thanks scottiebabie - picked up an old H/K 330C this weekend and built up an adapter to run the HE-5LEs from the speaker terminals.  Sound is fantastic, power is amazing, and cost was even better.  Leaves me a good bit of budget for music, other equipment and maybe some mods down the road.

Head-Fiers - I need help.  I have read a lot of the posts and I am totally stumpped.  I am looking for an amp for around 300 that can adequately power my HE-5LEs.     My current rig is amped by a HifiMan EF-2a (with RCA tubes) which I bought before the HE-5LEs.  I am not unhappy with the...

So I thought I would give a bit more of a post on the yurbuds after a bit of an extended listen / run.   My set-up is an ipod shuffle, standard ipod buds and the yurbuds.  Distance varies, longest being a marathon.  From the start, getting a good fit on the yurbuds is critical - too tight...

If you want something like the Ipod headphones but they get too loose, check out the yurbuds adapters (find a good running store or order online here - http://www.yurbuds.com/ybcart/get-sized?category_id=0.).  These things are added over the earbud and help keep it in your ear while letting you...

Aditya, Mine just plugged in and was automatically recognized but I am not on Win7.  If you have another computer you may want to check it out there to see if is an issue with the DAC v the computer (also, did you remember to switch the button to DAC?).   This link may help...

I'm a total noob with this but didn't the old amplifiers (70s-80s) put resistors in the output path for the headphone out?  Maybe you can modify a Y cable so that one side is cut with resisters in the signal path - the 650s are 300 ohm so if you want to get to that level you could run a few...