Great to hear the stories of music lovers, that is what I've come to expect from Head-Fiers, more so than traditional 2 channel speaker based system ultra-high enders.     Two super-fi guys with systems over $400,000 have said nearly the same exact thing to me in the last month.   The first...

Spritzer is so correct about burn-in.  A concept used by dealers and manufacturers to keep folks from returning things, and to get them to become used to the colorations of their gear so that other gear sounds wrong.     I especially like his last line about the boards literally cooking.  A...

I don't know why you seem so offended by me, I have no ulterior motives here, no agenda, other than to help folks with my experience.     Again, you take me out of context and skew the meaning of what I wrote with your own interpretation.  Read my line again, that you quoted:  "...........I...

Hey Cat Face, we are on the same page.  Consumption as a reward is fine.  My issue is that then so many of these folks in audio use that expensive system as a badge of their own expertise, and pontificate to others about how it is the best, most real sounding gear, citing manufacturer technical...

Smeckles, you don't get it and you try to infer what I have not written but what you think I mean.  You have your agenda, fine.  Obviously others in this thread know exactly what I'm talking about.   And no, I have not had so much equipment due to mistakes.  I have no bone to pick about...

Your observation is very valid.  But at Head-Fi it is a much better situation at the high end forums that are about speaker-based systems.   Head-Fiers are way more into music I believe.  Maybe part of it is that you can't as easily show off, while narrating and pointing in space about how great...

Thank you, Wink, surely you were right, I found several things he writes to be right on target.  I don't know him, don't know if I would agree on other writings or not, but he sure is on solid ground in that piece of writing.  A couple of quotes I love are:   "........ but for the most part...

Smeckles, maybe you are not experienced enough in traditional high end audio to really understand just how incredibly powerful the press is in that market, and how dysfunctional that market really is, and how it has become more about equipment than music in large part.      Beyond that, you...

Quote: Yes, it happens in Head-Fi, but the numbers/percentages are so different.  The high end guys really fall for the dumbest stories on tremendously expensive equipment while the Head-Fi guys much more relate things to music, more talk about music, and buy "sound" rather than "stories"...

So many of you guys on this forum hear it straight and tell it straight, unlike the traditional high end audio guys who mostly seem to believe any sales hyperbole that is dished out, including huge changes with break in.  The high end industry has been ruined by insanely expensive equipment...

Let's hope the headphone scene does not follow in the footsteps of high end audio where equipment gets interest solely due to shocking pricing; where folks assume new physics is being discovered every day due the the over the top claims of non-science "designers" in their tiny boutique...

You can train yourself to ignore the cringing, you can soften them with soft amps, you can use ultra clean components all the way through to give them the best signal possible, but that peaky behavior is going to be there to a degree, it's the nature of the headphones.  I am fully expecting that...

You can more independently manipulate the impedance the headphones and amps see, as well as attenuation, by adding another parallel resistor after R2 and then another series resistor after that. 

I find them a little hard against my head too, nothing to do with the shape, just the hard foam.  Or too thin foam.  I am just going to wrap them in some nice soft foam when I get a chance.     But I just love my LCD-3.  I can listen to some of my more "borderline on edginess" records, not...

Having a wide variety of amps, using them in balanced mode, I still find my HD800 brighter than Stax 009, just like some previous posters said.  I prefer more weight and body over the 009, so I prefer my LCD3, but in no way would I call my 009 bright.