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Most of the AV receivers come integrated with headphone amplifiers and thus can be used occasionally for listening music through headphones. However, for habitual users of headphones and do possess an expensive set, then it is not advisable to plug them into your regular AV receiver or your home-theatre or computer systems. Reason being, the sound quality produced through such integrated systems is feeble, with hardly any bass or with muffled sounds instead of being amplified. So even if you possess an expensive AV receiver, it cannot perform as great a job as a decent quality specific headphone amplifier.

To judge the results for yourself, you can test a set of steeply priced headphones by plugging them into an AV receiver, an Apple iPod and an exclusive headphone amplifier and you will surely discern the difference. Undoubtedly, headphones perform their best in combination with a dedicated amplifier meant for headphones. Benchmark’s DAC1 USB is a highly recommended top-rated headphone amplifier.

Benchmark is a distinguished manufacturer of sophisticated and specialized audio equipment and is popular amongst music lovers and audiophiles. Its DAC1 USB model of headphone amplifier has additional features like a converter from digital to analogue (D/A) of 192kHz/24-bit, together with USB input, which enhance the sound quality. The headphone amp is also compatible with Mac OS X and Windows operating systems.

Another benefit is that the amp has a striking appearance, is compact and durable. The DAC1 USB couples very well with a Grado GS-1000 headphone producing a surround sound, enormous depth, superb high frequency and a great deep bass.

Do you have your favourite tracks on a cassette, but you can’t listen to them because they are non-transferable to digital players? If yes, then it’s time to get the Ads Tech Instant Music RDX-150 converter.

It’s basically a Vinyl and Cassette ripper which lets you extract the tracks from the cassette or vinyl, and change its format so that you can store it on your PC or any other digital media player. Just plug in the ADS Technologies Instant Music RDX-150 to the USB port of your PC and it’s ready to rip the songs from any analogue source to the most popular music formats including MP3, WAV and WMA (Windows Media 9 Audio) and AAC. Once you transform the tracks in to digital format you can use them with a variety of music players. Instant Music RDX-150 is an excellent choice for converting the analogue songs into crisp, high quality audio.

The best part of this device is that during format conversion the audio quality does not get deteriorated. Along with the main unit come the professional audio mixing softwares such as Nero Mix, Nero SoundTrax and Nero Wave editor 2 which offers lots of options to play with the songs.

Instant Music tech specs:

• RCA Stereo (Left and Right), SPDIF output
• RCA Stereo (Left and Right), SPDIF input
• RCA Stereo (Left and Right), SPDIF line in/line out
• Windows 98SE /ME /2000 /XP OS supported
• USB 1.1/2.0 compatible

The M4P convertor from NoteCable is a simple yet powerful audio converting tool, which is specially designed for virtual audio recording, and bypassing the DRM controls. The M4P converter first records the copy protected files such as M4P, AA, WMA while they are being played and then saves these recordings anywhere required as unprotected MP3 files.

The M4P converter allows you to convert any copy protected music to a simple MP3 within a few clicks, and to then play the files on any music device, such as an iPod, MP3 player, CD player like the D-NF340, mobile phone or PC without any kind of restrictions or DRM protection. The best part of this NoteCable MP4 converter is that it is completely legal and abides by all the copy protection rules and measures.

M4P converter automatically converts a large number of audio files simultaneously in the background. It is totally independent of the sound card, thereby granting the user the convenience of listening to other music while the recording is in progress. The converter’s virtual audio cable can be compared to the physical soundcard with a hardwired input and output. Recording and converting any audio files using the NoteCable M4P converter is quite easy and intuitive.

The NoteCable M4P converter supports various formats such as WAV, MP3, WAM and also almost all media player software such as iTunes, RealOne Real Player, Napster and Windows Media Player. Whenever there is a problem running a track on the MP3 player, the NoteCable M4P converter comes to the rescue. All the transfers that are made using this converter are all done digitally, making sure that there is no loss of sound quality.

The Power Audio Cutter is an easy to use and powerful digital audio cutter or converter. The key function of the power audio cutter is to cut a piece of a large audio file and convert it to a new audio file of a different format like mp3, wav, etc. It supports mp3, wav, amr, wma, ma4, aac, mp4 au, ac3 audio formats.

The Power Audio cutter, as the name suggests, is an editing tool designed to chop or cut audio files in order to get the desired size. Cutting the audio file is quite simple. First, select the source file and the output path; then set the start and the stop time and finally press the cut button. Besides the cutting of the audio file, the software also performs file conversion. This means that if you select a different file format for the output, in a single operation, the software will cut and convert the file.

A small id3 tag editor is built in the audio cutter where the audio information of the original file is stored. This id3 information stored in the tag editor will be created or written in a new audio file. In other words, it can be said that the id3 information stored in these tags is not lost after the audio cutter cuts the audio file.

The main requirements of the Power Audio Cutter are DirectX 8.1 or higher, real player and quick time player. It has two major limitations, firstly nag screen and secondly it is allowed to be used for 15 uses only. This piece of software is particularly useful if you have a media player, such as the Philips SA5285 8GB MP4 Player, that cannot only read your data in certain file formats. It is compatible with Windows NT/98/Me/XP/2K/2003.

To conclude, Power Audio cutter is a powerful editor which cuts or converts an audio file of a particular format to a new audio file of a different format with great precision and most importantly, without losing on the quality.