Hey, everyone. Over the last few years I've been slowly making the footprint of my audio setup smaller and smaller as I've moved to Chicago, become more of a headphone listener, and now finally decided that I need to free up desk space and get rid of most of my dedicated home audio components...

Hey, everyone. A few months ago I got an old HeadSave Classic in a trade, and I haven't used it much because my portable setups of late are all IEM-based and I don't currently have any closed cans I'd bring out in public. However, last night I was too lazy to move myself to my main setup, and...

After a few years in Alabama, my studies are taking me back to my cold original home in the Midwest. This time, the destination is Chicago. I move in a couple months, and I'd like to get an idea of what to expect before getting there. I've spent a few brief stints in Hamburg and NYC in the past...

Hello, everyone. After a long time using ALSA and Gmusicbrowser on Linux, I've bought myself a new Lenovo with Windows 8.1, and I've attempted to set it up bitperfect with WASAPI through Foobar2000. I followed all the instructions I found online, but for some reason both Foobar's volume controls...

General discussion about Britain's best rock band.   Who's bought the new album? Does anybody have Live At Jodrell Bank?   I have every studio release except for The Take Off And Landing of Everything, and I have the Dead in the Boot compilation as well.

I feel like I have to be missing something. I need something to extract the digital bitstream from my Classic when I'm on the go, but the only thing I can think of that does it effectively is the HP-P1. Is there a standalone DAC (or an integrated DAC/amp that'll power the Mad Dog and Alpha Dog...

Hey, everyone! I was over in this thread whining about how my Linux distro (Bodhi) has constant problems recognizing my ODAC and DAC1 correctly, when Head-Fier "yay101" suggested a system to me called Daphile. In the last couple of days, it has completely changed my home listening habits. I...

Hey there, everybody. I've been casually in the market for a new DAP for quite awhile, but now I think I'm close to purchasing something. I've become absolutely sick of the practical and sonic limitations of my Panasonic Portable CDP/CMoyBB and iPod/CMoyBB chains, and I'm no longer in a...

I've run across quite a few Sigur Ros fans here on the forums the past couple of years, so I'm hoping to get a few responses to this thread.   My personal favorites are Ara Batur, Festival, Untitled #8, All Alright, Ekki Mukk, Hafsol, I Gaer, and perhaps a few that I'm missing. I tend...

Time to open up the unofficial thread for the year:   I got a pair of MDs (with the Dog Pads) from a collective group of friends that seems to finally understand me, as well as one of the two final Sigur Ros albums that I'm missing from my collection.   I gave a Grado and an SOL Republic...

I ran across this while surfing bored on the net today. I was on Sennheiser's US site, and decided to look up where the US headquarters are. Turns out that they're in Old Lyme, Connecticut, which is a small town of 7,000 that has a populace that earns on average twice that of most Americans. And...

Hey, everyone! I've embarked on a project recently to design and build a reference-quality, modern-looking, comfortable, and portable headphone utilizing top-quality materials. I'm having an artistically-inclined friend design a slightly out-there modern housing with acoustic advisory from me...

It's 600 ohms and not sensitive in the least. It has a one-foot cable with a coil that will snap your neck if you attempt to extend it. It has vaguely rectangular earpads that an ear can neither fit in or rest on top of the ear. It's made by a company the specializes in batch orders, "education"...

Have you ever wondered what your setup would look like as a chart? Too bad, you're going to make one anyways. The goal of the thread is to map your master setup(s), and to show the interlinking gear you own and how you use it. You can be as simple or as complex as you like (use generic terms...

Hello, everyone. I just got a new computer and a new DAC recently, and immediately I threw Windows out the window and got Ubuntu, which I'd had on my previous computer. However, it didn't respond how I wanted to the uDAC2. I've only managed to get digital output flowing to it once, and the rest...

Who provided in-ear monitors for the Opening Ceremonies? I assumed it was ACS at first (being a British company), but I'm not sure they have the capacity to produce that many custom-fit IEMs in time. Ultimate Ears, perhaps?

I just got a new laptop after my old one, decorated with human rights advocacy banners, decided to eat its own hard drive alive. I think I'm going to go in a different direction with this one and litter it with audio-related stickers. I know JH Audio sells a sticker for 3 bucks, but I haven't...

RULES: Only standalone product lines are permitted, not simple artistic collaborations.   When putting this together, I was surprised by some of the headphones that seem to have simply slipped by anybody's perception. Try asking anybody on Head-Fi about Tim McGraw's JBL headphone line or...

DSICLAIMER: I'm not just a Beats-basher. I actually own and enjoy the Solo HD (though only for under 100 dollars). I just found these funny and sad.   I found these gems on the Beats main website. It's quite obvious that the appeal here isn't to anyone who knows a thing about audio, and the...

Fess up, what group of headphone-blind idiots created the Hifi World Champion 2012 competition? The nominations for the headphone category, supposedly made by hi-fi audio experts, are completely absurd. Among the seven nominated, three are noise-cancelling consumerist junk, one is a random...

I cannot lay claim to having been on Head-Fi for more than a year or two, and I know that "Sorry about your wallet" has been around long before my time. Does anyone know who first coined it in the context of personal audio?

Hello, Head-Fi. Good evening.   I would like to address some reviews of the Fischer Audio FA-003, Brainwavz HM5, and LINDY Premium Hi-Fi, which overall do not overstate. They're great headphones at their price point, and are competitive at nearly twice their price. Those reviews and numerous...

I was looking at NuForce's re-branded Ultrasone Zino, when I noticed this little thing, which is a product I'd by willing to buy, being from NuForce. Anyone have experience with it?  

It's official: Beats are now too normal for most exclusivity-craving conformist consumers. This could be a very good thing for truly high-end headphone manufacturers and the Head-Fi community as people search for alternatives, but the actual response to this phenomenon has been actually more...

I'm looking for detail, with perhaps a bit of warmth. Good sonic reproduction with heavily-layered rock and with drums is a must.   Thanks, guys!