I finally recieved the gray (blue) knowles dampers from mouser and the clarity I was missing in the mids/highs with the browns and ety greens are back. The vocals are more forward and has an overall better crispness. The sound stage also seems larger. The bass is certainly less pronouced with...

Slim142 - FLAC vs. other lossless formats is a raging debate and I'm certainly not qualified to weigh in. That said, to me lossless is lossless and how one type sounds may be more related to the software/ DAC. I have heard some folks say AIFF is faster to decode, but others say the clock cycles...

I've put the green ety dampers/filters in my SE535s this morning and have been listening to them for a few hours. In comparison with the brown knowles filters the vocals seem to be a little more forward and there is certainly still ample bass. They highs still don't seem as crisp as they did...

Thanks for the tip. I have a bunch of ety green filters/dampers from my er-4p that I will have to try in my SE535s. I ordered a set of different knowles dampers many weeks ago and only the browns have been delivered so far (the rest are back-ordered). The browns (1000 ohm) certainly add some...

Here's a partial answer. iTunes does support 24 bit in ALAC and AIFF. iTunes does not like FLAC, but there are a number of free lossless decoders you can use to convert to ALAC. I haven't tried wav files (native CD) but it likely does. I've stored 192 and 96 kHz (24 bit) files in iTunes (ALAC...

GameGuppy - I should have also qualified my remarks to include that I have not used an external amp, so I may not know what I'm missing. The gain levels I've used on both those devices using the DT-1350s have never been above about 75%, and I do like to listen to loud music on occasion (I...

I have the Beyerdynamic 1350 headphones but I haven't tried the momentums so I can't help with a comparison. However I can say that I can drive them easily without an external amp with my AK100 dac/amp. I also just checked them out on my daughter's iPod touch and they sound good with that also...

Thank you for the responses cswann1 and whirlwind. I didn't know that some of the newer remasters were geared toward the iPod mp3 folks, but that makes sense. I have noticed that they have somehow boosted the sound level or newer CD's (I don't know if that is a good thing or not). That's...

I recently purchased a used pair of Grado RS1i headphones. They sound great, but what really surprised me is how good some of old CDs now sound. Most of these CDs I really haven't listened to much over the past few years since they have sounded terrible on my IEMs (Shure Se535), other...

That is probably the correct one. Although they look metal on the website. The one i have is pretty old and is basically a thin wood screw in a black plastic holder. The screw end on the plastic one I have is a little flakey (when loose it slips into the holder). One of the stock dampers broke...

As long as I don't know what I'm missing, I will be satisfied (plus I spent a lot on audio this month - new headphones and mod).

If you already have the SE535s, you might want to try replacing the dampers. See: http://www.head-fi.org/t/663273/se530-535-acoustic-filter-mod-more-sq-improvement-than-cables-dampers#post_9711106 I just started using the brown (1000 ohm) dampers (ordered a few different types from mouser.com...

I opted for the RWAK100 mod to drive my low impedance IEMs instead of using a separate amp. It now sounds fantastic with my Shure SE5353s. It also can drive my Grado RS1is are a reasonable gain / sound level. I'd like to check out the advantages of a separate portable amp in the future, but for...

I received both the G cushions (not from Grado, but less expensive ones from Ear Zonk via Amazon) and the sennheiser yellow flat cushions. They both sound much smoother with a wider soundstage than with the stock L cushions, probably due to the increased distance between your ear and the driver...

I just tried out the browns (the grays and whites are still backordered from mouser) on my SE535s with a recently-modded rwak100. The removal of the stock dampers was easy using the Etymotic tool that came with my ER-4ps (although one split during the removal). I agree with Davee5's impressions...