I just received a new set of pads today, ordered direct from Sennheiser. This is the box they shipped in: I was actually kind of shocked. If you had to steal one package quickly from an open truck or mailroom it just screams "something valuiable and easily resalable is in here". If this...

I am looking for a Bluetooth->SPIDF/Coax converter to use with a DAC. I have two simple requirements. Doesn't automatically power off if no transmitter is present Doesn't look hideous This is shockingly hard to find. #1 seems to eliminate all battery-powered Bluetooth receivers, even if...

I am looking for a set of earplugs for a concert, and I heard there were ones designed specifically for musicians that had a flat frequency response.  Without requiring a custom mold.   I thought these might actually be hard to find, but after some googling I have the opposite problem -- there...

I need a good, transparent Ground Loop isolator, and from searching previous threads the most highly recommended one was the Xitel GLI1-A1.  The problem is that I cannot find it in stock anywhere.   Does anyone have a good backup recommendation?  I am trying to stay around a $25-$75 budget...

At work I use a combination of Pandora and Rhapsody for my music,  Pandora for "radio" and Rhapsody when I want to hear a particular album.  It's shocking how large the difference is between Pandora One (192K AAC) versus . . . whatever Rhapsody is using, which to my ears sounds like the 128K cbr...

Every once in a while I get the itch to try some new gear and end up back here at Head-fi.  The last time I left The Denon AH-DX000 series was considered some of the best closed headphones on the market, and then markl started raving about the mods he did to his D5000's and these cans shot up...

I am trying to find a tube amp for work.  My ideal candidate would be fairly compact width (since it would reside on top of my workstation), integrated DAC (but not an absolute requirement), and no exposed tubes.   It's that last requirement that really is the problem, since most tube amps...

I am trying to find a good IEM to replace my incredibly old Sennheiser CX300.  Tonight is the first night I've done any serious research on IEMs, but I've spent a couple hours looking over the forum and chasing links across the internet.   I've pretty much settled on one of these two IEMs. ...

I work as a programmer in possibly the worst environment. I am surrounded by people who need to talk all day as part of their job, with TVs on in the background that need to be on. I also cannot stand the physical comfort of IEMs. I am looking for the headphones with the best possible...

I'm sorry, but search is failing me. Does anyone know if there is a thread (or can give a brief synopsis) of the OK2 vs. OK3? Really want to make this purchase tonight so I can have them by friday, but I can't really find any information about what the $60 gets you. Source will be an...

I recently started working at a new place, and I can't concentrate at all. It's an incredibly noisy environment and as a programmer I just can't keep any train of thought with people yelling at each other all day. I am looking for a set of closed headphones to try to help with this issue. I...

There is a very popular finance site I frequent, and there is currently a thread going about a certain bank that is offering 5.25% rewards checking. There is, however, a bit of a catch. This is their website. Yes, this is a real, FDIC insured bank, established in 1913. Browsing through...

A while ago, in a thread I can't remember, someone posted a link to a youtube video of an Organ recording. The organ was a famous european organ, recently restored. Some comments in the video suggested that it might have been an organ Bach himself played on, given it's location/age/history...

I am currently building a system that is not going to be HTPC system. The guts of it (790GX / 780G) probably will be the guts of a HTPC based system in a year though. When speccing out my current system, I am at the point of choosing a motherboard. The only real difference that's going to...

I had to send in my HD600s for repair. Just got them back, and it was a little bit of the surprise. For those that don't know, if you are outside of the 3 year warranty period or lost your receipt, Senn charges a flat fee ($65) to fix anything that might be wrong with them. The documentation...

About a month ago I started to get intermittentcy in the right driver of my HD600s. Considering they're 2 years old and I use them literally every day I thought it was the common contact-point problem, but even touching the prongs to the driver leads didn't always work. Sent them back to Senn...

I am having intermittency problem with my HD600 and after perusing the forums and some fiddling I'm 90% sure the cable is to blame, doubly so after I tried swapping the L and R ends and now have intermittency problem on both sides Ordered a replacement from the Sennheiser store, and got a...

I just realized that despite being here so long, I have no clue where deal threads go, so mods feel free to move (or delete) this post wherever it's supposed to go. Senn CX-300's are $30 over at newegg with free shipping. Senn currently has a rebate going where if you send in your old...

Just looking over this auction blows my mind. If I was a billionaire I would certainly give this collection a good home, $3m starting bid just seems cheap for what's contained within. The World's Greatest Music Collection - eBay (item 320230084120 end time Mar-29-08 18:00:00 PDT) I wonder...

I've been recently pondering various options to go down the speaker route, and something that's been incredibly frustrating is that a lot of high end pre-amps I see reviewed in various rags don't come with a remote. In fact, thinking about head-fi, pretty much every single headphone amp I've...

My source and amp are plugged into the same wall socket. The problem is the amp love to pick up radio. I've tried most of the normal solutions to this and none work. The thing is though there is a "magic spot" I can touch on the amp that makes it all go away. I discovered that what I'm doing...

Hello all. I've wanted to pick up an acoustic for a while now, and I have a musiciansfriend 20% off anything coupon in front of me. Considering it's tagged to my name I can't just sell it to someone who will use it for something really nice*, and I've been on their mailing list for years for...

Hello all. I absolutly love the LD2++ with the svetlana/mullard tube combo, enough to keep the amp around even though it's having a horrible radio pickup issue that I'm 99% sure is related to inadequate grounding (I touch the amp in a special spot, the problem goes away). I finally opened the...

I know "archival" and "DVD" is a bit of an oxymoron, but I'm asking anyways. It's been years since I've done any research on media, and searching through google it's really hard to get any good info because there is simply too muchinformation, most bad. Three years ago, the generally accepted...

I've been browsing through this forum, and am amazed there hasn't been any discussion about this album at all. I go through quite a lot of music and even though I don't particularly enjoy hip-hop, but it's probably my favorite album of the year. Saul Williams has had a long history as a beat...