Posts by hypersoar

AAC (along with most post-mp3 formats such as ogg and WMA) uses much more efficient compression than mp3. As a result, it can achieve similar quality at roughly half the bitrate. AAC is not lossless. Lossless formats compress most...

I saw someone at my school showing off his Skullcandy headphones with a bass-booster. People seemed very impressed by them. After deciding there was nothing I could do about it, I put my q-jays in and retreated to my place of quiet...

The explanation I heard for no EQ was about battery life. The components required for EQ draw current, even when not in use. So they decided to leave them out. The Zune has a much faster processor than the iPod (not counting...

You can always "borrow" some IEMs from a local store. A while ago, I wanted IEMs for a trip that was in a few days. I bought a pair of Shure SE210s for $150 at BB. I knew that was way too high for those, but I didn't care....

The price isn't about what it cost to make them, it's about how much people think they're worth. If these are significantly better than any $1k cans available, people who can afford it will buy it. If someone else can make headphones of...

I had a similar (except not really) experience with my Zune premium earbuds. I had to send my q-jays off to Sweden for replacement, and I was without them for a month. After a week or two, the Zune's started sounding okay to me. I go...

What are you using to drive the headphones? 32 ohms is about what stock ipod earbuds are. I don't know of anything that can't handle them.

Can you drive the k701s with a stock tangentsoft cmoy?

For $50, you can't get much. A high-gain cmoy should just about be able to drive those.

I have a pair of Q-Jays that I really enjoy, but I would like a pair of headphones for home use when I don't necessarily want to block out everything going on around me. I do most of my listening from my Zune. I have a cmoy that doesn't...