expected delivery tommorow. ordered day it became available.

I've had these for a few days. 30+ hours of burn in, bass is more controlled, highs are less harsh. My preference for IEMs is now IE8 > SE530 > Westone 3. I prefer the SE530 over the Westone 3 just for midrange. These are a fantastic buy at ~$250. Highly recommended. Build quality is superb...

A few upgrades for me... I bought a monitor stand for the amp. The dimensions are perfect for the MK VI! My headphone setup is connected to my computer and I'm a hard core gamer. My monitor is a behemoth (GDM FW900) and I wanted some more space to put stuff on my desk. The stand only...

Could you list some tracks or cds where you should be able to pinpoint the high roll offs? That would be very helpful. I have a lot of music, about 2 TB worth of lossless, but no live experience with real performances. I actually have lots of classical music but some of the stuff sounds quite...

Quote: Originally Posted by nauxolo Anyone know how this amp works with the Grado RS-1 and the Audio Technica ESW10JPN? What kind of 'phones are best for this amp I'm going to find out. I've yet to try out a desktop SS amp (only hybrids and tubes so far), so I'm pretty...

I'm not sure what people mean by the highs being rolled off. I think people are trying to say it's like Senn HD6XX with their smooth highs, so it's rolled off in that sense. I don't really feel that way with the Westone 3. The highs have a sparkle to me. Sorta like grados, but sorta not. I don't...

There's a decent deal going on for the PSP 2000 and PSP3000 bundle. See this Slick Deals thread. There are apparently some issues with scan lines on the 3000 lcd. I ordered one anyways. I love gaming and wanted to see what I was missing out on. I have all the major consoles. Side note...

New 'Nintendo DSi' Can Download Games, Take Pics, Play Music | Game | Life from Wired.com Bigger screen, $50 more, longer battery life, some download system, camera feature. April is the rumored arrival date. I have a DS lite with cyclods. 4gb mini SDHC is enough for me. I'm pretty...

Quote: Originally Posted by Ben Diss Didn't cafe zeenuts try these and not like them? On another note, can anyone tell me the difference between 5998's and JAN-5998's? Is there any? As far as physical properties go... The JAN 5998 are labeled in green while the normal Tung Sol...

Silver-Painted Plastic Gadgets Must Die I prefer an all black version, but that's so 80s. The design was more for acoustic rather than aesthetic reasons, I would hope. I actually think the HD 800 looks pretty cool and futuristic. I'd just get forget about it after the first day and not care...

Quote: Originally Posted by Bostonears The HD800 was very good in both transients and spacial precision. Better than the HD650, but not quite as good as the K1000. In my brief listening session, the HD800 sounded to me like an extremely well balanced headphone, meaning that it might not...

Another new proud owner here. It's pretty damn impressive how something so small can provide so much as a dac/amp. I'm going to stray a bit, but since I can confirm a few things now that I have the pico, I may as well. These are thoughts from using the Pico alone to drive headphones. Spent about...

I don't want to get too off topic, but I may as well finish what I started here. Sorry, tl;dr post incoming... I spent the weekend listening to a lot of my headphones and I've pretty much confirm that the K1000 (pushed by LD MKVI) and GS1000 (EF-1) are my favorite. Both sound very hi-end to...

For the lazy... Foobar The Vista output plugin the OP mentioned is named WASAPI output support, not WASPI. I remember reading about vista being bit-perfect so we wouldn't have to mess with asio or kernal streaming... ah well. More stuff to test out. Resampler based on Sox Preferences...

I've received two of my tubes this week. Mullard long plate and Brimar CV4003. Both were heavily oxidized. I didn't do a good job cleaning the Mullard long plates. I spent a few sessions with them (was wondering why it didn't sound too good). I gave it two treatments of deoxit prior. I had to...