My phone sounds pretty good in comparison to my FiiO E17 and drives my headphones quite well for my needs, so I have no use for an external DAC. The built in music player plays back 24/192 just fine, and I know many inexpensive DACs support hi res audio (even cheap built in realtek laptops), is...

From a purely objective standpoint do the k240s need an amp with a low output impedance in order to achieve the designed frequency response? They can get plenty loud on my laptop but I don't know if their varying impedance vs frequency is enough to cause a significant variation in their...

Was trying to see if I could tell the difference between 80kbps he-aac and flac.

<not my image>   These are "7.1" headphones. Now obviously they don't have 8 drivers in them, but what they do have is a USB audio interface that takes 7.1 channels from the computer and runs it through dolby headphone. The specific dolby headphone profile is perfectly tuned to these...

I'm looking for a pair of fairly neutral sounding headphones in this price range with decent bass extension and highs but with no frequency range strongly emphasized. Any recommendations?

I recently purchased a new laptop. HP Beats Envy. Now I didn't purchase it because of the beats audio, I purchased it because it was $599, had a touch screen, lighted keyboard, 8gb of ram, quad core AMD A8 cpu, and a Radeon GFX card good enough for light duty gaming. Basically it had everything...

So the filters in my ety's (the only headphone i really use) got clogged and i had no more left, so until i could get replacements, i had to pick up a pair of cheapo's so i had something to listen to music with. Found a set of Koss UR55's on clearance at K-mart, and i know from previous...

I was listening to karsh kales one step beyond earlier today on my AD900's and past a certain volume i could clearly hear distortion. Could this actually damage the drivers?

Looking for some good recommendations. Here's what i've been enjoying as of lately.      

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Just curious if they do or if the only way to get good sound out of them is modding them. What are the major differences after modding them?

Just got an E17 in the mail today. First few seconds of using it i noticed the sound coming out of this thing was polished to a mirror finish. Quite honestly, the last time i heard audio this well rendered was coming out of a Marantz SR7400 (which had a burr-brown DAC in it). Fairly certain it...

It's been connected for almost 6 hours now and the red light hasn't gone off. Unplugging it it says its fully charged on the battery indicator. Is the light supposed to go off or something? Will leaving it on charge damage it?

I'm curious if it does and if so to what extent. Reason i ask is because i recently purchased a Behringer UCA202 audio interface, and just now found out it has an output impedance of 50ohms. Plugging my 34ohm headphones back and forth between the UCA and my ipod (which is rated at 5ohms output...

now it seems the opposite, everyone saying it's an over rated phone and nobody recommending it like they used to. when i first joined it was the hottest ~100 dollar phone on this forum.

Using my Ety HF5's out of my UCA202 i noticed the sound is substantially better than the sound coming from my phone. The sound coming out of the phone sounds "loose" and strained, vs tight and detailed coming from the UCA202. Would a portable amp like a fiio fix this or not? I did try it out...

if you could choose one headphone that does a better job than any other headphone at pulling nuances and detail out of music, what would it be?

Forgive me if this sounds a bit incoherent, I haven't had a lot of sleep and I've been pounding away at algebra homework all day, so there isn't much left at this point, but here goes.   I'm writing this review with the intention of comparing these two headphones, considering I have seen...

Meaning you used to own/buy high end speakers and then decided to pursue headphones instead. If so, why?   I used to go the speaker route but i ended up selling it all awhile back and putting that money towards headphone stuff simply because even with great speakers room acoustic problems...

You listen to one for a period of time and then go to put a different one on and all of the sudden it sounds weird and "off". For example, i listened to my ety's all this morning on the bus to college, they sounded off and weird for about the first 30 minutes i listened to them eventually they...

Hey guys, looking at getting some new iem's as my ety's are on the verge of falling to pieces. I'd like to find something superior to them however.   What I'm looking for: Natural sounding bass, absolutely positively cannot stand bass-heavy sound. It needs to sound natural and blend nicely...

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I've been considering doing this simply because no matter how good IEM's can sound, they're no match for fullsize cans. 

anybody else notice this?

Who else agrees? Even the free version is awesome. 160kbps OGG for free users and up to 320kbps for paid. With OGG i can't really tell a difference past 160 anyways but still. I love it because i have saved enough albums to playlists that if i were to purchase them all individually, it would...