Quote:   If the midrange sounds receded the audible cues from the treble range and the rather omnidirectional sounding bass frequencies will dominate and the result will be a larger soundstage.  What is really happening is not a larger soundstage but a larger sounding headstage...

Quote: Thank you for the kind words.  $1700 for phones gets one quite enough in the speaker world IF one is not aiming at superior levels of microdetail.  Etys, other IEMS, various headphones, they destroy speakers in the level of audible detail, micro and macro.  Intimacy, that unique...

Quote:   Great minds think alike :)  Indeed, if one has not had the opportunity to live with something long term, I find it difficult to take the opinions seriously.  Again, there will be certain aspects that won't go away or won't magically appear during long listening sessions over a...

Quote:   I was posting with little sleep.  My spelling and grammar were atrocious.  I've cleaned up the format of my posts and corrected the spelling and comma splices after a first pass.  What I meant by the quoted text above was not that the PS-1000s are not capable, or other Grados...

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Hi pcf, Wherein once I was a headphone-centric listener, I must say that these days I am clearly in the speaker camp. This shift has helped me put many aspects of audio in perpsective. I can understand similar epiphanies going from speakers to headphones. I have yet to approximate the intimacy...

I like my PS-1000s. I haven't listened to a recent pair but I have experience with the very first pair (I own it) and a pair in the 600s. I currently own (in order of acquiring): SR60s RS-1 (very first batch) PS-1 GS-1000 iGrado PS-1000 HF-2 In the last few years, I have had or had...

I have access to the albums on the internal memory. Three albums only, all 24/96 and about 600 MB each.

These days, I am old enough to be someone's son! Yeah, I am THAT old.

I'm not sure why I lucked out but I loaded up Rockbox in about 5 minutes and after creating the internal DB, I have been enjoying the super response software with tons of codecs. My one head scratching moment comes form not being able to get a response from the buttons on the top of the unit...

Quote:   For free head to Stephen Booth's site (guy who develops Decibel, an audiophile player for Mac) and he offers a solid programme called Tag.   For something more robust and with two fingerprinting mechanisms as well as autosourcing and other neato features, try Jaikos.  For...

Thank you :)  It definitely has been a while.  Finishing up a pair of PhDs and raising two kids under 5 was brutal.  I'm more organized now that they are older and I'm working sorta normal hours.   Quote:    

Gotta love the acclaim for the Etys :)  I've been listening to them a lot lately with various amps/front-ends and I'm continually impressed at how well they compete with custom IEMS like the Westone ES3Xs etc.  For the cost, they are likely the best value in all of headphones outside of Grado...

Depends on what one is looking for I suppose.  Having had the SR007's, the R10's, the L3000's and the PS-1's all at the same time, I was astounded that I was not floored by the R10's in particular.  What was most telling was when local audiophiles, without any stake in the game, came to the same...

I think that is a fair assessment.  The PS-1000s have a similarity within the Grado lineage but they do sound different than the RS-1s.  The original RS-1's may be the best Grado for me as well as some others, though the PS-1000s are by and large my go-to headphones, and I own the PS-1's.  At...

There is always something that one loses out on when one moves within a line.  Sometimes the loss is actually a gain of its own.  Then, any other gain is icing and cherries and all that.   Back in the day, the SR200s or 300s were beyond compare until the HP-1000s hit the market.  Then, the...

Ten years...   Wow.  That's a bit of time now isn't it?  Ten years on Head-fi for me means 14 years of fascination with headphones and 17 years of wanting to really concentrate on good sound, running parallel, with good music (or at least music I enjoy).   Ten years... bloody decimal...

Quote:   I'd strongly suggest going after the Living Stereo and Mercury Living Presence SACD remasters.  These releases (now out of print but most are readily available on Amazon for under $20), are all of historically significant and historically recorded works and all of these works...

Quote:   Like you, I was curious when I continually read on many audio forums, the merit of vinyl.  What really sold me was when a friend of mine, a well seasoned audiophile and music lover, not prone to hyperbole, told me that given my tastes in music, I would absolutely love vinyl...

  Quote:   Wow, you are a rude one aren't you?  There is no need to educate me.  You know nothing about me.  You don't know my background, my profession nor my education.  If you reread my post, what did I specifically indicate?  EVEN IF!!!! CD is closer to the master or closer to the...

Quote: Well you are right of course that at the end of the day, vinyl and CD can't effectively sound the same EXACTLY, and that is my point from my previous post I suppose.  Those that enjoy vinyl and have found vinyl to sound different or better or what have you, at least those in this...

Quote: Was there not a high res release of these on a USB key?  Why bother with that when the CDs sound as good as it gets?   For those debating against vinyl, why bother?  For those debating in favour of vinyl: I feel your pain.  I grew up during the casette and CD craze...

The Website is down because they have their own server and that server went offline when the blackouts occured

Well Montreal is renowned for its cuisine...and they have the best Jazz in the world (can't remember where I read that, it was some jazz mag a few years back...). Also, they have the biosphere, the botanical gardens, and heh...St. Catherine's street at night

I think the slave drive idea is best as well