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...

Let me preface by saying I never heard the non X version of these headphones and the only other AT  set I have is the M50 so I can't tell you if these are based on 900's or 700's. I can only tell you I'm now a huge AT fan and please sir may I have some more.     Review:   I have a lot of...

IEM's have never really been my thing but lately certain neighbors have been driving me crazy with car stereo bass. I know noise cancelling headphones don't really block non droning sounds and not bass sounds, so I'm thinking some good IEM's might help me enjoy music without hearing someone...

Please understand this isn't a Schiit bash. I love my Lyr 2 and I like the company, I was just disappointed in the modi 2 uber. I hope they can accept honest criticism.   I raised some pretty serious questions in the HD650 thread about the sound quality of the Schiit audio Modi 2 uber (I said...

A friend at work had an E17 that suffered it's 2nd headphone jack failure. He had already had it repaired once and the jack only lasted a few months before the new one started cutting out in the left channel, then no sound at all. He asked me if I could solder a new jack on for him since I have...

I thought I was going crazy but after I hooked my new Lyr 2 amp up I realized that the channels were reversed, except they weren't. I have 3 versions of Dave Brubeck's Take Five, Most of them have the drums on the left channel, but one of the better recordings has the drums on the right...

Lets get a list going of songs that used to sound fine, but after getting better equipment you noticed flaws that slipped past the recording engineers. Name the artist, track, equipment, and flaw.   Blood Orange - Champagne Coast - HD650/E5 DAC The drums are looped every 2 measures and when...

I listen to headphones when I sleep. It helps drown out distracting sounds and I like listening to music even when I'm dreaming. The problem is that my 1 yr old E9 has started doing some odd things. You know how when you turn it on the light is red, then it clicks and turns blue? Well that...

Disclaimer, I'm a Beyerdynamic fanboy but my review is critical.   I started with the 880 and life was good. I acquired a 990 and found the first headphones Id ever heard that needed 0 EQ to sound optimal. They are still my go to cans. I've heard great things about the Custom One Pro and so...

I use my DT990's and DT880's a LOT. Like I need new pads about every 6 months or so when the old ones get too flattened and the foam starts to get bent out of shape. At $30 a pop though I have decided that it's time to take matters into my own hands. So last night I cut open the inside backing...

Bluetooth headphones are to audiophiles like a pot noodle is to a gourmet foodie; Joe blow might think they are neat but you wouldn't catch me dead with one.   I've owned various headsets for phone calls from Nokia, to Jawbone and my first A2DP headset was a logitech one made for the Ipad...

    I am about 4 songs in and some preliminary impressions. It will take me longer to write a proper review but I find first impressions to be fleeting but truthful.   1. These are very sensitive heapdhones. 2. They have good clamping pressure but can slide off your head 3...

Amazon had them on sale today for $40 and I ended up grabbing a pair. I couldn't find any respectable reviews or frequency responses for it so I'm not sure what to expect. It looks like they modeled it on their new top end headphones with the somewhat hockey puck shaped driver cans but with very...

My replacement DT990 pro's arrived today and although I think I sorted out the shorting driver in the other pair, they're still going back because I don't trust headphones that have problems like that so soon. I got burned on Grado's once for not returning/exchanging early enough and got stuck...

So much for Fridays being a good day. Fell asleep listening to music on the 990's and when I woke up I moved my head and the left speaker cut out. I reached up and jiggled the cable and sure enough, the left started cutting in and out quite loudly I might add.   At least the seller has a...

Has anybody tried out the new soundblaster Z cards that are replacing the x-fi? They advertise a dedicated headphone amp capable of driving 600 ohm cans, and "audiophile" capacitors and components. I've seen reviews on youtube from non audiophiles but what I mostly want to know is how it sounds.

It's been a week since I got my 990 pro's and while there was some initial sibilance I found fatiguing, that did not last very long. The burn in was unexceptional and subtle, a slight opening of the soundstage, a smoother and less grainy top end, and a smoother midrange. About what I remember...

I have an Audioengine D1 DAC, USB bus powered going into a FiiO E9 desktop headphone amplifier. Most of the time this arrangement works tip top but occasionally at very high volume I can hear a hiss and hum coming from the DAC and strangely it seems to be the USB cable.   If I jiggle the USB...

Anybody remember this old trick of wiring surround speakers to a 2 channel amplifier by making the rears a series connection going from + to + so that only the out of phase sounds will produce voltage? I remember doing this on my Pioneer amp back when I was a teenager before Dolby Surround...

Love the phones, hate coiled cables. I could solder a new cable on in a heartbeat with my Weller but I was thinking of something more posh. Where might I find something like a mini XLR jack to mod the 990 pro to have a removable cable?   Has anybody had luck doing this before?

My DT 990's came in today. I have the 880's already but the premium version and this is unexpectedly different. I knew from the pictures that the outer covers were a little different but I assumed the rest was the same.   1. The headband is a button over kind but it seems to be fake leather...

Go to mp3ornot.com and take the test using the best headphones you can. See if you can tell the difference between a 128kbps and 320kbps mp3 file. They use a random selection of music, some of it's a little disingenuous as they pick some tracks that would tend to mask compression artifacts, so...

I think I have my target locked for the next headphone purchase. I'm looking at the Hifiman 400 planars and I was wondering how they stack up to the DT880.

I have spent the last month or more with the q701 and it's had about 300 hours of break in now so it's finally time to see how it  stacks up against the DT880 250 ohm. The format of this shootout will be 3 songs, chosen for their clarity, dynamics, and quality,  they lend themselves well to...

Oh my god, finally! I finally found something that does EXACTLY what I was wanting it to do.   Equalizer APO. http://sourceforge.net/projects/equalizerapo/   This has a hook into the windows audio subsystem that started with Vista and includes Windows 7 and Windows 8, to install a...