Quote:   Thanks for the hint. I wrote on philips facebook pages, and I was contacted by the same Kevin, how's been very kind and told me they will get in touch soon to solve the matter.   I'm still hoping for a happy ending, cause until a few days ago I was really enjoying my purchase.

Quote:   I haven't yet. There is an online chat on Philips website, I chatted directly with them, and they confirmed what I'd been told at the Philips center. I will write them later this evening, but I guess that rules are rules, and the people that read mails are the same that answer in...

A few days ago the elastic band got broken; I purchased my Fidelio X1 about 2 months ago from an Amazon seller, the cans are covered by 2 years warranty, so I thought that I would easily get them repaired or replaced. Today I crossed the city to visit a Philips authorized center where they told...

During the last weekend I homemade a new cable. The new one has very low impedance, my multimeter basically reads zero, but I don't perceive any sound difference

Quote: My multimeter reads 1.4 for the stock cable. Don't have any other cable around, but I'm buying another one with lower impedance to check if there is any sound improvement

Quote:   They don't perform well IMHO... unless you enjoy some bass in classical music. I've bought the x1 to use them with my laptop because of its low impedance and low price (I'm italian and got them for less than 200 euros), and while I'm rather happy with the cans while listening...

Thanks for the hints. Right now I'm away from home and I won't be back home to check the equipment until saturday. As soon as I can I will check more thoroughly the hardware, hoping to find the reason for the weird behavior.

My setup is the same as in the 80s, so I was expecting everything to work (almost) exactly as back in the days.   Yes, of course the adapter is a Stax SRD-4. I used both a Philips table CD player and the computer soundcard as sources, the amp (Kenwood, but I can't tell you the exact model as...

Hello everybody,   I own those old Stax SR40 phones since when I was a child in the late 80s, I'd been using them for a few years for listening to classical music till mid 90s, then put them away. Yesterday I decided to put them back use again, so I connected all the hardware and tested them...