Hello everybody, Been a while since the last time I've been here. I am a long time audiophile and I had a lot of gear in the past, but after selling a lot of stuff I left with a modest setup: Schiit Modi/ Magni stack (v2 uber) which is my main setup, Headroom Ultra micro amp (Which I barely use...

Hello guys, I once knew an amazing one man project that did highly technical and melodic prog metal. I forgot his name and need your kind help in finding it. The only thing I remember is that the project's name was the man's own name. I think his first and last name. The genre is...

Hello guys, Sorry for didn't know how to formulate the question better, I am not an english speaker. My problem is: I leave my Schiit modi plugged in to the back usb port of my pc all the time, but every once in a while after turning on modi my screen goes black for 1 second. Do you have any...

Where I live,there are power failures relatively often. I just wondered if this is something I should worry about regarding the health of the dac/amp.  Is UPS a worthy investment?

I have a few monthes old SR325e. Suddenly in the last month or so, they becamse too warm and bassy and all the beautiful highs and mids are gone.   My rig is fine,there is nothing wrong with it..listening with the HD800's their sound just right. Any ideas what happened?    could it be related...

Hi all, I have just bought a few used second hand cds,they pretty much seem in readable condition e.g not too big and ugly scratches.   Now ripping with EAC I get read and sync errors and the error correction red dots are blinking. I can generally undestand that EAC is trying to correct the...

I usually keep the built in realtek as the default audio device in windows and stream to the dac through wasapi as a non default device. this way I have headphones connected to the laptop headphone out for movies watching and my music rig is seperated. so I can actually stream both to the built...

I just got a new uber stack which I really love..really sounds great. but I experience pop noises everytime I start a new file in foobar,and after a few seconds the music plays smoothly again..the noises disappear. The wyrd doesn't help either,and I tried using another usb port with no sucess...

I really love the neutral sound of the Etymotics, I found their sound signature perfect for me.. but I prefer to use Full size headphones in general.   What headphone have the closest (the same is probably not possible) sound signature to the etymotics?   

I hope this is the right forum for this question. I am interested to know the benefit of multi driver IEM's,my first logic assumption is more seperation..helps with dynamics.  But that's all I can think about at this moment. I don't want to get too technical,just the basic idea. It is known...

Hi all, Is there a difference between these two approches?    I heard about plugins that do upsampling / resampling ,and also dacs can do it. What plugin do you recommend using with foobar for this purpose?  I would like to upsample my CD 44.1Khz music to 96 or 192 just to experiment and for...

Hi all. Just got a new Dragonfly, and I am using it with foobar and wasapi.   but something strange, It seems that the Dragonfly doesn't accept 16 bit , only 24 bit. First ,In the windows 7 configuration window , in the shared mode default format it only give 3 options:  24/44 , 24/48, 24/96...

Hello fellow head fiers, Good to come back ! it's been a long time since the last time Ive been here, took a few years break from HI-FI.  My story in short: didn't have the time and money(was needed for other stuff) so I sold almost all the gear I had (Denon AHD-5000,Grado RS1,senn HD650...

Hi.  just wanted to ask if i can use this baby as a standalone dac.  in other words,does it have a line out so i can take the sound out of the dac and use my ultra micro amp ?   thx!

In short,this is the story:   Right now i have a broken marantz cd player (cd5001) which can no longer read cd's  and a headroom headphone amp (micro amp).   since the marantz transport section is no longer functioning,i thought maybe there is a way that i can use its dac only and feed my...

Hi.  I loaded an external sd card with music in my samsung galaxy s2 smartphone (android).  now,everything is fine except a little issue with the folder browsing.    when i'm in "music" mode and set it to view the folders  i can see only the sub folders,that means that if i have an album with...

Hi all.  i know this is probably a ridiculous question.    I have all my music arranged in folders , which every folder represents an album.  i want to play all the music in shuffle mode in foobar.  what is the best practical way of doing it?  thx  :)

just interested to know if using DVD player as a source to a headphone amp for playing music cd's is a good idea.  how is the dac quality of the rather cheap dvd players? and also,i heard that for dvd movies usually the recommended sample rate is 48 and not the standart redbook 41, and i want to...

Hi.  first i would like to say that the new pink floyd rematered albums sound AMAZING!  just like the beatles remasters.      anyway..the wall is really amazing cretion,almost perfect...why almost?  because IMO the song "empty spaces" should have been the full version that appears in the movie...

Hi dear head fiers. haven't been here for some time.  my most loved piano concerto ever,one which i highly praise since i was a little boy is the chopin no 1.  another great piano concertos i love is the tchaikovsky no 1.  and schulman no 1  grieg no 1 is also great and rachmaninov no 3.   i...

Hi.  i am always on the look for improving my portable listening experience.  for now it seems that iem's is the best choice for high quality audiophile on the go. this made me think about wireless bluetooth headphones. how is the sound quality?  do some of you use this kind of headphones...

when encoding wav to mp3,information is being removed from the file and as a result the file size is greatly reduced.   and like the saying goes...you can't recover that information.   so far so good.  but what happens when i try to convert the mp3 back to wav??  does the file size return to...

Hi,,like the title says i simply LOOOOVE my HF5, i think they are very high quality iems,taking my full sized headphones as a reference (RS1,DENON AHD5000,ATH-M50) they are on the same level,or very close. anyway,i am looking to get the shure SE425 also.  the HF5 bass is wonderfull,right on...

Hi.  I recentely started to use digidesign Mbox mini sound card with my computer. this card is mainly for use with protools software for mixing and recording music,but i also want to use it for music listening purposes.  now, in the output settings in foobar i chose DS.  I directed all windows...

I want to talk about the cowon earbuds that come stock with their relatively new players. I just bought a new J3 a few days ago and i am totally amazed and impressed by how these earbuds sound..especially with the maestro sound preset.  by the way..I also got a new pair of yuin PK2 earbuds...