This may be a bit off topic but after a number of years and thousands of dollars of gear I feel it my obligation to share whenever I come across something inexpensive that shines.  For me thats the DT-150 (250ohm), with Shure Alcantara earpads, fed from my LG V10 phone.  Its difficult to find a...

  I heard an upper / mid bass hump on the DT-150's but I think it was entirely due to a slight leak with the seal on the stock pads.  The alcantaras seal really well and consequently the bass sounds balanced with def more sub bass (not anywhere near boomy).  But I doubt I was hearing what the...

Ya that retro looks amazing.  I'd put one in every room if I could.  I think the addition of the tube amp with the burr-brown iFi sound has got to be something special.  I'm holding out for the mini/pro device they have on the horizon to use with my 2 channel system and for headphone listening...

Amazingly really.  Oddly with the source material I am using (TIDAL cd quality flac via idevice) I prefer the nano to the micro.  As I mentioned I have two primary classes of sources, High res:  192flac and DSD files and Mid res: TIDAL and Deezer CD quality flac files.  For high res material my...

Just dawned on me you might of meant the headphone cable.  It's just the stock cable all the extra cable is off camera.  I throw all the slack in a backpack or coiled on a table or whatever.  If I use the DT-150s outside it will be somewhere I am stationary/sitting so no big deal with extra...

The white part of the cable is the Apple CCK (camera connection kit) with lightning on one end and female USB A on the other (link below).  The black part is a USB 2.0 adapter from Fry's electronics and is USB A male on one side and USB B male on the other.  I originally wanted a USB 3.0 adapter...

My go anywhere DT-150 rig...    

Not at all.  The change in measurement in terms of how close the driver is to the ear is tiny.  Oddly as I type this I am hearing Foo Fighters and theres some sibilance but the DT-150's have some sibilance to begin with and I think it mixes in with their character.  In terms of change I heard a...

I've had my DT-150's for just about two weeks now and I absolutely love them.   Lorspeaker, since I'm new to the whole headphone thing and am not necessarily sure what I want, I decided to base this purchase on one word you used to describe the DT-150's a while back and that was "bodacious"...

I am thoroughly blown away how the sound of my LCD-2's has changed after 4-5 hours of 4W punishment.  The treble issue has gone away almost completely and the mids may have had a tiny amount of grain that has also gone away.  Bass fullness has increased and I am impressed.  I still hear aspects...

Awesome. Thanks for the suggestion!   Oddly I don't really know much about the latest LCD-2's in terms of break in but since I'm in the middle of analyzing all this stuff I did a lot more testing with the 4000mw setting on my micro and definitely like it better.  Consequently I left it in this...

I did.  The turbo mode actually sounded a little more mid-forward.  But the iFI gear has analog stage volume controls and therefore iFi suggests a minimum usable volume range for channel balance, proper sound, etc.  For the levels I like to listen at the turbo mode was below this range.  I heard...

The iDSD has a number of power settings but I contacted iFi and they suggested normal for the LCD-2's which is 1000mw.  There's also "turbo" which is 4000mw but then it becomes an issue of too loud at the lower range of the volume control.  They did say they felt 1W was on the lower end of the...

Thank you for the detailed explanation.  This finally makes sense.  I wonder if Audeze has a "veil" mod they can do for me.  Based on your info I have a feeling I would be better suited to LCD-2's one or two revisions ago.  I should say the LCD-2's have done one awesome thing for me and that is...

Recently purchased a pair of Audeze LCD-2's with bamboo and microsuede and am thoroughly enjoying them.  I have to agree with the quality level of the stock cable, they definitely cut some costs there.  The cable is flimsy, cheaply insulated, and the connectors are a joke.  There are the...