Posts by wordfool

having sold my full-size closed phones for something more portable I settled on the AKG 518LE (mainly because Amazon was selling the red ones for $45).... sound is great, perhaps a tad lacking in detail but I'm happy enough considering...

yep, still got 'em... not planning on driving up the 80 any time soon, but priority mail will get to you in a day and I'm happy to knock a little off the asking price since you're kinda local :)   Drop me a PM if still...

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Selling these great-condition SRH840 because I no longer need closed headphones (not bothering anyone and need to hear the doorbell and phone) so just bought myself some DT990s for when Grados get too uncomfortable...

I'm having no similar problems with either FF3.6 or IE8 (am posting this using FF), so perhaps it's a local Chrome issue. I'll play around some more with Chome and other factors like plugins and firewall etc. (and see if log files shed...

Wow... I'm miffed that the regular turbines don't have proper strain relief at the bud, but it looks like even the beefier strain relief of the Pros ain't relieving anything except itself! Monster does have good CS and warranty...

Good news... if Amazon had stocked them before xmas I would have bought some... as it was, I didn't want to take part in the international mailing lottery, so bought another brand.

As a follow-up, could it be linked to cookie blocking in some way? I have not changed cookie permissions for Head-fi recently AFAIK, but have always been selectively blocking third-party cookies.   When I reply to a post and...

Windows 7 Pro (x86) and both Chrome 6.0.472.63 and the latest release I installed tonight (8.0.552.237)   The only extensions I have are Vanilla and Web Developer (neither of which are newly installed). The only plugins I have...

They look almost identical to the 840s, except in silver. The improved headband and velour pads will do a lot to improve the comfort compared to the 840s IMO... sound-wise the only improvement to the 840s I could see happening would be...