I signed up as a backer #634 on their Indiegogo campaign and pre ordered it for $249 back in March of this year. After many set backs and delays they missed their ship date of June 2018, then missed July, then missed August. The item finally arrived 9/6 and I have my initial impressions after a...

I don't have the equipment to do a sweep but on my own pair of MDR1000x I did some A/B testing with the active EQ turned on and off, and I built a Fubar EQ profile that made the passive sound exactly like the active sound with no fubar EQ. In other words it's a Fubar EQ approximation of what the...

The measurements I was mentioning can be found here in the 2nd spectrum "Power Off - Diffuse field target compensated" https://clarityfidelity.blogspot.com/2016/10/sony-mdr-1000x-bt-nc-over-ear-headphones.html They may have had a particularly bad dip in their set (75db@2.2khz from a 95db...

I don't know why I never followed up on this but I had emailed Beyerdynamic USA back in 2013 and received a reply January 7 2013. In a nutshell they sent me the parts I needed for free and they arrived a few days later. Mike Terranova a Sales Support Specialist was the one who took care of me.

That was a conservative estimate. It's more like 3 years of 16 hours a day, even slept with them on most nights before I got my HD650. To put it another way, I have more time on those 2 Beyerdynamics than any other headphone I own, and other than wearing out 6 sets of the velour pads, replacing...

  EQ APO is software agnostic and works everywhere as long as you don't use wasapi or exclusive mode. I gave it a generous 8db@20 and 6db@40 and it sounds real nice now.     As for the HE400 with the combination leather/velour pads, yeah the bass is nice. If you take a little of the...

That hasn't been my experience. My first 2 good headphones were the DT880 and DT990 and between the two of them I have probably 500 hours of listening time. Other than my hair buzzing that one time which I fixed, no problems what so ever with driver quality. 

I made an important discovery tonight for those of you who get spurious noises and coil whine that comes and goes on the ESP 950. The headphone is VERY sensitive to capacitance. I found this out when I plugged a vape pen into USB to charge and had the headphones on, and every time I touched the...

 Yeah it's really going to depend on how helpful they are in response to the email. If they want to quote you a cost for the part with the understanding it's not for a warranty but instead is something you want and are willing to do yourself without it coming back to bite them "They sent me a...

The 800 has no pairing yet in my equipment. I think what it needs is euphoric tubey goodness, but I don't have any amps like that and I don't think I can make my Lyr sound that way even rolling. I just use sonarworks and whatever amp is closest for the 800, lately it's been my asus Essence STX...

I think I fat fingered the price, it was 650 not 560. Still totally worth it considering I paid $999 for my HD800. 

The driver is only held in by an adhesive ring around the edge, and the soldered ends of the voice coil wire. It can be pulled out of the magnet too easily. The problem is getting the surround un-glued and plus you don't know if it's the coil or the magnet that's making the noise so not worth it...

I just picked up my first electrostatics today! Amazon had the ESP-950 on sale for $650 prime shipped, and sold by Amazon so I trusted it enough to hit buy unlike some of the other vendors (too many scammers)   I love them. I need about 5db of bass boost to be truly satisfied, but damn do they...

I'm  saying that 3 pin xlr and 3 conductor TRS cables have the same electrical and noise rejection properties and you're being an ass about it. You're also making an assumption that the equipment a person uses somehow makes them an expert in something when the reality is experience does. We call...

Well yeah. Pro audio gear all uses XLR even on cheap throw away equipment but it's used so that long instrument cable runs do not pick up noise. The two signal wires are out of phase and summed in order to get the signal. So any noise in the line would be picked up by both wires, and since each...

Quote: Optical would isolate the electrics between your computer and your DAC, however if you happen to have the USB cable plugged in at the same time you have any other electrical connection to the computer, it will pick up noise. I'll give you an example, I had a FIIO amp which also had a...

The reason for monitor noise is because of the grounds. Have you ever wondered why automobiles use the body of the car as a shared ground instead of running positive and negative wires all over the car? Multiple grounds act like an antenna because it produces a difference in potential and...

Mid range presence seems to be 2-5khz. Headphones I own with a dip sound veiled for vocals. Headphones I own with a bump there tend to be highly regarded for vocals.   6-8khz is where a lot of harshness can exist because of bad recordings or HRTF so it can make the difference between vocals...

I got mine today and am mostly comparing them to the Plantronics Backbeat pro. Surprisingly in sound quality department they are different but equal. If anything it's made me realize how good the backbeat is especially considering it's less than half the cost of the Sony's. However the NC goes...

You don't need a jitterbug or RF chokes. Your problem is 2 grounds. Have you ever wondered why all the electrical power in an automobile is positive and only the bare metal of the car provides negative? It's because if you run positive and negative to multiple locations, the negative acts like a...

I have made that same mistake before, trying to make an inverse EQ profile to make a headphone perfectly flat, but unfortunately it's not that simple. The frequency response graphs are measuring the power of each frequency which gives an accurate sum of the frequency response. The problem is...

The 650's definitely roll off sooner than the 880, but nothing holds a candle to the brain melt that is the HD800 on a bad track. It's enough to make you scream. A lot of people like AKG's for their midrange, I'm just not one of them. I'm not much for mids, but the 650 with a good amp sounds...

My energy sometimes comes out as agressive. I was laughing when I wrote it and meant it light hearted so sorry if I came off mean. I just really don't like the Q701's sound signature but I understand men like Sennheiser and martians like AKG. ;)   When I pulled the Q701's out of the box I...

I'm sorry but it starts with your name, continues through calling 880 's mids as 'honky' and the punch line is then suggesting the Q701 doesn't. The Q701 has some of the worst coloration, resonance spikes, and phasing issues of any headphone in my collection. If that sounds normal to you it is...

There is a period of adjustment when listening to a headphone with a vastly different tuning or construction. It can make us dislike our initial impression, but later we get used to the differences and find we like it more than other headphones in our collection. Our perception of the voicing in...