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There's the FiiO D03K but I'm not aware of any measurements for it unfortunately. I'm currently using it to connect a TV's optical out to the RCA input of an RCA-only receiver, because it's less noisy than the 3.5mm output on the TV. It seems to be getting phased out of production but you can...

My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge has a miserable mixdown, especially on the rhythm guitar. It's also a product from a major label during the worst of the loudness wars, so it's got clipping artifacts on a few tracks. Someone on Reddit shoved the album through an automatic...

It's good news for Sankar and any other Audeze shareholders, but them being bought by the PlayStation arm of Sony in particular is worrying. Recent PlayStation products have been using wireless protocols like PlayStation Link at the expense of Bluetooth (including their Pulse 3D headset and the...

Pretty funny for him to write a dig like that when his main role at the site is re-wording press releases.

MakeMKV can transcode DVD/Blu-Ray discs and disc images to MKV while preserving all that stuff, but it won't handle compression. Unfortunately their site isn't clear about .VOB support. I know HandBrake was popular for compressing to MPEG-4 when I was putting anime on an iPod Classic a decade...

Thanks for the suggestions @IAtaman, the Rock Pi S looks like a great fit! I'm also looking forward to trying CamillaNode. My current plan is to use the Ultralite mk5 for output to speakers/subs and an SMSL C200 for output to headphones, so hopefully it'll make swapping EQ presets on the C200...

I'm about to get a MOTU Ultralite mk5 to pair with an SBC for CamillaDSP/streaming, but unfortunately Raspberry Pi 4s are still hard to find at decent prices. There are plenty of alternative SBCs and small form-factor PCs out there, but it's hard to narrow it down to one that's not too weak nor...

For new and re-releases, CDJapan and HMV are alright. For older releases, Discogs is the easiest to use but may have more of a price markup; Buyee and Yahoo Auctions Japan require some language knowledge and may require a proxy shipper (someone in Japan who receives the package and then mails it...

I've been using a FiiO D3 for this purpose in my living room (TV optical out -> FiiO D3 -> stereo amp) and it's been fine. You can get one without the mini USB power cable on Amazon for $20.

This looks like it could make a neat DAP if the 3.5mm out is good or if you can get a good dongle DAC attached, not as cheap as used LG V-series phones with the well-measuring built-in DACs but definitely a better value than the cheap Android DAPs. I think the 3 inch screen would be fine with...

Those seem like they'd be great to put on Archive.org.

I picked up a box of reusable cable ties for this purpose and they've been great. They're easier to get a tight fit with than hook/loop ties while collecting much less hair and dust, though I tend to use them in less visible areas so I can leave them uncut.

If you have another way to get audio out of your PC (onboard 3.5mm jack, optical audio, another DAC/audio interface, etc.), you can use Voicemeeter to send synchronous audio to multiple devices (your Loxjie for mains, another device for subs) and Equalizer APO to run separate EQs on each for...

You can get aftermarket IEM cables with inline controls/mic, like the Tripowin Grace. Comply foam tips and Moondrop's foam tips both have great isolation in my experience, with the latter being a bit easier to insert/remove.

Plenty of people on audio production/engineering forums are susceptible to cognitive bias. You can be pretty good at either without being well-read on the relevant theory nor having neutral speakers. It'll probably become less of a problem as audio engineering education becomes more standardized...

I wouldn't worry about the DR rating of the music you listen to much. It doesn't even measure the thing it says it's measuring, the loudness range of the music, instead it's a ratio of RMS/peak volume aka crest factor. Sound On Sound did a good overview of the difference between crest factor and...

Thanks for the tip! I'll have to reinstall foobar and give this a shot. The other Milkdrop implementations I've messed with handle the basic functions, but the extended features (like a separate window for editing presets and VJing) never worked as consistently as they did in Winamp. If this can...

I'd never heard of those until you mentioned them, from a cursory glance it seems he did a good job of pulling them off the internet in general, there's not even any footage on youtube. I'll have to do some digging and see if they've been mirrored anywhere.

There are also DIY ball vapes (like the Pinky) out there, but I was too paranoid about doing something wrong and ending up with a few dozen blazing hot ruby balls rolling around my floor to go that route.