I have recently picked up the SMSL M200 and have been very impressed. I am surprised to never read any mention of it here so I thought I would see if others have tried or have this DAC. I am quite pleased with it. Great features and as in my view a properly implemented DAC should not change the...

Actually, it isn't basic, but the level of understanding I need is basic. So years back when I was getting ready to begin using speaker tap cables to directly drive headphones from the speaker terminals of my amp someone, maybe StanD looked at my scenario and helped. One of the points that I...

Beyond sad. Been following this band since the 1980s. Damn, brain cancer.

I'll admit it, I have been watching my post count climb toward 11000 for a while now. I hope it doesn't seem like a vanity thing to notice, I just find it personally meaningful. So because of that I decided to tell a little story about some rather old and rather new audio gear suddenly put...

Thanks for looking and hopefully helping. I have Android 7 on my LG G6, waiting for 8, and I have turned on developer options. I have seen somewhere, that for Bluetooth anyway you can tell Android to use 44.1 rather than the default internal 48kHz. The problem is I can't seem to find where to do...

This is my 10,000 post here on head-fi. As I saw that number approaching I couldn't help but feel a personal significance with the arrival of that milestone post so I wanted to mark the occasion with a post about this wonderful community. I have had the pleasure to post here as a member for more...

Nothing to do with headphones at all, but just a dire warning to cat lovers out there. Just two nights ago now we had to put our year and a half old cat Millie down. She was the sweetest cat, I can't even begin to describe her. She was suffering from acute kidney failure after eating just a tiny...

Just trying to see from those who own the Nightowl, or who have had some decent time hearing them what they think of it. Reviews are generally quite positive, but I'm curious to hear from some head-fi members what they think.

After a Windows update about 4 days ago no matter what software I use, my Mojo causes an instant bluescreen crash Thread Exception Unhandled error every time once a song plays. It has to be the driver. Is anybody else experiencing this? I know it is the Mojo because my NAD M51 works like a charm...

After a few calls and quite a bit of time on hold at Onkyo USA and Gibson Innovations I was informed by the agent that starting in early June on both Amazon.com and .ca the new models will be available for sale. The agent didn't want to commit to the price, but I think the pricing announced by...

So I'm reading the thread why 24 Bit isn't useless but why it's bad for music and I see it was locked? Why is my question? I thought this was the only place where we were allowed to dare discuss science in this community? I didn't read deeply into the thread, but why was it locked? If it was...

So I have been following a thread of people who modify their SPDIF/USB converters with different clocks. Now to read the thread you would swear there are massive differences, but my understanding is that clocks have really, really similar oscillation properties that may vary in precision in the...

Okay, well quickly, very quickly this headphone is becoming one of my favorite portables to date! I will try to temper my new toy enthusiasm, but the H7 is very, very good. I already know that I prefer it to the PM3, which I was very happy with. I actually hear the H7 as similar to the PM3 with...

Moving away from posting in the XTZ Divine thread I've decided to start this dedicated thread for the few members who will be interested.   @Giogio to answer your question about what adjustments I've made via the parametric EQ in Neutron that I feel improves the WS99BT (personal taste) it...

Recently I had spent quite a bit of money on a nice portable rig. I of course have had various rigs before, but this last version was perhaps the nicest, and of course the most expensive (go figure). It consisted of an Onkyo DP-X1, and the Oppo PM3 with a balanced cable. The sound was sublime...

Try to be as accurate as you can. Meaning if there is a possibility that any issues you want to report might be caused by your environment e.g. you sometimes have issues with Tidal on other devices in the same environment you should select the answer that reflects this. The idea isn't to prove I...

I'll be brief because I'm in a hurry. In a well enough controlled experiment 7 subjects did multiple listening trials of the same song, with the same gear. I controlled everything and I was extremely careful not to bias the testing. Participants were played 1:30 seconds of the same very well...

Okay, this is going to be by far and away the best meet we have had. I hope that by getting an early start we can organize this event to be top-notch. The room while decent in size is limited so we will need to be realistic in terms of what we want to include this time around.   We will be...

As my Onkyo DP-X1 is on the way I'm wondering if there are any good headphones for portable use that feature TRRS connectors at the cup. Anybody know?

Let's start this new thread with anybody who is interested in attending a late September meet responding here. As well, if I don't already have it, can you please PM me your non-head-fi contact information. When you do so, can you title your PM message September Meet Contact Info? This will make...

It has been a few years since we organized an Ottawa head-fi meet and it is indeed time for another. I would like to propose a February meet date at a venue to be determined, but it will be as central and within Ottawa in order to make public transit a reality. I think this time we will rent a...

I need to get a custom cable built that will act as a speaker tap for my HE 560s which I intend to run from the speaker terminals of my NAD M3. Based on feedback I have received it sounds like the relatively low noise floor of the M3, the moderate efficiency of the 560 and the quality volume pot...

My A18 is stuck in customs and I am so sick of waiting that I have had time to discover and consider the Can Opener http://www.vinylflat.com/canopener.html and just turn around and sell my A18 when it finally arrives here. Before I even purchased a headphone amp I was looking for just such a...

I am posting in this forum as I know it is typically a fairly busy forum here. I am embarrassed to admit this, but I really don't know about the relationship between using my Asgard 2 as a preamp out (with headphones plugged into it) and my NAD M3 integrated. As my NAD  doesn't have a headphone...

I have a very nice NAD M3 (at least nice in my opinion) but it does not have a headphone input. So I would like some suggestions on a quality headphone amp that can act as a passive preamplifier so that the M3 will be my amplifier. This is a temporary solution and I only have NAD HP50s to use so...