I got my new-to-me DAC8 Stereo late last week from the "bay of fleas." I really never thought I'd find one used in good shape, much less the streaming version. So, I am happily surprised. Tonight I got the microSD card formatted correctly for the Raspberry Pi and am listening to my collection...

Sennheiser has officially split and spun off their consumer division, which includes headphones. Does anyone know where to source the driver part (System 300R / part #091570) in the US? I've been looking for the better part of an hour with no luck stateside. I need one of my HD 600 pairs back in...

Polypterus clearly takes care of their gear, shipped carefully & quickly, everything arrived as described, and excellent communications throughout. A+!

Excellent communications from the start to the end, patiently waited for my payment to clear, shipped quickly & carefully, DAC works great. Thanks!

I'd love to attend but between work and family (Sunday is fathers day!), I can only spare maybe a couple of hours on Saturday. Would it be worth it?

Looks like Neumann released an open version of the NDH-20, the NDH-30: https://en-de.neumann.com/ndh-30 For anyone interested in music listening vs production, you're out of luck: it's the same concept. "Reference-class open-back studio headphone for editing, mixing, and mastering" I bought a...

I had the same impression. There were many more manufacturers at the last show back in 2019. They occupied a good portion of the exhibit hall. I like that it's isolated from the rest of the show now, but the numbers sure were down. Although it's extremely difficult to compare apples to apples...

I had to keep it short today, and missed out on listening to any headphones save for Shure's KSE1500 electrostatic in ears(!). They sound very good, at least on the track I heard. They didn't have a USB-C to micro-USB cable handy at their table, so I couldn't listen to anything from my Android...

Also living in Chicago, I've been a couple times. I can only go on Friday this year, but that's better than nothing! My weakness in the past has been that open exhibits area where all the headphone manufacturers are as well as the LPs and SACDs for sale.

Yes, sorta. They're in Berwyn. I don't think they have a showroom, but you can see a video of their operations here

All three solid. And (it's not in front of me at the moment) I believe the USB charging LED does not come on. I'll plug it in tonight & leave it overnight, but don't have high hopes for the little guy.

I have a Mojo that seems dead. All three LEDs go white when connected to power, but no output whatsoever. I tried again with the battery disconnected but there was no change. Any suggestions of what might be wrong? I searched up and down this thread and the whole site, coming up with nothing...

Unfortunately according to an employee there, they are no longer servicing the Mojo. Mine won't power on with or without battery, and only shows all marbles as white when connected to power.

Same experience here in terms of driving them with a balanced headphone amp. I bought a custom cable I like from Periapt Cables - https://periaptcables.com/ The company was recommended either somewhere here or on the MassDrop forum.

If the program's still active, I'm very interested in auditioning these!

Looks as if the drop will be over soon - currently says 3 days remaining. As a Sennheiser can fan, I couldn't resist. Maybe after some extensive listening tests I can pare down a pair, between the HD580, (2) HD600, and 58x Jubilee. Hard to say in the absence of hearing them, or knowing how...

Nice to meet some of you there. Thanks for doing this, Brian!   Also great blog post. This is my favorite line, "In a world when music has been devalued and people expect to be able to stream everything for free, and speakers are hidden inside earbuds, computers and walls as if they’re dirty...

I call them bros or bruhs. I don't miss that from living Lakeview a couple years.

I ride the blue line frequently between 10 & 11pm and haven't had any problems. A lot of the neighborhoods on the northwest side have improved in terms of safety and continue to do so. I wouldn't say the same of the Forest Park branch however.

For parking, the Rosemont CTA is very reasonable and a short walk away. Otherwise you're paying $$ to park at a hotel. Or just hop on the blue line and don't worry about parking or traffic.  See you there!

I'm curious about a couple of things. First, is the front volume pot analog only, or does it control the unit digitally? I'm always looking for something with repeatable output levels (whether digital or stepped attenuation) for mastering. Also is the XLRs output variable, or is there a digital...

Okay, I just found the ones performing a Google image search. Thanks to Head-Fi, there are multiple thousands of them! Go ahead and guess if you're curious and I'll tell you if you're right. 

Hi, I used to have a pair of open Sennheiser headphones that sounded just okay. They were very convenient though, and I'm considering replacing them. Now if I only knew what they were! Here's what I recall: lower-end, probably sub-$100 when new all black plastic headband that applied just a...

in light of a headband replacement and purchasing another pair of HD600, maybe it's time i invest in a travel case. any recommendations? i've seen the ones on ebay, but it doesn't inspire confidence when they say they fit multiple models. 

thanks for your thorough review! i have just a quick question.    Quote from @mark2410:     and    why do you say this? is the Tube particularly noisy in comparison to the Chicago L for example? for reference the L is similar if a little quieter than the nyc subway, yet not nearly as...