My wife has an iPod Nano that she uses to listen to audiobooks while she works. She ONLY listens to audiobooks, NEVER music. Her work environment is pretty loud, so she'd like to move to something that provides some isolation from the outside sounds. Right now, she's using the white iBuds that...

I'm in a position where I'm rebuilding my system basically from scratch. I'm also in a HUGE room now, which I've never had to deal with before. In the long run, I'm going to buy some large high-end floorstanders but I won't have the money to do so for quite a while. In the meantime, I need...

I have a headphone setup that has been working well for me. It's fed by a Mac with iTunes+BitPerfect outputting to a HRT MSII+ DAC. The problem is the Mac is now an ex computer. It was apparently pining for the fjords and now its metabolic processes are of interest only to historians. Anyway...

I set up my first headphone system about 6 months ago. Early on, I noticed a sort of strange sound that I wrote off to being something else. I finally got annoyed enough at it to take the time to try to isolate which component it's coming from. The difficulty with testing is that I only have one...

A few months ago, I switched to using a USB DAC (HRT MusicStreamer II+) as my primary source. Fed from my MacBook Pro, sometimes the results were absolutely stunning and sometimes the results were absolutely stunningly bad. It seemed that the audio could be great one day and horrible a few hours...

OK, so basically I'm looking at some Sennheisers. New, I can't afford the. Refurbished, I can. Is there any reason no to get a refurbished set of cans?

I have been semi-serious about listening to music for about a decade. I have a stereo system with which I am (mostly) content consisting of a variety of sources, a Bottlehead Foreplay (original with all the hop ups) preamp, and a Cambridge Audio P500 amp driving Axiom Audio M22Ti speakers. Like...