Quote: Originally Posted by CountChoculaBot I don't trust the first guy kind of. Mostly because he's from Hong Kong, though. but you should. I bought the OPAMPs last week from him. Most guys in Hong Kong are serious (HK is not China scams)

d5000 with Musical Fidelity x-can v3 here. Sound is very good. I just received Herbie's audio ultrasonic 9 dampers for my 6922 tubes and cannot believe what I'm hearing with them. If you have a tube amp, you can fine tune the amount of bass of the D5000 by placing the dampers in the...

Quote: Originally Posted by Gradofan2 And... I would guess the new Musical Fidelity XCAN v8, or the XCAN v3, would also, though they are tube hybrid amps. The XCAN v3 sounds good with the Grados (32 ohms). Correct The D5000 is very good with a hybrid amp like the x-can v3...

Quote: Originally Posted by Cool_Torpedo the stock D5000 sound more bassy and inducing headache (I can listen to the DX1000 for hours without any fatigue) and I'm pretty convinced it's for the bass being resonant, distorted and badly controlled. There is probably another reason...

winamp. Don't know why some find it slow. I launch winamp in less than 1 second on my vista pc. Very fast, superb interface (bento) and great asio / flac support.

Try the Denon D5000. Not harsh, not sibilant. Very good out of the box. ps: get a amp.

I "love" my denon D5000 headphones with my MF x-can v3 amplifier connected to the prelude. Maybe you need a AMP for your SR80. a darkvoice perhaps ? note: do not activate the headphone optimization in the x-fi panel

I want to connected my PC xfi prelude with toslink: -> DAC (toslink in to XLR balanced out) - > tube pre-amp with XLR in/out -> Dynaudio BM5A active monitors XLR in I was thinking of the apogee mini-dac and using a little dot MKIV SE as a pre-amp however it doesn't have balanced XLR...

audio creation mode 96khz bit matched. Not enough bass ?? Launch winamp, add ASIO support (asio.dll) + resampling at 96khz in ultra mode. Another world, really. I use it with my dynaudio BM5A active monitors (waiting my tube pre-amp and my OPA627 opamps for my perfect home studio setup)...

I use winamp with asio + upsampling at 96khz in ultra mode. Sounds good.

I have a HD650, beyer 990 and a ultrasone 780 and just received the DENON D5000 The D5000 is fantastic. Compared to HD650: Better soundstage and deep/warm bass. no veil (mids) Compared to Beyer 990: the Denon sounds like beyer with better bass, differents mids but more organic overall...

Quote: Originally Posted by Deckard79 nah mate, don't worry. I read a thread on here about counterfeits and it suddenly occurred to me I could get stung too... some of the stuff on this forum is terrifyng. How can ebay get away with such lax controls? fake grado? where? Just...

Is this viral advertising for a ebay seller?

I thought OP was for output filtering. curious too.

maybe the line out in the prelude is "variable out" instead of "fixed out". If bit-perfect is activated I'm not sure it is important. Correct me if I'm wrong. note: Prelude -> optical out -> dedicated DAC (Benchmark DAC1, Xeces ...) -> headphone amp... Prelude (DAC +OPAMP) ->...

Quote: Originally Posted by Cry Havoc I almost sent my 780s back when I first heard them. Awful. No bass and very screechy highs. Had exactly the same sound out of the box the first time. Need at least 3 hours of burn in to "activate" bass. Cans are now good after 100 hours of...

Quote: Originally Posted by Lad27 What is interesting in guy stating his Denon 5000 sound better than 780? Or is there consensus already that 780 do sound better than D5000? I'm not getting it. In the beginning the 780 was very good with great bass. Then, it was very good with...

build quality is very good (heavy weight plastic and aluminium). I wonder if the treble problem goes away after burn-in or using another cable (alo? copper?).

Quote: Originally Posted by peteham For what's it worth, had them a week, running them through a Gilmore Lite. Nice bass, no sibilance, quite comfortable. No, they are no match for my D5000s, but at half the price, and their portability, I am very pleased. I never heard sibilance, and I...

no problem but.... confused.

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hey you can about HD650 bass I don't care HD650 has too much bass compared to HD600. everybody knows it even sennheiser And you forgot the...the....ve...vei....veil? yes, when I first connected the 780 there was no bass then after 2 hours there's too much bass. It looks weird but it is...

no problem. just my *humble* opinion souperman. for the moment, I don't love them at all but I don't think it is blanketed statements.

Quote: Originally Posted by Torzwo They are so damned uneven sounding it's maddening trying to make a decision...one track sounds good and another sounds like garbage. +2. If this continue I'll just think that the 780 itself is *garbage* and the edition 9 a rip-off (if it...

Quote: Originally Posted by musicmaker Welcome to head-fi. Sorry about your wallet. These are bass shy ? I haven't heard that one before. To me, they had plenty off bass even out of the box. With burn in the bass definition got better and tighter. yes I *was* surprised...