For around $60 the Creative X-Fi 5.1 surround USB exterior card is the best Dac/Headphone amplifier for notebooks money can buy. I use it with my Yuin PK1 headphones. I have compared it with my E-MU 1616M. Yes the 1616m has nearly 120db compared with the X-Fi 100db sound to noise ratio. It...

If you are using ¼ inch headphone amp and are using the Denon enclosed 1/8” to ¼” adapter you are not getting the full benefit of these headphones. All adopters including the screw on type significantly distort, smear or if you will soften the sound. That is because your signal is going through...

I finished upgrading the Denon D5000. To obtain full resolution left click once the picture at the link site: http://www.panoramio.com/photos/original/2606369.jpg Note that I view the Denon D50000 as forward relatively 2 dimensional with bass and lower mid-bass heaviness. To offset these...

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