let that stop you from sampling this amazing album. I love all the Windham Hill stuff.

William Ackerman, "Imaginery Roads" is the most emotional album I ever heard. It came out on the Windham Hill label. One word: pathos.

I have the ksc75's also and enjoy them for what they are. The grado's are great cans. What I have found is that the source really does matter. Lossless is the way to go, but I don't plug my Audio Technica W1000's into the headphone jack of my ipod. Why bother? They wouldn't sound much better...

Yea, does seem a bit vague doesn't it? But how would you measure it?

Headphone jack "applicable load impedance: 16 ohms or more." That is from the manual. Personally, I'd be terrified to crack my baby open to take a peek!

Ok, I'll bite. Got my W1000's almost ten years ago and was never tempted by upgrade-itis. I did recently upgrade my source to a Cambridge Audio dacmagic and id100 ipod dock and, my W's have blossomed! I'm discovering them all over again! With the original ipod and amp they were analytical. With...

Quote: Mkubota1, trust me.  If you like the 4-P with the Fostex definately get the S adapter.  You won't be disappointed.  

Quote: Now now, not so fast.  My review was for the Fostex paired with ER4-S not the P, or more specifically, the ER4-P with an S cable adapter.  Let's not get ahead of ourselves here.  So, this morning I did some pretty intensive A/B testing between the ER4-P with the Fostex and the...

Right.  I've got the Er4-P with an S adapter cable.  Before the Fostex I didn't use the S adapter much because the ipod headphone jack couldn't do it justice and using the S with the amp + Ipod through the line out, well, that just caused the Ety's to reveal the poverty of the Classic internal...

I received my HP-P1 from Moon Audio on Wednesday and am enjoying this greatly!  Two years ago I took the plunge and bought an Ipod Classic 160G.  I LOVED the capacity of this thing and loaded it with my entire collection of lossless CD’s.  And I have been dissatisfied ever since.  I have good...

I have over 250 cd's on my 160G ipod with over 50 G's to spare.  All lossless.  There's alot of room on the ipod classic.  That and a good portable amp or iem's without an amp is good.  That's what I've been doing but now I've just upgraded to the Fostex HP-P1 dac/amp.  Will be coming in a few...

I've got the Echo Indigo card and i think it should meet your needs. you could run a line to your aux input on your home receiver also. I love this soundcard, although for speaker listening I have a separate DAC for that.

Well, You've told us about your speaker system. Congratulations on Cambridge Soundworks. I'm a big fan of CSW. But what is your sound card? Are you running your speakers through a stock souncard? If so, this is where you need to begin, both to enhance your speaker setup and your headphone.

My collection is rather small. I have 189 files (cd's) at 53.1 GB with FLAC. And I'm a bit of a heretic. I use Winamp Pro to compress. I had used EAC but ran into too many issues with Vista. I notice NO difference.