amped: bd DT990   unamped: JVC Flats, yes, I like them better than KSC75

Quote: Dr Dre does RAP, What would any rap artist who sample other peoples music and alter it and add some unintelligible gibberish to the mix know about good SQ? Just because the person is famous for mixing rap albums doesn't make them an expert on good SQ. In fact, he probably has...

Quote: You mean John Lennon's Across the Universe? He wrote that after he left the Beatles and the best version is actually him and Bowie doing it on the Young Americans album. Best SQ recording of the song and best rendition of the song, IMO, but my opinion is fact. ;)

I listened to the Beats in-store on their setup with loud or really loud only volume settings and even on the just loud setting they were distorting. Sounded like they couldn't handle the really loud setting the people at Monster chose and the drivers were damaged from it. Seriously, all three...

Dude, the DT880 and DT990 use the *EXACT* same driver so I think you grossly exaggerate their difference in SQ. Actually, I find lots of people on this site exaggerate SQ and I am finding this site of less and less use to me because there are far too many opinionated people here and not enough...

Quote: There is an issue with my noscript plugin for Firefox and the quick reply.

Quote: My Dad built a Heathkit tape deck and console color TV. He built his own speakers too. I bought my first stereo at 18 and my first set of headphones was that year too.

Quote: I was thinking of driving the blues highway sometime just so I can see the crossroads where he sold his soul to the devil so he could play better blues guitar. Route 61.  

Quote: More importantly, your friends would not hear the difference between the flac and the mp3 anyway. That's assuming the mp3 is at least 192kb/s bit rate. Next I expect someone to say it is because I use crap speakers but I don't think Totem are classified as crap.

  Quote: Well, I convert the acc files to MP3. I've done the abx testing on me and a friend and we both failed to tell the dif. You would too if you just took the time to set up the test in foobar2000. The only people who make the claims you do are the same people who refuse to believe...

One last thing, I recently bought the new Antec Lanboy Air and all the fans have buitl in rpm control and have all fans on low rpm. It is fairly quitet and the two side fans you don't even really need to could dosconnect them for even more quiet. The case is $200.00 though and does not include a...

Another good option is to get a laptop. I bought an HP laptop for $445.00 and it has ATI for graphics so connect HDMI cable to it and then to my receiver and play music on my stereo from that. No fan noise at all in a laptop.

  Quote: The M50 do cover my ears completely but jut barely so put pressure on the edges of my ears and like you I found they made my ears sweat quite a lot. For comfort my DT990 are still king though because they don't use pleather and have very large cups. I think audio-technica should...

Yes, it is the ear clip design that causes it because the wire is so thin and just a little snag and it will come loose. But I tried Koss SportaPro and the headband is tight  and presses on the top of my ear so didn't find them comfortable enough for me. Maybe PortaPro is better choice.

I am not there, just pretend I am. Shipping costs is more than it is worth anyway. I am going to go search today for some new portable headphones and they won't be KSC-75.