Am I the first to notice on Audiocubes that Panasonic has evidently done a high-end version of the HTX7, dubbed the HTX9? They're claiming better SQ, improved bass, more comfortable pads, and the specs show wider FR range and slightly higher sensitivity. I think people will be happy to see a...

Can you call it a meet if there are only two people there? Maybe you can if the table includes Stax SR-Sigma Stax 303 Stax SR-Lambda Stax SR-Gamma Stax SR-X mkIII Peerless MB PMB500 Yamaha YH-100 (modded) Yamaha YH-1 (modded) Yamaha YH-1 (stock) Fostex T20v2 (modded) Ety...

Well, I've been thinking of adding some mid-price dynamic in-ears as a balance against my depodded im716, which are great but a little limited for some situations: they only produce a full bass response at higher volume, i.e. not suited to longer sessions, and sometimes they feel a little thin...

Most of us around here are aware of the JVC DX1000 woodies, which are held by some to be among the best dynamics on the market. A keen reader lately would also have spotted news of two new high/mid-end JVC canalphones (one of them wooden) and a semi high-end aluminum earclip that at least one...

Well, I happened to have a couple of hours to kill in Greenwich Village today, and so I thought what better way to do it than to finally check out the audiocubes store. First off, the store is not the amazing headphone mecca it ought to be. I've seen chain electronics stores with better...

Anybody other than me interested in the Fisker Hybrid that will be introduced at the Detroit auto show in a few days? It's a design by Henrik Fisker, who did the Aston Martin DB9 and BMW Z8, and the company is claiming some remarkable things: simple plug-in electricals, mention of a potential...

Time for me to eat my words. I've gone on record saying that no portable player has sufficient power to drive virtually any decent pair of headphones, or something to that effect. I decided to test whether I was really right when my dap developed an occasional intermittent channel due to long...

It seems that for anyone trying to set up a dac and amp rig for a computer-based system, there is a major sweet spot around $500-600: enough to get a respectable home amp, tube or solid state as you like (a Darkvoice or an Arietta, say), along with a passably good hifi DAC (a Zhaolu 3.0, Great...

I just moved back the the US a couple of months ago, and today again I'm deeply annoyed at the rapacious pricing of brick-and-mortar retail in this country, especially here in NYC, (edit- when it comes to certain small items). My problem is that pricing is based only on the maximum people can be...

It seems like nobody has posted this yet, so I though I ought to. I'm pasting in from the Go-Vibe website: "Latest News: The Go-Vibe V6 is sold out! Details on the upcoming V7 will be posted here shortly when the new amp is available for purchase. The V7 will be limited to a run of just...

Hey all. Kind of annoyed right now as I sold a pair of vintage Senns on ebay.de, and the buyer just wrote to tell me that my description was way off and he wants me to do something about it. It seems he expected that the original earpads I said are "still good" would be like new and not kind of...

So weird. Found them by accident here, listed under health and beauty: hearing aids. Technically it's the cheapest headphone amp available, and unlike most bargain amps, it comes with a microphone and a pair of pre-broken stock buds. Not too shabby. The boilerplate: "This device is...

Hello all, a more or less naive question for you: is it feasible to try to refit a ca. 1990-95 cd player as a DAC? Is it feasible to decouple the transport section from the DAC section of the player? Or are there fundamental reasons why this isn't really practical? I like the idea of having a...

(I just edited the thread title to reflect the direction it took) I recently bought an Echo Indigo to upgrade from my Turtle Beach Audio Advantage Micro as laptop dac. I'd been wanting to move up from my cheapo TBAAM for some time, particularly since I realized after an A/B test how deeply...

Review: 8 European full-size open dynamics 1985-1995 I am a grad student in design history. This makes me doubly interested in old headphones: they appeal both to my imagination and to the limited capacity of my wallet. When I first came to Head-Fi, I found that information was thin on the...

Simple question, what in your experience has the greater effect on sound quality, the DAC being used or the bitrate and encoding method of the files coming into that DAC? I ask because I've noticed lately on a couple albums where I have copies both in 64kbps WMA and 192kbps LAME-encoded mp3...

Hello all, It's time for me to face the fact that my TBAAM doesn't hold a candle to my CDP, and it isn't a problem with the files themselves, which are fine. I'm trying to find a way to bring my laptop up to snuff-- not to achieve the pinnacle of great sound, but to take as big a jump towards...

Welcome to Head-fi. I won't say the second part; you'll hear it soon enough. You've probably lurked long enough to know that we don't like Bose around here, and maybe you've noticed the name of a headphone or two that we seem to like. You've decided it's time to take the plunge and ask for...

Here's a curiosity I just happened across while browsing ebay Deutschland: http://cgi.ebay.de/Schoener-seltener...QQcmdZViewItem NAD model 16's. Anybody ever come across these things? They've got retro-sharpness in spades.

Thanks to a post by MonkeyA**Sucka in another thread, I think we may finally have the answer to who was the original designer of the headphone that was licensed as the Sennheiser CX300, the Creative EP-630, the Sharp MD33, and the Edifier H260, with minor changes in every case, and which is also...

After reading page 66 of the long review attached to this thread, I felt like I might have an answer to a question that had been nagging at me. Is the reason that Grado headphones sound fundamentally different from their Austro-German competitors largely the difference between free-field and...

Hello all, It seems to me that the impoverished student class of head-fiers (of whom I am alas still one) could benefit from the august knowledge of our elders on the matter of OLD HI-FI CANS. It should be common knowledge by now that beat-up ex-studio AKG K240M's are dirt cheap and...

Hello all, I've been browsing for weeks, and finally signed up to ask a question: where can I get some replacement earpads (Ohrpolstern, auf Deutsch) for my old 240M? You'd think that these would be easy to find as old 240s are thick on the ground, but I've been amazed at the unhelpfulness...