Okay cool, thank you; that’s what I was hoping. It’s a very reliable, precision connection (I looked up the company and the component), so I’m relieved to hear it’s fine. Will love these for years to come.

Just picked these up, they sound wonderful! Tested particularly with a recent recording of the Chopin Ballades. I studied piano, and this music, for many years, and I’ve never heard an iem with as realistic an overall tonal balance as this one! Truly revelatory, I can almost tell what piano they...

Heh! Simple! Choose another forum in a different, or even related, subject area, and troll there! Always works for me.... ;) Just don't let it distract you from enjoying where you are right now, though..... Or, alternately, commit yourself to listening to all of Wagner's operas, all the way...

Excellent! I hope you have many years of bliss with that combo, it sounds killer! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I have to secretly agree, there's too much fun being had here. BTW I'd take the SE846 over the Etys in an instant any day, I just like the fact that people here are kind and polite even in their disagreement. All the discussion is in good spirits, and is not the "mine is bigger than yours" type...

truck, Absolutely agreed, I just wasn't happy with someone beating up on the Etymotic. It's a hugely successful design, created with great science, rigor and discipline, and is loved by many. But you should always go for what sounds great to you; trust your ears, not the specs, the Internet, or...

There's this thing called "sound masking." When there is emphasis -- be it spatial in a mix, with a number of instruments or voice and instrument in the same frequency range inhabiting the same aural location in the recording mix, or be it imbalance in a transducer, with emphasis on lower...

I would have no problem recommending the Shure SE-315; it has a very pristine, accurate sound, and gives you plenty of bass when it's there in the music. Plus, once you fall in love with its sound, there's the 535 and 846 up from there. :) Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Deicide's latest is quite excellent in overall tonality. In the Minds of Evil. If you like something a little more harmonic and less technical, almost any of Draconian's albums of the past few years are positively majestic. Personally I'm particularly enjoying Deathspell Omega's Paracletus...

Nothing wrong with $20 earbuds if they sound great! ;) Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Right, I think it had more to do with distortion reduction, but the results I vaguely recall were supposed to sound "sweeter" as a result. One of the early experiments in trying to "improve" 16-bit/44kHz playback, which doesn't need improvement. At the time, the problem was more one of...

This will give you all the info you need on HDCD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Definition_Compatible_Digital Hope that helps!

It does, I have a few HDCD discs, and they are slightly "sweeter/warmer" than standard CD. I don't see it as any improvement in accuracy, it really is just application of a global sound sweetening processing onto the disc. Works for certain types of music, gets old if you hear it all the time...

Yet again..... cleaner 1s and 0s! You know how when a bit is not quite off, there's a bit of on- ness to it, or when it's on, you can sense the threat of impending off? Stressful! This fixes that. You might also want to consider a really expensive DAC and titanium cables, to remove any...

To make myself clear: the possibility of a using a standardized listening test as a measure of anything appears to be null, to me. There is no way of sufficiently calibrating any instrument for any such purpose, and the variables will never be not fuzzy (I hear better at 6 than I do at 22 only...