Hi all,    I currently own the Head-Direct RE2's which I got after I didn't like the CX-300 and my maximo i490 were lost. I like the RE2 but think of eventually upgrading to better IEMs.    Now the Klipsch Image S2's are available for $19.99 with free shipping from buy.com, so I am...

sansa fuze or 4G nano

its not about other ppl seeing it, really. its about me seeing it! Pretty electronics is not like pretty clothes, its visually pleasing for me, not for others around me.

yes, i am also grappling between these two players. it was hands down sansa fuze 4 or 8 gb due to the microphone, recorder and especially the microsd slot. But once the new 4G ipod nano came out, it became an issue of aesthetics. the nano just looks a lot better, the problem is just between the...

congrats on ur new ad700s. I have a pair as well and I am very happy with them. though i have never experienced itchiness with them, i hear some ppl do, i guess it varies a little, tho most ppl think they're extremely comfortable compared to other headphones which may have much more clamping...

i remember some ppl liked the im-390 which is pretty much the same as this im-490. i bought the black version of this maximo im-490 when it was on woot. the tips r substandard, so i recently got cx-300b from a friend. now i use the sennheiser tips on the im-490 and i like them better than the...

if you do not like closed phones, then you mean AD900, not A900. A900 is closed. AD900 is open

i was looking for my first foray into better headphones. i was looking at grados, SR-60 and SR-80. Then i heard they were very much rock headphones and didn't have much soundstage. so then i was considering ms-1 and HD555, but heard that the ATH-AD700s were better than the HD555 in every way...

yay i got it right too! had to listen to it a few times. i'm using onboard audio to my friend's HD595, which i'm trying to compare to my AD700s. the castanets on the 320kbps sounded like more real instruments while on the 128 kbps, it just sounded like sounds. (articulate, i kno)

i got mine from newegg for $103 + tax = $112, free shipping. newegg has them for $103 + $6 shipping but they are out of stock now. i saw them recently on buy.com for $110 (free shipping). also buy.com says i can get $20 off purchases of over $100 if i use google checkout, so that makes it really...

not a fair comparison as they are on different tiers. except the k701 would need to be paired with a very good amp to drive optimally and would need to be matched with an amp carefully

i am under the impression that both the HD580s and the K501s both need good amps to drive well to get optimal SQ. and both r out of production. i have a friend upstairs who has both the HD580s and K501s, but he has a high quality nonportable amp. i think u'd be happy with ATH-AD700s cuz they...

x2 on the audio technica AD700's. i think they are better than the 555s for classical. less bass quantity tho.

headroom says the isolation on the hd-25s is -18. i'm going to assume thats -18 dB, which i guess is pretty close to IEMs where can the hd-25's be had for under $150? also i think the recabling really had a large effect on the SQ rankings. how much cost would a decent recabling add?

the ad700's aren't tight, but i don't feel they will fall off when i turn or nod my head. my head is a tad small. i use four clicks on either side of the PX100, so my audiophile friend says my head is small. most ppl i kno have bigger heads than i, and we're not big guys. i'm a 5' 8" skinny...