It's a nice idea that the Sound Science section of head-fi should actually utilize scientific method, but I think you'll find it a lost cause. Go to hydrogenaudio.org, where moderators will actually warn users for making unverifiable claims.

Uh, I guess you only download music since it seems you've never heard of transcoding your music... There are a tonne of programs that will let you transcode flac to mp3... Foobar2000 to name just one. If you want to have flac on your mp3 player because you think it sounds better... Well...

Well you know, Sennhieser has been around a really long time, have a huge loyal customer base, and isn't disappearing anytime soon. This item is really a collectable, and for some people that has a sentimental value worth this price tag. The true value of an item is what a person is willing to...

I've had my earphones for about a year and a half and there is no problem. Old earphones still work. I considered writing a guide on how to take care of earphones, but it seems way too pretentious. What it boils down to is that people need to stop wrapping the drat wire around their mp3...

On this forum, with the advice people give, many are doing themselves hearing damage. There is no headphone (CONTROVERSY =P) that requires an amplifier to make it loud enough. The driver is never more than an inch from your ear, it doesn't need that much power even if your headphone says '300...

Well, the strato is something that helps them sell CDs and tickets to their performances. It's really not as insane a price to pay as you might think it would be, when it increases profit.

As well they should, considering the people who sell those cables are crooks that don't spend more than $40 to make a cable that is inferior to the standard.

For $800 I'll put a cassette player in a fancy box too  

I don't think people look at this thing and think 'expensive.' I think I trust dfkt on the insides, too.

Musicians are creative people and audiophiles are people who like to shop lol. Both like music, but the musician looks at the composition of the song for what should be improved, while the audiophile looks at the quality of the reproduction. As long as the quality of the reproduction isn't...

http://www.audiotronic.ca/Products/Detail/218233 I seriously see these all the freaking time. I don't know what it is about them... I've never liked to be elitist about audio, so I don't scoff at people who wear ibuds or whatever, but when I first saw these I thought 'wow, those look kind of...

I wish I could just try the K701 to see if they are really so different as people claim. I like my 650s a lot, but if the 701s actually sound reasonably different it would add variety into my life.

192 kb/s mp3 is perfect... It's 30 kb/s above what is tested to be imperceptible. FLAC is an archival format worth having (on an external harddrive), but it'll eat up all your HD space if you use your PC's dedicated harddrive (depending on whether or not you use it for anything else, I guess)...

More of an excuse to play with my camera than to show off my mp3 player.. http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/5076/dsc0416i.jpg

Well this is standard protocal and you really screwed up... Costs a lot of money to evacuate a building so that no one can work. There's nothing paranoid about this... Government buildings cannot accept suspicious packages. crap happens though, I guess.