Quote: Originally Posted by CountChoculaBot I don't trust the first guy kind of. Mostly because he's from Hong Kong, though. but you should. I bought the OPAMPs last week from him. Most guys in Hong Kong are serious (HK is not China scams)

d5000 with Musical Fidelity x-can v3 here. Sound is very good. I just received Herbie's audio ultrasonic 9 dampers for my 6922 tubes and cannot believe what I'm hearing with them. If you have a tube amp, you can fine tune the amount of bass of the D5000 by placing the dampers in the...

Quote: Originally Posted by Gradofan2 And... I would guess the new Musical Fidelity XCAN v8, or the XCAN v3, would also, though they are tube hybrid amps. The XCAN v3 sounds good with the Grados (32 ohms). Correct The D5000 is very good with a hybrid amp like the x-can v3...

Quote: Originally Posted by Cool_Torpedo the stock D5000 sound more bassy and inducing headache (I can listen to the DX1000 for hours without any fatigue) and I'm pretty convinced it's for the bass being resonant, distorted and badly controlled. There is probably another reason...

winamp. Don't know why some find it slow. I launch winamp in less than 1 second on my vista pc. Very fast, superb interface (bento) and great asio / flac support.

Try the Denon D5000. Not harsh, not sibilant. Very good out of the box. ps: get a amp.

I "love" my denon D5000 headphones with my MF x-can v3 amplifier connected to the prelude. Maybe you need a AMP for your SR80. a darkvoice perhaps ? note: do not activate the headphone optimization in the x-fi panel

I want to connected my PC xfi prelude with toslink: -> DAC (toslink in to XLR balanced out) - > tube pre-amp with XLR in/out -> Dynaudio BM5A active monitors XLR in I was thinking of the apogee mini-dac and using a little dot MKIV SE as a pre-amp however it doesn't have balanced XLR...

audio creation mode 96khz bit matched. Not enough bass ?? Launch winamp, add ASIO support (asio.dll) + resampling at 96khz in ultra mode. Another world, really. I use it with my dynaudio BM5A active monitors (waiting my tube pre-amp and my OPA627 opamps for my perfect home studio setup)...

I use winamp with asio + upsampling at 96khz in ultra mode. Sounds good.

I have a HD650, beyer 990 and a ultrasone 780 and just received the DENON D5000 The D5000 is fantastic. Compared to HD650: Better soundstage and deep/warm bass. no veil (mids) Compared to Beyer 990: the Denon sounds like beyer with better bass, differents mids but more organic overall...

Quote: Originally Posted by Deckard79 nah mate, don't worry. I read a thread on here about counterfeits and it suddenly occurred to me I could get stung too... some of the stuff on this forum is terrifyng. How can ebay get away with such lax controls? fake grado? where? Just...

Is this viral advertising for a ebay seller?

I thought OP was for output filtering. curious too.

maybe the line out in the prelude is "variable out" instead of "fixed out". If bit-perfect is activated I'm not sure it is important. Correct me if I'm wrong. note: Prelude -> optical out -> dedicated DAC (Benchmark DAC1, Xeces ...) -> headphone amp... Prelude (DAC +OPAMP) ->...