Hey guys, I am a normally-headed human being, with slightly bigger ears than usual and glasses. I am looking for very comfortable, inexpensive headphones. I so far ruled down my possibilities to the Sony MDR-V6 Koss PRO DJ-100 Shure Shr440 edit: I have also at hand a pair of JVC...

Hey guys, I am a normally-headed human being, with slightly bigger ears than usual and glasses. I currently own a pair of Sennheiser HD 25-1 ii, super-awesome but really uncomfortable. I travel very often for work and they are amazing in isolating aircraft sounds and noisy people, but sitting...

    Аукцыон - хомба from the album Юла   From St. Petersburg, this album is absolutely amazing and superbly recorded. Alt-jazz / Avant-gard jazz-rock, not sure how to define them but believe me the album is amazing.   You read the band name Auktyon, the title of this song is Homba (H...

Turns out my guesses where indeed no more than random guesses, and my brain did all the "justification" for me (and many of ours did too, I see).   Out of curiosity yesterday I did a second blind test with some of my music with my girlfriend.   Only piece I could get right to be...

Quote: it would be great if, alongside with the answers, you publish some statistics per group and file type.   Table 1: will tell us the percentage of users that got the answers correctly either by group and by filetype  GROUP 128kbps 320 kps lossless tot participants...

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Quote: I checked and you are as wrong as I was.

      here are mine. Was not easy at all, honestly, to distinguish them. Actually, I mostly have no clue to distinguish 320 from Lossless, and actually 128 is not obvious to me also. I also suspect than when confronting the "alleged" 128 with the source, my mind was tricking me.  ...

Quote:   if you are into modern classical compositors, Emerson Quartet's run on Shostakovich: The String Quartets is amazing. Not symphonic music thought.

Shades of Blue by Madlib is a very well recorded live play of Bluenote jazz music remixed. I'm not into hip-hop myself but the jazz-side of works such as this one is pretty amazing. This album is  golden, and recorded masterfully.

Luke Vibert - Shadows   if you like some electro with good soundstage and not killer basses (i.e. k701 over m50s)

just a few posts down here..   However, does not matter. Just listen to them and they'll get as good as they possibly can. They are headphones and won't get offended. All they need is, allegedly, to shake their drivers a bit.

I never fully understood this need for fat burn-in. I do think that burn-in is good for headphones to get better with time (my AKG701 got remarkably better after a few hours at moderate levels). But the good thing about it is feeling the improvement, isn't it? What's good about blindly plugging...

Quote:   I quote this vigorously.    Very well recorded, amazing soundstage, bright and fun.

Quote: he speaks Euros, so he's probably in Europe. I am too. We have 240V A/C. Magni & Modi come only at 110V - from the Schiit FAQ because of cost restrictions.