Hi guys, new poster to this site so usual caveats apply (please bear with me if I use incorrect terminology or ask stupid questions). I've recently gone a bit audiophile crazy with purchases of the Calyx M (love it, subject to teething troubles below), AKG k3003s (ditto) and some FAD PF VIIIs and Xs, which I presume are fakes due to the ludicrously low (relative) price, but sound good (in the mids anyway) and look very nice anyway. Plus custom tip for my old Sennheiser IE80s, which are my 'everyday' pair. Anyway, a couple of thoughts/questions re the Calyx:
1. Anyone heard more news on when the fix for the pairing probs with the k3003s will be distributed? It's so frustrating not to be able to use these to get the best sound available to me.
2. Should a file transfer program open when I connect the Calyx to my PC? When I connect I first get the 'not recognized' message, then I press File Transfer mode and the Calyx M appears in my devices on my PC (and I can copy files to the Calyx memory) but no specific program opens which helps with file transfer. Is this everyone's experience (i.e. you just have to copy files from their saved location on PC - e.g. iTunes Media Files - and paste them into the Calyx's memory?). I think I may be missing some utility here.
3. What is the best way to get album art from files saved using iTunes onto the Calyx along with the audio? Most of my iTunes library is saved as AAC files. I think Calyx says it supports AAC but if I try to cut and paste AAC files onto the Calyx it doesn't accept them. So I convert the AAC files to AIFF (though unhelpfully this gives suffix .aif rather than .aiff to the files, which means I can't use free converters to convert to FLAC as they only seem to recognise the .aiff suffix as AIFF files), but album art doesn't seem to follow with AIFF files? Also, with AAC files converted to AIFF files, the Calyx also doesn't seem to recognise the album artist, and just gives the artist + album title as the album title, and the artist as 'unknown'. If I convert from .aif to FLAC (I've found converters which do this, but not for free) then should the album art follow? Presumably, if I just copy a JPEG of the album art into the Calyx's memory, that won't work? I know it's all about the audio, but I am a bit of an 'album art tart'.
4. I have the Dignis case, and I recommend it, really good quality.
OK, that's it for now, thanks for help and sorry for the long post.