I decided recently to move my favorite CD-ripping drive, my Plextor PX-230A, out of my desktop PC and start using it with my laptop. I was hesitant to do it in the first place, but with so many CDs being added to my collection all the time, I had to come up with a more practical solution since...

When I bought my 5G iPod, I did so with the intention of running Rockbox on it. This was very shortly after the 5G iPod was released. I lived with it for short time, and then Apple updated iTunes and the iPod firmware making gapless playback available, so I ditched the battery-hogging Rockbox...

Going into this year, I knew that my music-listening hobby would involve a lot of music purchases as opposed to headphone/gear purchases. By now, I would safely say that I have bought 50+ new audio CDs so far in 2009, and I'm frankly alarmed to keep discovering, disc after disc, that nearly...

I've been using this Web browser for years now, and have to say that Head-Fi looks great in OmniWeb. For Mac users who want more control over browsing, yet want something that renders pages better than Firefox, I would not hesitate to recommend OmniWeb, especially because it's now free. The...

All I've got is the 1991 remaster with 3 silly bonus tracks, and I'm not pleased with the sound of the album. Has anyone got more than one mastering/pressing of this album for the sake of comparison? I'd like to get some feedback on what is considered to be the "best" CD available for this title...

So it's my fifteen hundredth post, and I thought I'd take a minute to thank the Head-Fi community for being such an active and supportive group of people. When I finally got around to creating an account on Head-Fi, I never would have imagined (at that time) getting this involved in my smalltime...

So we all have a rather complete Radiohead collection, and now finally their catalog has been released for sale in the iTunes Store. However, the album art is not yet (directly) downloadable for those of us who have bought the CDs and ripped and encoded our own files. Well, the good news is...

I'm looking for something just like the Grado 1/4" to 1/8" adapter that I already have, but 1/4" to 1/4". I want to just leave it plugged into my amp at all times, and plug my various headphones into the adapter rather than wearing out the headphone jack of my amp. Does a ready-made...

I've been trying to keep up with new product announcements from HeadRoom, and was really elated to see the addition of Amphion Ion speakers to the lineup. I'm not sure to what extent these speakers have been exported from Finland to the US market, but all I can say is that this was one excellent...

For the last few days, I've been getting a bit of an early start on my sima drinking, and really getting a bit carried away with it. Sima is a homemade, traditional Finnish mead drink consumed around the time of Vappu (April 30), which marks the end of winter. Here is what the finished...

Just today, after a very long wait, a new stable version of Max was released. It has some very useful new features, including greatly improved/enhanced CUE sheet support and full Leopard compatibility. I've been keeping a Tiger partition on my Mac and using the old stable version of Max while...

In my search for a NOS AKG K240DF, I came across this page at ornec.com. After doing a fair bit of checking, especially here at Head-Fi, it looks like this company (and all the related companies under different names) gets quite a lot of negative feedback. Of course that makes me very...

I suppose that for those of you familiar with Grados in general, it will come as no surprise that the subject of this post has to do with treble presentation. I've been listening heavily to my SR-225 for some weeks now, and have really taken to them for the most part. I was skeptical/worried...

I've noticed a very weird phenomenon over the last couple of years involving a peculiar grammatical (or other) preference for using the 1st. person plural "we" as opposed to the 1st. person singular "I" on web sites of certain members of the trade. While I will not mention any MOT sites in...

Does anyone know if the AC power supply that ships with the EC/SS can be used outside of North America (230V)? Does a special power supply have to be requested or purchased separately, or can a person just use the appropriate adapter plug with the standard power supply?

About 7 years ago, when I first got into headphone listening, I discovered the HeadRoom website and Grado headphones. At the time, I remember wanting (really badly) to pick up a pair of SR-80s, but living in Finland, this wasn't so practical or economical. I ended up getting a decent pair of...

I want to order a pair of AD797 op amps for an XP-7, but am not quite sure which precise model to order from the Analog Devices website. Would it be, perhaps, the AD797AN? That's my best guess, but many others are listed.

I have always hated Grados. Now that the introduction is out of the way, I am about to buy a pair of SR-225 just for the experience. I have a Hornet M already, and my source is an Apogee Duet. I want to keep using the Duet's headphone amp for my DT770/80 Pro and possibly my HD580, but connect...

I hope I'm simply overlooking something, but I would like to comment that the TTVJ website does not seem to offer any information on which methods of payment are accepted. More than once, I've contemplated placing an order, and then found that to get any further with the process I have to create...

While it isn't my goal to review the already well known Etymotic ER-4S, nor really to provide an in-depth look at the Apogee Duet, I thought it worth taking a few moments to post some impressions I've developed after using the Duet as a DAC/headphone amp combination, especially with the ER-4S...

In my upcoming setup, I'm going to need cables to connect a headphone amp via standard RCA connectors with a source using 1/4" female TS connectors (so the cables would need to be terminated in male RCA and 1/4" male TS). In this case, would it be better to use regular RCA cables with crimped...

I'm starting a new budget 2-channel home system from scratch, for use in a smallish narrow room where listening levels will never be beyond moderate. My source is a harman/kardon HD 970 CDP, used with both CDs and AirPort Express since it has digital inputs. I recently sold my nicest speakers...

I've owned a DT-770/80 before, and sold them a few months ago. I just bought another new pair directly from a German merchant, and have been listening to them all day today for the first time since taking them out of the box. Already I notice some distinct differences between these and my...

I am thinking of getting some powered speakers and connecting them to the loop out of a Gilmore Lite (which I don't own yet...). While I think this should work (technically), what I need to know is whether I will be able to regulate the volume of the speakers using the Gilmore Lite. The most...

I have been thinking of getting a Gilmore Lite headphone amplifier, and would be listening for the most part with my HD-580s and K-271S and occasionally my ER-4S. What I lack at this point is a DAC. Some of the options I'm considering are 1) adding a PCI soundcard such as the M-Audio 2496 and...