Please help on the following: I'm considering an IEM upgrade (from Shure E3 to E5C), to use unamped with a Sony D-EJ2000 PCDP and in a near future with the Sony MD-RH1. Is this upgrade worth it or do you think I wouldn't notice significant differences (for the better, I mean...) without an...

Despite having a Sony CDP-X3000ES, one of the best looking audio CDP I ever laid m'eyes on, I wished I could have owned its bigger sibling, the CDP-X5000ES and, why not, its matching amp, the TA-F5000ES (They were known, at their time, as Sony Dream Machines). To shorten the story, last...

I recently bought a Sony D-555 on Ebay, for a non exorbitant price, and am considering buying a replacement battery (I guess the original BP2-EX is long dead ). After some browsing/thread searching I found the following sites selling Lithium replacement batteries...

I just bought a pair of Alessandro MS-2, new, in box (I think they are the old version, not the MS-2i) for 148€ + 18€ shipping. I plan to use them on my home setup (Sony SCD-1 + Prehead MkI), as an alternative to the HD650/Zu... Was this a good purchase, considering the price and the nice...

Q1: In the SCD-XA9000ES tecnical specs from the Sony 2004 Portuguese catalogue it is claimed that its optic laser block is fixed. Is this true? If so, that would mean that the CD/SACD would be the one to move, as in older Sony ES designs (and the SCD-1, but without the puck )... Q2: Does...

I found this japanese site a while ago... it provides a global view of Sony ES CD Players through the ages, providing a lot of high quality pictures and official specs... Thanks to Babelfish, you can even read the text (well, kind of...) Enjoy...

Here is the short version of the story: I was thiiiiis close to buying a used Sony SCD-1 as replacement for my Sony CDP X3000ES, to use with a Prehead MkI + Sennheiser HD650 (with Zu Mobius), but the seller decided... not to sell Better luck next time! As a "crap in, crap out" believer...

I am planning to buy a mint Sony SCD-1 to replace a Sony CDP-X3000ES in my headphone setup (Prehead Mk1 + HD650, cabled with VDH First Ultimates and Zu Mobius) It's not that I am unhappy with my system sound; I find it very detailed, and occasionaly 3D magic occurs, yet it is a bit on the...

Even though I had read about the low output issue of recent Sony pcdp, and of the EJ2000 in particular, I ended up buying an european unit from Ebay (...I told you so...) at a fair price. In the threads I looked into (the latest from 2004), it was said that this had to do with the hardware, in...

It appears Grace Design is planning to launch the replacement of its 901 headphone amplifier, the m902, and it seems quite promising... It should include: -Balanced and unbalanced analog inputs -AES3, S/PDIF, TOSLINK and USB digital inputs -Variable level unbalanced analog outputs -"Latest...

I have started to put together my first REAL headphone system a few months ago; first I bought a used Sony CDP X3000 (without a single scratch!!!), and since that time have been lounging in Head-Fi... trying to choose a headphone amp to drive a HD600 (I find paying twice as much for HD650 a bit...