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Head-Fi Gear
- Headphone Inventory
- ✪ = Using regularly now
Stax Lambda Nova Signature
✪ Stax Vintage SR-5NB Gold
✪ Sennheiser HD-800 (balanced using DIY CryoParts OCCC cable or APSv3)
✪ Grado HF-2
✪ Ultimate Ears Triple.fi 10 with Null Audio cable.
MB Quart QP55X (first ever high quality phones).
Sennheiser HD-424 (My father's vintage pair)
«Gone:»
Stax SR-007 "Omega 2" MKI (borrowed)
Audio Technica ESW10JPN
Sennheiser HD600 with Zu cable.
Etymotic ER6i
MB Quart QP250
Sennheiser HD-650
Sennheiser PX200
Ultrasone Edition 9 w/APureSound V3 cable.
Denon D5000 (with mulga cups and full Markl mods but not re-cabled)
Audio Technica ATH-A1000X - Headphone Amp Inventory
- ✪ Audio-gd Phoenix
✪ Audio-gd C2C upgrade version (with Goldpoint attenuator)
✪ Fitz-modified Stax SRD-X.
«Gone:»
Stax 007t (borrowed, goes well with the SR-5NB Gold and Lambda Nova Signature)
Stax SR-717
Meier Corda Move MK1
Little Dot MKV
Audio-gd C2C (original version with silver hand-made case)
Borrowed/tried:
Luxman P-1 - Source Inventory
- ✪ Apple MacBook Pro
✪ Audio-gd Reference 1
✪ Audio-gd Reference 3
✪ Audio-gd Compass (with my XBox)
✪ Onkyo DV-SP502 SACD player
✪ iPhone 3GS
iPod Classic 160 GB
iPod 5G 30 GB
iPod 2G Nano
CryoParts PCLink II
«Gone:»
Northstar M192
Lavry DA-10
ZERO DAC w/HDAM
Apogee Duet
M-Audio Fast Track Pro (screw M-Audio's crap drivers)
Audiotrak Prodigy Cube (died)
Borrowed/tried:
Benchmark DAC 1
Marantz Project D-1
Assemblage DAC 3
Nakamichi Dragon DAC - Cable Inventory
- ✪ Nordost Heimdall XLR
✪ Van Den Hul Orchid XLR & RCA
Van Den Hul Thunderline XLR
✪ Van Den Hul The First Ultimate MKII RCA
Van Den Hul The Second RCA
Van Den Hul D300 w/DIY plugs
✪ SAEC SN-1903 RCA
✪ Van den Hul Optocoupler
Sony 3m Mini-Optical to Toslink cable
✪ Canare 75 Ohm digital cables
Audioquest Mini
Harmony Gold mini to RCA (some Dick Smith cable that wasn't half bad).
Gone:
Van Den Hul Flexicon RCA - Power-Related Components
- ✪ PS Audio xStream Statement (thanks Patrick82)
✪ DIY CryoParts CryoMax III power cable with Furutech plugs.
✪ Audio-gd power cables. - Other Audio Equipment
- ✪ Parasound Zamp
Luxman LV-103U integrated amp
✪ Paradigm Titans
Airport Express
Koss Hold-A-Fone headphone desk hangers.
Some Kensington portable speaker thing.
«Gone:»
Bose Micro Music Monitors. - Audio-Related Tweaks
- Herbies Ultrasonic Tube Dampers (in the 007t)
- Gear-Fi (Favorite Non-Audio Gear & Gadgets)
- MacBook Pro
Mac Mini
Nikon D80 with 18-200mm and 35mm lenses.
Panasonic HDC-SC5
XBox 360
About Me
- About Currawong
- Biography
- I'm an Australian living in western Japan. Computers became boring, so I got into head-fi instead.
- Location
- Fukuoka, Japan (was Australia)
- Interests
- Computers, hi-fi, gadgets.
- Occupation
- Fixing computers, building web sites and terrorising small Japanese children with English.
- Music Preferences
- Jazz, jazz and more jazz.
Mozart, Bach, Chopin and other classical.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
John Lee Hooker
Soundgarden
Stone Temple Pilots
Van Halen
Schpongle
Art of Noise
Moby
Amon Tobin
Ayub Ogada
Tom Waits
Too much else to mention right now. - Interests (non-headphone)
- Stax Baby/HF-2 baby (see pic) and the rest of my family.
Self-realisation (don't get me started).
I'm vegetarian, don't drink, smoke or take drugs (except the occasional coffee, which I really should quit).
- Head-Fi Gear
- Headphone Inventory
- ✪ = Using regularly now
Stax Lambda Nova Signature
✪ Stax Vintage SR-5NB Gold
✪ Sennheiser HD-800 (balanced using DIY CryoParts OCCC cable or APSv3)
✪ Grado HF-2
✪ Ultimate Ears Triple.fi 10 with Null Audio cable.
MB Quart QP55X (first ever high quality phones).
Sennheiser HD-424 (My father's vintage pair)
«Gone:»
Stax SR-007 "Omega 2" MKI (borrowed)
Audio Technica ESW10JPN
Sennheiser HD600 with Zu cable.
Etymotic ER6i
MB Quart QP250
Sennheiser HD-650
Sennheiser PX200
Ultrasone Edition 9 w/APureSound V3 cable.
Denon D5000 (with mulga cups and full Markl mods but not re-cabled)
Audio Technica ATH-A1000X - Headphone Amp Inventory
- ✪ Audio-gd Phoenix
✪ Audio-gd C2C upgrade version (with Goldpoint attenuator)
✪ Fitz-modified Stax SRD-X.
«Gone:»
Stax 007t (borrowed, goes well with the SR-5NB Gold and Lambda Nova Signature)
Stax SR-717
Meier Corda Move MK1
Little Dot MKV
Audio-gd C2C (original version with silver hand-made case)
Borrowed/tried:
Luxman P-1 - Source Inventory
- ✪ Apple MacBook Pro
✪ Audio-gd Reference 1
✪ Audio-gd Reference 3
✪ Audio-gd Compass (with my XBox)
✪ Onkyo DV-SP502 SACD player
✪ iPhone 3GS
iPod Classic 160 GB
iPod 5G 30 GB
iPod 2G Nano
CryoParts PCLink II
«Gone:»
Northstar M192
Lavry DA-10
ZERO DAC w/HDAM
Apogee Duet
M-Audio Fast Track Pro (screw M-Audio's crap drivers)
Audiotrak Prodigy Cube (died)
Borrowed/tried:
Benchmark DAC 1
Marantz Project D-1
Assemblage DAC 3
Nakamichi Dragon DAC - Cable Inventory
- ✪ Nordost Heimdall XLR
✪ Van Den Hul Orchid XLR & RCA
Van Den Hul Thunderline XLR
✪ Van Den Hul The First Ultimate MKII RCA
Van Den Hul The Second RCA
Van Den Hul D300 w/DIY plugs
✪ SAEC SN-1903 RCA
✪ Van den Hul Optocoupler
Sony 3m Mini-Optical to Toslink cable
✪ Canare 75 Ohm digital cables
Audioquest Mini
Harmony Gold mini to RCA (some Dick Smith cable that wasn't half bad).
Gone:
Van Den Hul Flexicon RCA - Power-Related Components
- ✪ PS Audio xStream Statement (thanks Patrick82)
✪ DIY CryoParts CryoMax III power cable with Furutech plugs.
✪ Audio-gd power cables. - Other Audio Equipment
- ✪ Parasound Zamp
Luxman LV-103U integrated amp
✪ Paradigm Titans
Airport Express
Koss Hold-A-Fone headphone desk hangers.
Some Kensington portable speaker thing.
«Gone:»
Bose Micro Music Monitors. - Audio-Related Tweaks
- Herbies Ultrasonic Tube Dampers (in the 007t)
- Gear-Fi (Favorite Non-Audio Gear & Gadgets)
- MacBook Pro
Mac Mini
Nikon D80 with 18-200mm and 35mm lenses.
Panasonic HDC-SC5
XBox 360
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Signature
- 𝄞 Before you buy headphones: A hopefully helpful guide for newbies 𝄢 Why do I need an amp (for full-sized headphones)? 𝄡
♯ Spectrum showing the terms we use in audio ♭ What is jitter and what does it mean? ♮ The Audio-gd Compass FAQ 𝄡
Who created the first headphone amp?
MacBook Pro → Audio-gd Reference 3+1 → Phoenix → Sennheiser HD-800, Grado HF-2, Symphones Magnums or Parasound Zamp → Paradigm Titans + Van Den Hul or DIY cabling.
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An interesting thread from 2007 was bumped on this very subject.
Short answer seems to be: Stax in 1960 with the SRA-4S, as electrostats require a special amp:
but for dynamic phones, excluding pro gear with headphone outs, probably the Sure Solo-phone.
After that, Grado designed the HP-1 for the HP-1000s just before HeadRoom...
Short answer seems to be: Stax in 1960 with the SRA-4S, as electrostats require a special amp:
but for dynamic phones, excluding pro gear with headphone outs, probably the Sure Solo-phone.
After that, Grado designed the HP-1 for the HP-1000s just before HeadRoom...
Posted in Sound Science
I wrote this up for a thread about Bose and thought it worth saving.
I figured out how many headphone manufacturers get away with selling low-end and lower-quality headphones, especially in the case of Bose and Monster, who do so at higher prices: Most cheap or rubbish headphones are seriously rolled off in the treble and 2-10k region that, if it weren't so, would reveal the shortcomings of the design, as that's where a lot of critical vocals are, and where women especially are most...
I figured out how many headphone manufacturers get away with selling low-end and lower-quality headphones, especially in the case of Bose and Monster, who do so at higher prices: Most cheap or rubbish headphones are seriously rolled off in the treble and 2-10k region that, if it weren't so, would reveal the shortcomings of the design, as that's where a lot of critical vocals are, and where women especially are most...
Posted in FAQs & Summaries
I thought the discussion in this thread was worthy of posting, and I know I'll want to recall what I wrote later, so I've included here my and other peoples' answers. My answers aren't quoted.
[A]nything that converts a digital signal to analogue is a DAC. People often refer to a sound card that plugs in via USB instead of inside your computer as an "external sound card". These have connections for mice and instruments and are used for amateur music making. Many companies...
[A]nything that converts a digital signal to analogue is a DAC. People often refer to a sound card that plugs in via USB instead of inside your computer as an "external sound card". These have connections for mice and instruments and are used for amateur music making. Many companies...
It seems that the eXStata DIY electrostat amp is already exceeding expectations, using only $350 or so of parts, including the case. HeadphoneAddict has provided us with a short review mid-thread thus:
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Originally Posted by HeadphoneAddict
The eXStata is a great amp, but it was so highly detailed that we could hear jitter (grainy griity in the highs) with the Apple TV on Saturday, which at first was more difficult to pick up with the GES until 3 hours into the meet, making us have to change the transport to a Macbook
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That Stax one, I wonder...
agreed with most above...
The purpose of my post...
Hey thought i'd chime...
