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hmm, sounds like clipping? It could possibility be from your ipod all the way to the cans/phones. try the same track from ipod to headphone and various combi to see if which equipment down the chain might be the cause. Is it crackling present at lower volumes? I know sometimes it could be badly encoded tracks also. sometimes certain encoders gave me problems on certain CDs. eg, patrica kass's paino bar & susan wong's cds caused their voice to have this minor vibrato effect when encoded with ALAC/320kbps mp3 but no problems with WMA lossless (yeah, not iPod playable) so experiment with various formats encoding also.

so wat is so good abt Cardas??? Someone pls enlighten me! xllms Alot of ppl uses Cardas, so hearing is believing I am looking for LOK RCAs LOK Rca available at MusicLink & Avit@SLS. Those RCAs are heavy.

hmm, Last check at Plaza Singapura cost around the 10-15 depending on the size.. j8 sports connection had a big clearout once for $5, damn should have gotten more!

Well, used various DIY ICs, from Belden &Canare starquad interconnects to Neotech OCC solidcore copper & silver. These neotech cable so far is the best I've heard, the the OCC copper is the next best to silver in terms of neutrality, with a touch of warmth.. want to try out some kimber kable / zu cables if there's auditioning available..

I use these, cost $5 at sports connection. Padded and fits most phones nicely. Eagle Creek Padded Cube

Did you plug the wall outlet in or running only on batteries? Try it with batteries only.

Nice work! Maybe if the picture of the skulls were backlit would make it look wicked! Urm, the top panel hole for the tubes are a little too big for my taste though.. overall, I like the look!

Since when? I didn't see any there last Saturday. Hmm, my bad.. maybe not X Audio.. but forgot which already

AKG k81 is bassy!! Remove the foam inset and run it in with treble EQed music and it opens up after 250hrs. I felt it damn BASSY when I first tried it. Didn't like it for home use but outdoors, it's great cos the bass really drowns out noisy traffic! The soundstaging is there and infact one of the best of closed cans. at $129, it's quite a steal! Watching some action flick with this baby is great too!! Never knew headphones could sound like subs! Overall the bass is good, but a little too much for some music. It's propably a better soundstaged version of BOSE's triport. & more value for money.

Well, the Zhaolu is definately better in design (electronically) and sounds better as standard than the mp5. the DAC in the mp5 is a little lacking, but using the PC as a source, it is good enough. If your transport is a dedicated CDP, than zhaolu is the way to go. Have an audition at X Audio@bkt timah plaza. They have a zhaolu there IIRC.

Thanks!! So I'll have to rewire one of my cables.. better to take out my multimeter and check the connections!

And a price nicely matched Unit px - US78 Shipping - US52 (they use a courier service fm Hong Kong, door to door, received within 2 working days, shipped on Fri, received on Mon afternoon) Bank Charge - US20 Total USD150 Local Bank Charge for TT application - S$30 Total - S$269 Contact email - dared@daredtube.com Contact person - Ms Julia (very responsive, replied all my emails on the same day, she is part of the reason why i made the buy).

I guess I must have misrepresented myself here, let me clarify: I have a stock US powercord and gotten a UK one so as to use my equipment anywhere.. The 2 cords are not the same socket type. Read something from HERE & HERE So I was wondering if the polarity IS different anot, and if so, I would like to rewire my cords. But I have search the everywhere but came up with nothing on china's socket configurations. Any idea?

I would like to know what is the polarity of china's AC socket? It seems the polarity of US is different from UK (I read from somewhere regarding the need to swap the IEC connections to correct the polarity of some power conditioner) but I'm not too sure I have a few chinese equipment and I wanna make sure the polarity is correct. I did the check of comparing the runs on stock cables to the upgraded powercords and it's the same, so now finding out if the Live & Neutral connections of ROC is the same polarity as Singapore? If it isn't, I'll need to rewire my cords. Anyone can verify this?

I was looking at the Modified Linkwitz for it's bypass and two xfeed settings. The simpler xfeed by pinkfloyd was considered but it didn't have an high impedence version

Well, I don't know about you, but I realise when I'm listening during a crowded day, the music sounded good. I'm not in an analytical mood hence psycologically I thought it sounded better than my home setup. I was less critical. But come, say, during the opening where 1. there is almost nobody, 2. they haven't broadcast their HMV radio over the store av system I find they are soso; boomy bass, muddy mids and little treble. I guess it's because during transit or when I'm out shopping, my mind and ears are pretty fatigue from the crowded noise of urban singapore hence I'm less critical during the listening.

Are you sure about this because the US retail price of the MP5 is about USD500. Are there any differences besides the voltage? Yes, the US version and asian versions are different. If you see the website of US resellers, you'll notice it states only US Version. Taken from Xtremeplace forums: Unit px - US78 Shipping - US52 (they use a courier service fm Hong Kong, door to door, received within 2 working days, shipped on Fri, received on Mon afternoon) Bank Charge - US20 Total USD150 Local Bank Charge for TT application - S$30 Total - S$269 Contact email - dared@daredtube.com Contact person - Ms Julia (very responsive, replied all my emails on the same day, she is part of the reason why i made the buy).

LOL, I say it isn't music because they are beatsy tracks. I didn't say they are junk, just not really MUSIC, the kinds that gives you a overall sense of well being, engaging and not just heart racing head banging sort. (which I term beats) lol

You can order from daredtube.com and email Julia. They deliver to you door in 3days and cost S$280 thereabouts.

Firstly, I've some background in electronics, done soldering and stuff.. but totally forgot my fundamentals. I've seen the schematics and gonna do a p2p soldering for this crossfeed. But I'm not to sure how I should wire the switches s1a s1b from the schematics Here to one DPDT switches. Anyone here can help? Best if there is a pic of how it should be wired as I don't know the wiring pins of these switches Also, where will I be able to source for these easily from 1 shop? 1. 1/2W & 1/4W Resistors 2. 35V Film Caps 3. Mini DPDT Switches I've only did some basic electronics from kits so I wanna know what I should look out for to indicate the following: 1. wattage of resistors - any audio grade variety? 2. Film cap ratings and voltages - how to identify film or ceramics 3. Type of DPDT switches - will any switch do or where can I find audio grade? Is there a specific thing to look out for audio grade parts?

Well these genre, to me, isn't music.. it's just beats.. Alot of these have more emphasis on drums, bass, and alot of electro syth. Don't get me wrong, I do listen to D&B and bass is important. but for music, it's all together a different story!

Using a PC to play discs in real time is a big fat NONO, the reasons are stated by mackie already. The only advantage and real purpose of PC based system is when you have taken the effort to capture the disc into software. and playing back from a digital archive. EAC has the ability to do many passes of scans, where the scans is analyse and computed in a percentage to the user on the final quality of the scan. This is a tedious process of capturing whereby many people shun pc based systems. simply because the way a pc is bulit around high speed circuitry, alot of effort is required in shielding the system for capture. A dedicated CD transport wins hands down here because the technology of these transport has been around some time and perfected. But here's where the value comes in. A software based audio jukebox doen't suffer from wear and tear unlike a CD. few years down, the audio from a pc sounds as good, but a cd might suffer a drop in quality. But on the other hand there are viruses and file corruption also... but it should be of no concern because the PC based system should purely be a dedicated digital jukebox for music and not multitask work and internet. ... I could go on endless, but IMHO, a CD transport is easier to manage & maintain than a PC based. It boils down to your NEEDs, CONCERNs, and ultimately BUDGET, not forgeting which system puts you in the comfort-zone of musical enjoyment. Select one system that adds value to your life, not one that gives you a headache of maintainance..

Alot of audiophile misunderstand the whole digital process of audio using a pc as source. Using EAC at bit level to capture and convert to lossless is very very accurate. True to the presses without any loss of infomation nor subceptible to noise pollution. There is only the concern of your cdrom drive's lens pickup, whether it is able to faithfully capture every bit in the cd. This issue of capturing the disc image accurately can be solved by reading the disc at low speeds. Which at bit level beats any transport hands down. EAC has a function to do error correction IIRC, and the conversion to lossless is purly digital. No worries of noise as the digital process is all 1s & 0s.. 5vs & Ground in electical term. RF and noise will not affact the process as flactuations in the voltages will register the digital signal accurately still. As the 1s in digital is registered as anywhere from 3v - 7v and zero is registered as anything below 1.5v, the signal is not degraded in any sense. (any electronic students can help to verify this 1s & Zero's voltages? It's been so long since I've touch my digital electronics lol) Unless your PC have a faulty PSU which cannot provide a clean 5v and ground rail, there should be no concern up till this point. Now hereon is where noise will come in. Processing the lossless files into audio signal via soundcard or digital out IS affected by case fans, hdd etc.. because the soundcard is wthin, expect negligable loss of quality.. (here's where audiophile bashes the computer as a source) To cut this problem, use an offloaded standalone sound processer. (eg. a Squeezebox 3 by slim devices) The music data is converted to audio signal away from the computer. Here, you get almost as good a dedicated transport and dac can offer you if not better. (the quality of squeezebox is almost audiophile level) Now audiophiles bash using PCs as source is because they probably use a USB sound card or via a USB Dac with Foobar. This method sure adds noise, although how much is dependant on how well configured is your system. Because the digital files are processed in many chains within the PC before being converted to audio in the outboard dac. You get some losses during these few chains of processing. To match the PCs as transport versus a dedicated audiophile setup, a squeezebox or some better standalone media player is the way to go. AFAIK, squeezebox is the best of current available players there is.

Well, if you look at current mastering studios now, every thing recorded and mastered is done on a digital system, like it or not, using computers high end or not. the Purist sound is polluted already at the mastering stage, like it or not, but it is not easily detectable. Purist use transport to ensure there is no further degration down the line or at least kept to a minimum. The PC adds noise to the chain hence it is not recommended. Because at the studio, all the recording equipment are shielded and properly protected with noise kept to a minimum but it is not 100% bit perfect. At times, upsampling is done, music is eqed and soundstaging adjusted to give a more pleasant listening experience. No music is pressed unedited so what purist are listening is not "that" pure. but again, their idealism of purity flows from the pressed recording down to their ears in the hifi chain. Ultimately analog systems are the purest form. It's like film versus digital in photography. This debate can be endless. film is an art of light, just like hi fi in the tube days, fast forward to today, digital offers more accuracy, more depth, more dynamics to the photographer's free play. Purist photographer will use digital technoloy to capture the image without further enhancement, modern photograpers go the raw>photoshop way of adjustments and tweak to capture what is not possible or not even there during the image capture. Alot of purist don't realise that most presses of modern day are tweak one way or another. So it boils down to 1 thing, your source (your cds and not the transport). How far would you go to listen to them. if it's normal presses, a sub level transport/even a properly configured pc system is sufficient. Most important is that your hifi chain does justice to the music. Don't spend too much, but also don't spend to little. ASk yourself if you can live with your choices. sometime, some things we percieve is pycological.

I have 2 spare ICs terminated with Canare f12 using belden starquad cables. Short one at 10cm (RESERVED by BIGGULP) for DAP to Amp and another at 1m. I'm gonna try out silver ICs so letting go of these few spare cables. Anyone interested? They're much better than stock ICs that comes with your portable amps. [attachmentid=3471] The Short IC [attachmentid=3472] Canare f12 [attachmentid=3473] The long and short cable *ops, the other right angle cable is not available for sale, [attachmentid=3470] Belden cable