Give them a little longer. If you have a good neutral reference, then I think you'll soon find that these IEMs certainly don't lack bass.   Also, if the rock music you're listening to is lacking in bass, you need to listen to some better recorded rock music. My best rock albums are far from...

If you're okay with open backed headphones and you're looking for balanced sound above all, HD600.

  Needs bigger, more colorful fonts.

  Good to see you're back. And I'm glad to hear you're starting to feel better.

I saw a student here one of my university's dining halls, wearing JHA Roxanne, about a week ago, I believe. It was pretty unreal. Never thought I'd see one of those in the wild.

I agree that P3 had the best characters and the best character development in the series, but I feel that P4 ultimately had a better plot. Combined with the more impressive dungeon variety and a cast of still pretty strong characters, I felt that P4 felt like the stronger game, if perhaps a...

Honestly, my next favourite behind FFIX is FFXII. A lot of people won't be fond of the Gambit system and will never really figure the combat out, but for those who do, it really is a fantastic game, made only a tiny bit worse by the fact that it's yet another Final Fantasy = Star Wars game. The...

You probably won't. At the moment, IX is easily the best in the series. Until XV (hopefully) blows it out of the water. Or until KHIII is retitled Final Fantasy XVI.

If you're encoding lossless to lossless, then it shouldn't be any problem. You can convert it down to 16 bits without anything funky happening.

It was just a t-shirt, you guys. Get over it.

I hope they work out for you.

If you'd still like to take the upgrade path, consider the VSonic GR07. They are likely a further departure from your Sennheiser earphones, but for $100, they are one of the best values in earphones, very ergonomic and easy to fit and provide exactly that versatility which you are looking for...

Are you sure that bass response is rolling off, or if it might be your hearing that is? Remember that the lowest frequencies are felt much more than they are heard and that low bass frequencies need to be driven to much higher sound pressure levels in order to be perceived as equally loud.

I would probably buy new, because they're relatively inexpensive anyway, and that will allow you to get them replaced or serviced under warranty on the slim chance that you receive a bad unit. I haven't heard too many complaints about receiving defective items from Schiit, but I'm sure it...

RHA hasn't been on my radar since the MA-750 review program. The thought of an RHA IEM, utilizing new driver technology, and tuned to a reference sound signature, has me very intrigued. I'm looking forward to hearing some new details about this earphone.

  No, a brief break usually will not. Noise exposure is cumulative, as is hearing damage. It's not that you shouldn't hear >8 hours of continuous sound at 85 dB. You shouldn't hear any more than that over the course of an entire day, if you want to maintain your hearing as best as possible...

  To answer for him, it depends on what you mean by "low volumes." 80 dB may potentially be harmful if you listen more than 7-8 hours total per day. 70 dB or lower, probably not.   Hearing loss, unfortunately, is permanent. I've never come across anything that suggests otherwise. Try not to...

I'd like to echo the suggestion for HD600, but go one step further and say that they'll even do justice to some more aggressive genres like metal. They're insanely versatile.

All 6's And 7's isn't too bad. My major problem with most of Tech's albums is that they don't really sound coherent and don't have many good tracks aside from the singles. KOD and Special Effects are the ones that are best about this, in my opinion. They both feel like Tech really worked on the...

I don't know if anyone in the thread is a Tech N9ne fan, but I've listened to Special Effects in its entirety twice now, and while my opinion isn't fully formed, I must say that I quite like this one. It sounds very much like a sequel to his best album, KOD. If only it employed older mastering...