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At 0:12 all the screens appear to be separate systems (they're booting at different speeds). And they're running Red Hat!

Wow, there's some misconceptions floating around here... To put it up top - I work for Mandriva. I wasn't involved in this particular deal and these are not official company statements, but obviously I should mention that. One, the problem is not, per se, losing business to Microsoft. As...

I think the guy who wrote that article is getting his ACPI and his APIC confused. In Linux, at least, you can disable APIC (which does IRQ routing) without disabling ACPI. I'd assume you can do the same on Windows.

Actually, I find this kind of post depressing. Disregarding the first issue, which was your fault, they sold you a defective product (sub buzz), and after you prodded them several times, they replaced it. This constitutes great service which is worthy of a forum post? I'd say anything _less_ is...

jason: all the firestone amps are designed to be general-purpose (they power anything from Grados to 600ohm old-style AKGs to well over 100dB), so the Beyond should power the HD580s fine. You might want to get in touch with someone from Firestone and ask if they'd recommend the Beyond or the...

Yeah, "USB is better quality" is frankly bullcrap. Think of it like this: you're paying an extra $13. whoopee. but that extra $13 has to pay for basically an entire sound card in the headphones. Unless your sound card is really, really, really terrible, the USB headset will likely sound worse...

At which point she can say "so you'll be paying for your own college fees, then?" At least, if she's a _smart_ mother. :)

I'd try it with the HT setup. Logitech speakers _really_ aren't anything to write home about in fidelity terms.

What are your PC speakers?

Everything will sound better. Amps are necessary with high-impedence headphones to actually make them loud enough to listen to. They do this by increasing the level of voltage of the signal sent to the headphones. Their other function is to increase the level of current, which can improve the...

64's not that bad. Quite a lot of people use 280s direct from portables.

actually, there's a couple of guys on head-fi who rate phillips pretty high for cheap stuff. if you can't find a pair of the senns to compare, don't sweat it, the phillips are probably fine...

I have it, and have been very happy with it (driving HF-1s). What headphones do you have?

Buffering the output stage in a simple amp design (like the cmoy) basically increases the level of current delivered, which is what low-impedence cans want from an amp (they don't need voltage since they're, well, low-impedence). So you shouldn't be looking for buffers so much as an amp designed...

The headphone socket on the z5300s is the single worst piece of audio equipment I've ever had the displeasure of listening to. It's just hideous - noisy, distorted and massively underpowered. Plug the cans directly into your soundcard and they'll sound a lot better. If you're still not happy...

rishy: z5300 speakers stink from a fidelity point of view (they're great for big booming bass, though), there's no way I could ever justify spending more than $50 on a sound card for them to be honest.

E-Mus will play games (they're not Evil Psycho Game Killers or something, they just don't lift the load off the CPU and do environment effects like gaming cards do). They're also highly reputed for output _as well_ as input quality. What's your budget here? You've basically got five price...

jim: the impedence (along with the sensitivity) of the headphone determines whether you need an external amp simply to drive it to listenable volume levels from a line-out or weedy headphone-out. This is the most _obvious_ reason you'd need a headphone amp: with high-impedence cans you need...

computerpro: they (k1000s) were actually designed to be driven from the speaker terminals of a speaker amp. That's what the manual tells you to do, anyway...

mrprez: they're HP-2s, part of the first headphone line Grado ever made (the others were HP-1, which had a phase switch, and HP-3, which were supposedly less well driver-matched versions of the HP-2s, but according to John Grado in practice they're more or less the same). Designed by Joe Grado...

A-T A500 / A700 / A900 are a nice fit except in the portability stakes, they're huge. For portability you could consider Sony V6, A-T ES7s ( http://www.audiocubes.com/product/Audio-Technica_ATH-ES7_Portable_Headphones.html ), Sony Eggo D66s (they don't isolate, but don't leak either), Sennheiser...

I'm not entirely convinced the DAC in those edifiers is going to be better than the AV710's Wolfson, it may still sound better going analog...

So how are you liking the RS-1s? :)

towert: there's not that many headphones that are signficantly better than an hd580 and don't cost silly money...it'd be far more sensible to drop $200 on a good amp for the hd580s than on some other pair of 'phones, I think.

chiablo: _most_ receivers don't have terribly good headphone stages. In your situation, I'd skip the amp - I don't think it would be essential in your situation. The HD555s will sound fine straight out of the Audigy (though they'd sound _better_ out of an X-Fi). If the Audigy has the same...

price range? intended use (home, portable, office, etc)? preferred music? willing to buy an amp or not?

av710 if music is more important to you, audigy if games are more important.

Don't bother with the 515s, they're not a sensible choice (I seem to recall reading they use HD497 drivers and sound the same as 497s - not bad, but you may as well buy 497s and save the money). Generally the advice is to either go with 4xxs or jump to 555s, don't bother with the 515s.

It may be somewhat amplified, but if it's anything like the one on the z5300, it sounds like crap and should be avoided at any cost.

Right. Buy any of the good stereo headphones recommended on this forum (from Sennheiser HD201s at the budget end through to HD595s or A-T A900s at the higher end), use the CMSS Surround mode on the X-Fi, and you'll be happy, and you'll also have great headphones for regular stereo music etc.

btw, it's true that aacplus _is_ mighty impressive at low bitrates in comparative terms - it definitely sounds better than any other codec I've heard in the 24-128 range. At 64k it _is_ very close to 128k MP3 - the highs are weird, but then I hate mp3 highs too, so there's not much difference...

then your ears are broken. Badly, badly, badly broken. Either that or your speakers / headphones stink. Yeah, it's all subjective and yadda yadda yadda, but absolutely _any_ codec at 24kbps sounds like poop (except for plain voice).

Uh, not to be an audio snob or anything, but this forum has quite a lot of crossover with head-fi (www.head-fi.org), which means your XD400s really don't count as either "expensive" or "bad boys" by the general standard around here :). They're pretty decent headphones for the money but you can...

Wouldn't be the same problem, then. Sorry, I don't know what'd be causing it :\

Being lazy, I'd be inclined to go out and find an old stereo receiver / amp with a built-in phono stage and some kind of monitor output (shouldn't be very hard to find one cheap, they were standard equipment in the 1970s / 1980s). See, for example, this one...

AC3 is the format used for encoded DVD audio (Dolby Digital), sorry. What were you playing? Music, a DVD, a game?

Don't use a cmoy amp for low-impedence phones. It's a low-current high-voltage design best suited to boosting the volume of high-impedence phones, not providing the extra current needed by low-impedence phones for improved bass handling. You want to find a cheap (since your headphones, sorry...

I had something possibly similar outputting my AV710 to my HT receiver digitally: turned out it was attempting to output an AC3 stream at 44.1KHz (thanks to some dodgy ALSA settings, I run Linux). Could something similar be the case for you?

yep, hd280s are about the best isolating full-size headphones available. IEMs (in-ear monitors, earplug phones like the etymotics, Shures etc) isolate even more, but you may find them uncomfortable.

I use sound-juicer, the GNOME CD ripper, which has a FLAC output setting right in the preferences window and rips through a gstreamer pipeline, which means it's one fast efficient process, not a two-stage rip-to-wav / convert-to-flac process (which is what EAC and CDex do behind the scenes). One...