Intro: As many of us in the UK are all too aware, our options are pretty limited when it comes to custom IEMs designed, manufactured and sold in our own country.  There’s ACS and Minerva (if there’s any others I’m not aware), and from there it’s a case of dealing with shipping impressions...

Hola,   Getting a new DAC, the AES/EBU input seems to be the best one. Looking to go Mac Mini w/Amarra or something (maybe even just BitPerfect) > converter > DAC. The Off Ramp 4/5 are out of the question due to price, as is the AP/AP2 as if you're going to get that you might as well get the...

Thought this was interesting. Apple are globally rolling this out: http://www.apple.com/itunes/mastered-for-itunes/   From the PDF:       Apple trying to force some standards? No more clipping in popular music? Also I see they ask to be given the high quality masters...

  Until I move out and have space for speaker stands either side of a desk at a distance from the walls, I'm stuck with my nearfield desktop set up (which is solely for listening to music whilst vegetating at the computer at reasonable to almost unreasonable volume), being located in a...

Thought this might interest the people who have speakers for stereo and home theater setups. This is Emotiva's upcoming pre/pro which, as a pre-amp/processor, functions as DAC offering pure stereo, home theater processor doing all the usual lossless surround formats via lots of HDMI inputs...

Bet you don't see too many of these on here!   Me and two friends are making ourselves a pair of Pluto's each. We a) can't afford b) haven't got the room for the Orions, but maybe one day, in my case anyway, so we're going to sewer pipe it up in style and see how we fare with Siegfried's...

If you hadn't noticed, prices of mechanical hard drives have skyrocketed because of flooding in Thailand wrecking, and in some cases writing off entire production lines. It seems most HDDs or vital components for them are made there and the HDD industry has been crippled, badly. Prices are...

A few years ago I helped my mum pick her first pair of 'proper' IEMS, as she kept buying cheap Sony ones that kept falling apart and got fed up... which is where I reeled her into HeadFi land. Picked UM1s as they were just about in the price range she was willing to spend and comfort was v...

Just to let all you iPad/Phone/Pod owners know, if you didn't already.   iPad owners in particular can rejoice as they get the multi-tasking/app switching, folders and all that jazz other iOS device users have enjoyed for a while, about time!   Things to note so far:   Airplay is on...