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mostly whathifi suggest headphone amp or dac and using laptop as source. but i hardly see headphones plugin to amps or cd player. is this less popular choice? is this because amps metal body produces some lite electric shocks?( i know my denon amp does! ) or because its danger listening to them...

my setup: laptop>usb dac>rca>amp>speakers i'm sure the usb dac improves the speaker's sound. but if i plugin headphone onto the amp's jack, does the headphones gets benefit from the usb dac too? not planning on getting headphone dac.

i'm definitely living under a cage. i looked it up about this and since 2009 most itunes songs are drm free so we can definitely play itunes music files on as many pc's as long we don't shared those online cause apple can track and take action on the original owner whom uploaded them. i'm just...

i' am re-installing my itunes on my current window laptop. so i backed up my itunes purchased songs by copy and paste the folder to flashdrive. while re-installing itunes, i inserted the flashdrive into my other old windows laptop to open some letters. i also click to check the itunes folder i...

does dac bypass everything on the audio quality? for example is it better to get an a mac or i5 laptop with beats audio or just budget pentium laptop with onboard soundchip?

i want to improve sound quality for my stereo hi fi & especially to remove unwanted sound ( jitter etc ) from laptop.because it will be my music source. i'm down to these two and both have the same price: - the famous hrt streamer ii ( usb/no power supply ) - brik dac (...

really really appreciate... but i'am not that advanced, please treat me as a learning bot and as a bot, let me replay my buttons: 1. just itunes, is purchased itunes automatically downloaded in aac 256kbps for highest quality? can i play/change around with the settings. ( itunes is new in my...

yes, grandpas. this is how we teens do it. we ''sample'' before deciding to purchase the real stuff. i'm sure if internet was here 50 years ago you would do the same. geez, you oldies never experiment music at teenage years and started hi fi at age what, 50? pirates? i typed taylor swift full...

got some lame boring questions, bought chord leyline 2 ( 2m x 2 ). got it home and damn! mistake! should have bought 3m x 2. the left length is fine but on right side blocked my way to the exit door. so everytime i'm done listening i have to disconnect the cable ( banana plug ) for safety. 1...

1. Are all purchased itunes automatically downloaded in 256 aac? Is that the best itunes quality to play on hi fi? 2. If I decided not to burn my cds into lossless and prefer to insert them into dvd drive to play music. Will I loose audio quality? 3. For all questions above, are dac really...

Thanks for the replies. I went for the 4kdownloader at the moment. Just curious about the settings. There are options to convert to 128 / 256 / 320kbps & mp3 / ogg / mpeg4 formats. Does this mean if I wanted to download say a 256kbps audio file then the setting should be 256? not 320? and if...

yes i know shared mp3 from internet is not the audiophile way but sometimes i like to ' audition ' them few months before purchasing from itunes. can you guys recommend me which options the best for downloading and converting shared mp3 ( youtube, mp3skull, 4shared tec. ) because i heard...

wait what? how do you connect cd player to external dac? does cd player has optical/coax? ext dac i know only have usb/opt/coax input and rca/head out. am i missing something?

just curios which of these supposedly sounded best. 1. cd player + headphone 2. cd player + amp + headphone 3. rip cd to laptop + dac + headphone 4. rip cd to laptop + dac + amp + headphone what you think?

Help me choose and why. 1. Budget AMD laptop + usb dac or 2. Hp i3 laptop with built in Beats audio or 3. Hp i3 with Beats + usb dac This is for hi fi setup. If i choose no 1, would a slow spec laptop / netbook effect audio quality? i really like no 2 but concern about volume control and how...