radioactive28

Should make him share his joy

Price and quality aside, gotta dig those killer looks

Wish I could, but it's only a few days from the start of my exams... Maybe if I could convince a few friends to break studying and get them to join me

Totally agree on the sitting. I've been to Singapore Conference Hall a few times, for various performances, and realised that some positions gave quite a weird stereo effect, completely out of whack with what my eyes were seeing. Got me wondering about how acoustic design worked and what they were even trying to achieve.

You got acrylic, not silicone? Do they stick out a lot? I've currently got an E4c on custom tips, they stick out like crazy, as do most pictures I've seen of the ER4 with custom tips.

The T1 is 650 sterling a pair, which works out to at least S$1700 http://www.hearingprotection.co.uk/index.p...=124&Itemid=223 Personally, I'd just like to know if anyone got the custom tips for ER4P/S...

Wasn't quite obvious at first, but someone is trying to test the moderators' limits.

Think you're looking at UEs or full customs, for customising cables. The new Shures come with short cables. Any other brands, and you'll definitely be voiding the warranty.

Worcell.com sells the 2200mAh battery for the H3xx, and it's based locally. It's a slightly tight fit, but it fits.

Gah, bumping my own thread, but heck. One year on, I haven't gotten SSDs for my H320, and HDD players seemed to have been all phased out. Did get the next best thing though - a CF-to-1.8"-IDE adaptor that's supposed to work for players (1st/2nd-gen iPod, H1xx, H3xx, certain iAudio models?) using the Toshiba 1.8" HDD. A downside though - I've either gotten a faulty adaptor, or it's just not working for my player. If anyone would like to have a try, or give your player a new lease of life, just let me know =) (Plus, I'd really like to see this mod work.) By the way, if the adaptor does work, a 32Gb CF card costs about, what, 300 bucks max?

So, are we going to see the brand name go down the drain? Imagine the market being flooded with universal UE canalphones the likes of Sony and Creative, a dime a dozen.

Dropped by Stereo for some foamies and I find out that these babies use the ER4 drivers for tweeters. Then I realised I'm still 3, 4 years away from getting a job

Bro, have you ever tried surfing the web on your mobile phone, PSP or a PDA? Small screen + lack of qwerty keyboard + no intuitive means of navigation = absolute pain It's far from challenging the iPod touch, but if they can do good wireless PC-to-player transfer, I think it should already be a winner in its own right.

Congrats on the UE10Pros First time I've heard of such a service though. Is there anything special about the industrial CD ripper as compared to your average CD drive? Batch processing for all the discs? Anyway, from my POV, I would stick to the 320kbps and do a slow transition over to lossless (encoding to FLAC seems to be pretty fast for your modern C2D processor), just to see if there is any difference in quality.

Oh, okay, I see what you're trying to do. Many programmes will internally decode the MP3 file before re-encoding it to whatever new format you want. Pardon me if you already know this, or if I assumed wrongly, but there's a catch. For example, if you've got an MP3 file @ 192kbps, there's no point re-encoding it to a higher bitrate or quality (e.g., 320kbps AAC) because there won't be any real increase in quality.

Not too sure what you're asking... How about you tell us exactly what you want to do? For example, converting MP3 to WMA, or CD to MP3 et cetera. In terms of data processing, If you're encoding directly from an audio CD, it's raw data (i.e., not encoded). If you're converting from MP3, AAC, WMA etc, they're already encoded, and will most likely be decoded before being re-encoded again. If you're asking about the actual process, most programmes should be able to directly encode what you have (source) to what you want (destination), without creating a 3rd temporary file.

I don't know if MP3BookHelper works under Vista, but it can do Unicode and FreeDB. EAC can't seem to handle Unicode, which is the source of your problems. You can also try changing Vista's default language handling to Japanese or Chinese. It's not just changing your display to show Japanese or Chinese though. (This is less useful though, since you have to change to JP for JP, and change again for CH.) Maybe you could check Google for help on this. Or I'll make another post later, when I log into Vista and can detail the exact steps.

While I'm not a bass person and can't really recommend anything there, I'll repeat the normal advice so you won't lose your hearing. Stay away from open cans for outdoor use, especially on public transport. Go with IEMs or closed-back ear/headphones.

Try checking this out for user reviews on Head-Fi. I'm not sure about now, since I haven't been updated for quite some time, but Skull Candy was something to avoid, the last I heard.

Yep, the reason is called branding, product positioning. The sound quality of the QC3 is actually decent enough, if you disregard the price.

EDIT: (didn't read properly) It's possibly just your player, since the UM2 is supposed to be slightly more sensitive. Try adding some impedance between your player and the 'phones. The part about more hiss with EQ, it might be that the EQ implementation on your player is bad. The iPods were like this.

When you do get the Cowon D2 16Gb, check its capacity. Don't be too surprised to find only 15,259Mb, or 14.9Gb. http://forums.highdefdigest.com/showthread.php?p=381932

To the TS' question, the loudness war is threatening to destroy good music as we know it.

I don't exactly abuse my e4c, but don't really take care of it either. The cable sleeve is hardening and cracking from sweat, but the sound is still sweet. Oh, mine is 1 year 4 months old, been using it on my daily commutes (about 2 to 3 hours daily, sometimes more) since I bought it.

The flash chips used are pretty standard within the industry, but you don't see other companies getting sued. Just check out your own USB flash drives. Both my 1Gb Sandisks have about 960Mb, not 1000Mb. If anything, their fault is not skimping on the gigabyte. It's not including the standard disclaimer that "1Gb = 1,000,000,000 bytes". No matter how fine the print, it is a legal shield. Not that I'm trying to defend Creative. I think they suck at doing business. It's damn irritating though, to keep seeing frivolous class action suits that were possibly initiated by people who knew what they were doing when they set out on the hunting trip.