What is the best budget IEM for long flights? I like neutral or mildly warm sound. I am not a bass head and listen primarily to classical music, and jazz and a little classic rock. I like the Ety sound but find them fragile and uncomfortable for really long (8-14 hour) flights. I also like...

I'm going to spending a week in Beijing for work. Are there any shops to visit or things to buy that are cheap and easy to pick up vs. ordering online? I'm thinking $10-$30 nice IEMs, ear bud tips, wires, etc. Maybe a really good cheap DAC. Also which shops in Beijing to get this stuff. Thanks.

Can someone point me to any recent studies that have followed up very old AT&T work on training people to hear differences? I vaguely remember an old AT&T or Bell Labs study showing that people who could not identify a low frequency tone mixed in with noise were able to reliable identify the...

I wonder if someone can help with this problem.  I had no problems streaming with Foobar on a laptop from a shared network drive located elsewhere to my Oppo 103. But starting yesterday it won't "see" the network drive at all.  I've tried restarting both the laptop and main computer. I've also...

I currently am running an Oppo 103 into an old school 2 channel audio only system with separate preamp and amp.  I realized a bit late that the 103 doesn't take push USB, so I only use it for physical discs or to stream media using foobar or the Ipad app.   However, i would also like to listen...

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My understanding of the law is that in Europe recordings lose their copyright after 50 years, hence the explosion in jazz and classical reissues from the 1950s.  But the law was apparently changed so that beginning in Nov 2013 there was a 20 year extension.  So I'm curious because if all of that...

I'm a very big fan of late nineteenth/early twentieth century music and I'm especially fond of composers whose work has been overlooked or ignored in the rush towards originality uber alles.  When I was younger, Korngold was rarely heard but he's come back into the mainstream now.   However...

My dragonfly worked perfectly for about 3 months with Windows 7.  But recently it's been developing these small clicks and pops when playing Spotify.  It's intermittent and it goes away if I restart the computer.  But the problem seems to recur more frequently now.  Any idea what the issue might...

I wonder if someone can help with this problem:  I successfully setup Foobar to push music to my Oppo 103 and it worked fine for weeks. But just today it decided to stop "seeing" the Oppo.  When I pull up the UPnP controller it no longer shows any devices in the pull down menu.   Any idea what...

I have a problem that you might be able to help with.   I've successfully configured Foobar2k so that I can stream music from my laptop to the Oppo 103, but I don't see how to get Spotify to play on the 103 unless the laptop is hardwired to the USB port.  I can't use a Roku stick or similar...

I know that this is totally subjective, but my favorite recordings were those engineered by Kenneth Wilkinson for Decca.  The mix of a natural perspective, a high degree of transparency and warmth, with discreet spotlighting and beautiful soundstaging was a hallmark of the classic Decca...

I wonder if any of you have suggestions for a reasonably priced set of headphones that are comparable in comfort albeit perhaps a little worse in sound than the Senn HD600?   At work I've used first a Grado 60 which is now kaput and then some Sennheiser HD 438s.  I don't expect my work phones...

I have a problem that I can't seem to find a solution to by Googling.  I've successfully used Foobar to play music off my home network on my Oppo 103.  But recently, Foobar won't "see" some files.  I bought and downloaded a few collections of music from Amazon and they're all in standard...

Hi all.  I didn't find this topic after a few searches, so I'm asking for help here.  I just got the Audioquest Dragonfly (older version) and it installed nicely.  I set it to 24 bit, 96k but I thought that using it with Foobar2000 should allow the files to be processed differently for 16 bit...

Hello. This is my first post and I decided to join to get help with a problem I can't seem to solve.   I installed the latest 1.03 beta of EAC and tried ripping to FLAC, but it keeps giving me only WAV files.  I read up on this problem, went through different iterations of setups, but all with...