One of the cables I mentioned before was a little less expensive than the stock cable from the vendor hifi80sman linked, but Periapt cables will sell you a 10ft cable for $83. https://periaptcables.com/ You'd think Sony's official vendor would be able to display images on a website. Not...

Corpse Cable makes 10 foot cables for the MDR-Z7M2 for $150 or $225, depending on which of their lines you choose. That's relatively inexpensive for an aftermarket headphone cable. Their Gravedigger line uses Cardas wire. I have a 10ft Gravedigger cable myself. It's a quality cable and their...

If DenverW got in on the $298 deal at B&H, and it sounds like he did, then neither of those prices will hold any allure for him.

The Anker USB-C adapter makes everything okay, but Audeze can't make a USB-C cable themselves because so complicated. Whatever. Not offering a cable for such a large market is disappointing. Or an agreement with Apple. Regardless, this is a great example of how removing the 3.5mm headphone...

AudioDwebe, those are obvious fakes. The correct spelling is Head-F1.

I have. I haven't received a shipping notification yet.

A quick browse of the sales forum shows an unopened pair of GH1s was last offered in 2018. It was put up for sale for MSRP twice, but does not appear to have sold. On the other hand, lightly used pairs usually sell pretty quickly. Check the forum for pricing.

"I spoke with Johnathan [sic] Grado a bit there and I get the distinct impression that he knows exactly how his headphones sound and are perceived...." And how is that? No need to be coy, Grover.

I noticed that you posted about this in another thread in September. There you begin with: This is very strange. It makes no sense for Beyerdynamic to repair a headphone, especially a flagship headphone, sent to them for service in this way, because both of the foreseeable outcomes are bad...

Way to enable. :gs1000smile: Will you be picking up a pair of the "more interesting" GH3s?

The main GS3000e page says that a 4-pin XLR balance cable option is available, but, to your point, it's not an option on the store page. I guess you could call them. The most interesting thing I was able to get from the photos is that the GH3 appears to have comfies (S cushions).

The GS3000e, GH3, and GH4 now have pages on the Grado website and are available for sale on Grado's 4OurEars store, so there's a little bit more information available about each model. I've ordered a pair of GH4s. I'll be interested to see if it has a distinct sound signature or if it's an RS2e...

Quote:   Praising with faint damnation.  K501s were on clearance a couple of years ago for $100.  For $1300 more than the K501, plus another $250 or so for recabling, you can buy the HD800 reviewed here, which "does most of it a bit better."  This is the strongest argument for the K501...

Thanks to Kevin and Cee Tee for sharing their mini-meet impressions.   I've had an Alessandro MS-1 for three years or so now.  It was the second audiophile headphone I bought, coming after my AKG K501.  The mids are forward in the mix, but not annoyingly so, and the treble is a bit rolled...

Congratulations, Gilency.   I've only ever attended DSO concerts.  I had season tickets for a couple of years before I bought my house.  Now I attend a couple concerts a year.  I've seen all manner of performances there.  They paired Mozart's Symphony No. 41 (Jupiter) with Holst's "The...

+1 for The Who: Quadrophenia   Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime is also excellent.  I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned already.

The Who: Quadrophenia   It takes more than listening to an album to exhaust me, but Quadrophenia is emotionally involving and rewards repeated listening.  It seems to fit the mold of the suggestions I've seen so far.

  I'm 35 and didn't care for The Cure at the time of their commercial peak in the Disintegration/Wish era, but I've come to appreciate them later.  I picked up the Disintegration reissue a couple of months ago, since those are the songs with which I'm most familiar.  The bass is much more...

  Oops A Head-Fi Story   Yesterday, I made the mistake of thinking with my ears rather than what’s between them.  I'm seeking some in house advice from what should be a sympathetic audience about the second thoughts I’m having.  Apologies for the length.   I’m at the point with my...

I still have the first CD player I ever owned, a Pioneer PD-5700.  It's a nondescript single disc player that I bought in 1990 or 1991 for between $100 and $200, IIRC.  I used it regularly for the first 10 years or so, then boxed it for a couple of years while I was moving back and forth and...

"Don't Tread on Me" - Metallica

The Piano Concertos. For a top 50, you can probably get by with the last three. Picks: Uchida/Sanderling set on Philips for any. Grimaud/Jurowski on DG for the 5th. There's also a good performance of the 28th sonata this disc. Brautigam/Parrott on BIS for the 3rd. Piano Sonatas. Lex...

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue [Legacy Edition] Charles Mingus: Ah Um [Legacy Edition] Gerry Mulligan/Chet Baker: The Original Quartet - Complete Recordings Marc-André Hamelin: Chopin - Sonatas, Nocturnes, Berceuse, Barcarolle Marc-André Hamelin: Brahms - The Piano Quartets

Radiohead are a terrible idea.* They're way too avante-garde and trippy for the Super Bowl. You need something rocking and with broad appeal to the football demographic. It's not a venue for displaying your membership in the art rock cogniscienti. The older acts' music has cross-generational...

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