Re: Test message To See If My Messages Still Come Through
Unfortunately, this came to the list. Just saying. On 26 May 2015, at 19:30, Chris Skarstad rascal0...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Writing to you privately, yes your message came through just fine. On 5/26/2015 1:46 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote: Hello list: I changed the subject line of this message as I'm not sure I have the right address to this list! I received a message, telling me that my membership has been disabled! I replied to the message as I was instructed to do! So hopefully this reply will go through...and I'll receive it as well! My apologies for being off-topic; am only trying to make sure that all is working as it should here! Tom Kaufman -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of André van Deventer Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 12:27 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: improving headphone sound with a portable amp? I use a little headphone amplifier made by a company called Headroom. It takes 4 AAA batteries. What I like about it is that it has a high and low impedence switch so it caters for all kinds of headphones. You get a short cable with it which allows you to connect your mp3 device or whatever to the 3.5 mm input of the amplifier. It also has a usb socket so you can use it as a sound card also. I think it was called the Egghead or something like that. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Mary Otten Sent: 21 May 2015 05:50 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: improving headphone sound with a portable amp? Hi all, Several years ago, I purchased a pair of AKG Q701 headphones for use with a home stereo. These are, in my opinion, outstanding phones, especially considering the price is around $200 or a bit more on Amazon.They are wonderfully comfortable to wear for extended periods of time, more so than any other phones I've seen, bar none. Recent reviews indicate some dissatisfaction, since these are now apparently being made in China, rather than Austria, the home country of AKG. But that's not the point of this message. I have tried my Q701 with the headphone output of my iPhone and find the output of the phone isn't sufficient to drive the Qs well. So I looked into the possibility of a portable headphone amp, such as the fiio e12, which has pretty decent reviews on Amazon. It is not clear to me, however, how you get the signal from the lightning port on the phone to the little amp, as it doesn't seem to come with a cable. You can purchase a separate LOD from fiio, but it has the old style 30-pin connector. You could then purchase an official Apple lightning adapter at some ridiculously inflated price, of course, and then I suppose the set up would work, although I don't think this amp has a DAC, and I'm not sure if you'd need one of those anyway. So, the question. What are folks doing who have head phones which are not driven adequately by the crummy output stages found in portable devices like phones etc? Mary
RE: Test message To See If My Messages Still Come Through
Thank you, Chris; wasn't sure of what was going on as I did get something telling me that my membership had been disabled! I replied to that message and it seems to be okay now! Thanks again! Tom Kaufman -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Chris Skarstad Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 2:31 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Test message To See If My Messages Still Come Through Hi Writing to you privately, yes your message came through just fine. On 5/26/2015 1:46 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote: Hello list: I changed the subject line of this message as I'm not sure I have the right address to this list! I received a message, telling me that my membership has been disabled! I replied to the message as I was instructed to do! So hopefully this reply will go through...and I'll receive it as well! My apologies for being off-topic; am only trying to make sure that all is working as it should here! Tom Kaufman -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of André van Deventer Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 12:27 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: improving headphone sound with a portable amp? I use a little headphone amplifier made by a company called Headroom. It takes 4 AAA batteries. What I like about it is that it has a high and low impedence switch so it caters for all kinds of headphones. You get a short cable with it which allows you to connect your mp3 device or whatever to the 3.5 mm input of the amplifier. It also has a usb socket so you can use it as a sound card also. I think it was called the Egghead or something like that. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Mary Otten Sent: 21 May 2015 05:50 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: improving headphone sound with a portable amp? Hi all, Several years ago, I purchased a pair of AKG Q701 headphones for use with a home stereo. These are, in my opinion, outstanding phones, especially considering the price is around $200 or a bit more on Amazon.They are wonderfully comfortable to wear for extended periods of time, more so than any other phones I've seen, bar none. Recent reviews indicate some dissatisfaction, since these are now apparently being made in China, rather than Austria, the home country of AKG. But that's not the point of this message. I have tried my Q701 with the headphone output of my iPhone and find the output of the phone isn't sufficient to drive the Qs well. So I looked into the possibility of a portable headphone amp, such as the fiio e12, which has pretty decent reviews on Amazon. It is not clear to me, however, how you get the signal from the lightning port on the phone to the little amp, as it doesn't seem to come with a cable. You can purchase a separate LOD from fiio, but it has the old style 30-pin connector. You could then purchase an official Apple lightning adapter at some ridiculously inflated price, of course, and then I suppose the set up would work, although I don't think this amp has a DAC, and I'm not sure if you'd need one of those anyway. So, the question. What are folks doing who have head phones which are not driven adequately by the crummy output stages found in portable devices like phones etc? Mary
Re: another issue has come up
Mike, When do you broadcast? Joe On Wed, 27 May 2015 16:23:14 -0400 Mike Bernard mbern6...@aol.com wrote: Hi Joe, Got everything back up and running now. Something nutty was happening with the encoders somewhere. The general manager at ACB Radio tapped into my computer using Jaws and got everything straightened out. Mike -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Joe Paton Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 4:19 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: another issue has come up Mike, here's what I do. Start the sam encoders. press the application key, and select new ins. If you have an encoder set already, and focus is on that one, select config. If you are on a new instance, then as you have done, select mp3 and mp3 pro. Then after hitting the ok button, You should be in a converter window, which is one of three.the other tabs are server details and stream archive. If you don't see these tab controls, then something may be wrong with the installation. Did you enter the authorization key or whatever they call it in sam? good luck Joe On Wed, 27 May 2015 12:40:49 -0400 Mike Bernard mbern6...@aol.com wrote: Hello again everyone, I finally got Winamp 5.666 back up and running again, however, now I'm in the process of trying to setup my encoders in sam. The only problem is, you know how when you select the new ins options from the applications menu and choose mp3 and mp3 pro? This is where I'm having trouble. There's usually a focuss issue with that window, and so what I do is press spacebar on mp3 and mp3 pro, and then using my numpad arrows, I press numpad 3 to move the virtual mouse down to the bottom right, then press insert numpad 7 until I get to the ok an cancel buttons, and left-click on ok, which normally takes me into the next window, where I can select options for the server information, converter, streaming bit rate ETC. However, for some reason, I can't seem to get to the ok or cancel buttons. I know that they are present on the screen, but I can seem to get to them accessibly. What can I do? Mike Rochester, NY. P.S. other than this minor issue with sam encoder, (at least I hope it's minor), winamp is working fine otherwise. -- Joe Paton j...@vi-ability.demon.co.uk -- Joe Paton j...@vi-ability.demon.co.uk
