I have a pair of MM 550-Xs arriving tomorrow and will report back on them. I mainly bought them for audio on the go and phone communications. I have trouble with single-sided devices on phone conversations and have been using an extremely painful pair of Nokia on-the-ear wired headphones for...

I own both. I have the D5000 on all day at work. I listen to the RS-1's at home at night. For anything but the most serious of listening sessions the D5000 would be my headphone of choice. The quality of all of the cans mentioned is at a high enough threshold where sound quality becomes more of...

Bangraman, I agree with the sentiment that eliminating noise from your PC would be a wise start. In particular, I would go for a fanless, diskless desktop with a storage server located elsewhere. I have a like this and am very pleased. A good place to search for fanless machines would be here...

Quote: Originally Posted by crazychimp132 I don't have a lot of technical knowledge, but I have an idea that I think is cool. It seems we already have most of the parts necessarry for a high-quality MP3 player available, in one piece. Anyone heard of Headroom BitHead? .... So, why...

Ooh, yeah, I am up for a meet in Lawrence. I can bring my Grado RS-1s and my recently completed PACE. Would love to hear some of the other people's gear.

Oh, absolutely it can have an effect on the noise. I had a major issue with my PPA + Grado RS-1s that took over a month to work out. This issue (hissing) was not present at all with Sennheiser HD-600s.

Sounds good to me. Almost done with the semester!

I am totally up for doing something, though I would really like for one of my friends who ordered some Sennheiser HD-650s to get them to add to the collection for the meet. Sennheiser is having issues with their stock due to the fire at their Ireland facilities in May. But, of course, having a...

Hmm, so, it seems like there is some good interest here. How do people feel about Saturday, August 21st or Sunday, August 22nd? I am amenable to a wide variety of choices, but in general I think a weekend afternoon would be a fairly ideal time. I would rather get something together before too...

Yeah, I live in Lawrence KS too...right about 15th and Iowa. I am a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) and a Masters student in Computer Science at KU. I have a friend with a pair of Sennheiser 600s and a Musical Fidelity Xcan v2 who would also likely be into coming to any meet we might get...

I would really like to have a KC meet. I am sure there are at least 10 ppl out there who should be in the KC area and willing to bring some gear so that we could all sample different sounds. I would be up for meeting in either the KC or the Lawrence area. I just went and listened to the new...