I have a Panasonic DMP-BD87 Bluray player I got for 10 bucks from Goodwill. It has left and right RCA audio jacks, which I'm hooking into some computer speakers using a male L & R RCA (The BD player) to male 3.5 mm jack (the speakers). Obviously I'm not going to be listening to the full-blown...

Was ripping another CD, using, as I always have, this tutorial. Noticed this one part here, where he sets bit rate and it's only 1024 kBit/s, which is the highest option in the dropdown. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what this setting actually is, but CD quality bitrate is 1,411 kbps and we're...

Just ripped two CDs to .flac files. According to the first's log file, four tracks do not have 100 % track quality. Three say "Track quality 99.8 %" and one is 99.7 %. All tracks say "Accurately ripped (confidence 25)". Near the end of the log file says:   Track | CTDB Status   1   | (94/96)...

  Wouldn't using the HM5 cups with the V-Moda LP2 change the can's sound? Thanks though, I'll look into that.

My brother is having comfort issues with his LP2s. The tips of his ears are pinched. Thinking about buying these replacement ear pads, but it looks like all they do is make the drivers farther from your head. The top and bottom on the openings are the same distance from each other, so I imagine...

  Nice, thanks. Do you know how the DT 770 32 ohm compares with the DT 880 32 ohm?

How are the 32 ohm versions of each for metal / rock?

My brother is in the market. Here's what we're dealing with!   The man digs his metal. Seriously, you should see the beard and mane on this bro. Sound leakage doesn't matter too much. My impression is that the kind of bass that metal requires would probably mean closed backs, but open backs...

So there's this Turtle Beach thing that appears to be mostly used for gaming. It takes in surround sound and processes it for headphones. Does anyone know whether or not it would also work with a dedicated Bluray player? The DSS is USB powered and gets audio from an optical in.   Thanks a lot.

Watched a bit more. While I was correct that the issue has lessened, I can now see that it's not entirely gone. So any comments are still appreciated.

There is a setting to boost audio when downsampling that was checked by default. I unchecked it and, from a brief watching of a few moments where I heard the fizzleing before, the problem is at least partially gone. I'm fairly sure that I still heard it at one time or another, but I also noticed...

Been watching Blu Rays on my laptop using an external Blu Ray drive and listening using my Sennheiser 598 plugged right into the laptop's 3.5 mm, no other audio equipment. Despite the horror stories I've heard about the PC Blu Ray scene, things have been largely fine, with one exception.   I'm...

  Nuts, I keep forgetting you guys can't magically know what's in my head. lawlz   My intended possible setups are as follows:   Buy a Blu Ray Player and a monitor. Find some way to use my current cans. Buy a PS4 and a monitor. Use my current cans with them somehow. Buy an external usb Blu...

  Snap, this audio stuff is too much for me. I know what an AVR is, but I don't know what an SSP is. Ugh, if I have to buy so many different things just to use my cans I may as well buy normal speakers or something.   ...Except that the whole reason I want to use the cans is that I'm in an...

  Oh, snap, sorry. My laptop is pretty good but for some reason that thread slows things down like CRAZY. I closed the tab before getting a chance to see the rest. While I'm still not definitely getting a PS4, I'll take a look later, thanks!

  Thanks, but I'm planning to stick with the Sennheiser 598's that I already own. The problem now is finding a way to use them with either a Blu Ray player or a PS4. I suppose with the PS4 I could just use the Turtle Beach DSS, but things seem more complicated with a normal Blu Ray player...

Okay, just realized a problem. Here are my basic choices.   (1) Get the Schiit Uber stack. Get a Blu ray player. ($180 x 2) + 100-ish = $460.   (2) Get a PS4 for it's Blu ray($350). Get a Turtle Beach Surround Sound thing-y (like $20 bucks). $20 + $350 = $370.   So for cheaper I could a...

Hey, thanks for the quick response. I really need to get my Blu ray on soon!   Anyway, I don't own a Blu ray player right now and I'm not exactly in the $1,000 dollar price range, but thanks. :)   So it looks like I'll have to get a Schiit stack or some such. Hmm...Is there really no way to...

EDIT: My situation becomes clearer in the following posts.   Thinking about buying a Bluray player but I'm not in an environment where I feel comfortable blasting full surround sound, so I've decided to use my Sennheiser 598 cans for Bluray. Unfortunately, my impression is that most Bluray...

Ripping to FLAC for the first time today. According to Foobar2000, the bitrates are different from the same tracks on CD. Some drop from 1411 to 630 kbps.   As I said I'm new. Is this a problem? Why wouldn't the Bitrate be the same? So does that mean these files aren't CD quality? It's...

I know. I did 50 hours 4 hours at a time.

I know this was discussed a while back, but I'm not sure I saw the answers I'd like. Take a look below:         Above: should I match that setting with the source I'm listening to? So what for Spotify (Yeah, I know)? Steam games?       Above: For sample rates, should I select all of...

Burning in the cans now. Would the burn in go more quickly if I use my Fiio E10K? If not, I'd rather not have the Fiio on for hours and hours if I'm not listening.

Alright, just before I was ready to buy the 598's I hear about this Fidelio X2. Apparently it's got a good soundstage AND epic bass. Has anyone here by any chance heard both pairs? Is the X2's soundstage as good as the 598's? I mean I'm seriously tempted by that bass, but I've heard such good...

Thought about buying new pads, but I was afraid of the effect that they'd have on the cans' sound signature. I did the cotton ball mod and that solved my comfort problem with the cans' sound intact. I returned them anyway because I wanted a less congested soundstage