Posts by dlorde

Quote: Originally Posted by Sovkiller Guys sorry to water your soup but the SA5000 is pretty anemic on the bass dpt, the performance leave a lot to be desired. The bass is good on mine - very smooth and deep....

There's no doubt in my mind that these 'phones need a good amplifier to shine. I bought my SA5000's to replace a pair of HD 650s that I found disappointingly bass-heavy and even boomy. The Sonys are so much clearer and cleaner I'm...

The stax sr-001 mk2 certainly look like earbuds... At that price they ought to be way better than the B&O A8s!

Quote: Where the heck is dlorde- he/she supported those headphones a lot (and had compared them to the Etymotics - yes, the Etymotics- even though she said that the Etys were better, he/she still liked the B&O's after...

I found the Etymotic patent specification in the American patents site online and posted it on Headwize. There are diagrams and a full description of the internals. It's now in their Design Showcase...

Blighty - Nice to find someone prepared to experiment Just a quick comment, I found the A8s seemed to improve at the lower end over several months (I didn't explicitly burn them in). They are also quite sensitive to being correctly...

I use the B&O A8s and think they're significantly better than the other earbuds I've tried (both in sound and comfort). I use them where I can't use the Ety 4Ps (portable situations like walking, running, gym, etc). It's...

I use the HeadRoom TotalAirHead with my B&O A8s, and I'm reasonably happy with it. It's not by any means the best headphone amp out there, but you get what you pay for... The big advantage I find is that it's very portable (about...

viciouscarrot - I ordered from Headroom, but it's an expensive business. On top of Headroom's FedEx shipping charge you also get a bill from Customs & Excise of 20% of the total value (3% duty and 17.5% VAT) that FedEx send to you....

I often use my Ety 4Ps with an MP3 player, and although it is true that you can hear artefacts and imperfections (especially background noise) that are inaudible with less revealing headphones, I find the superior sound quality and...