After having read through this thread, I'm still torn. Please give me a one word response...Should I get the LE's over the standards? Yes or no.   (Sorry to be blunt, but I'm just so confused as to which pair to get!)

I don't even own the ATH-M50 (yet) but that's what I think you should go with. They seem to  be the best set you can get for the price. Plus, they're also under $150. I know you'd probably rather spend closer to $100, but what's an extra $30 gonna do when you're paying for a quality item? It's...

I'm also a newbie, but from what I've seen on the forums, I bet you'll get a lot of recommendations for the Audio Technica ATH M50. Once I grew up and got past the Bose phase, my first pair of quality headphones were in fact the Sennheiser HD598s. I love them to death, they sound wonderful and...

Hey all, new to the Grado Fan Club here. Don't own a pair yet, but I'm banking on getting a pair of the 225i's very soon. But my question is this: does anyone know of a website or a place where I can bargain for prices? For example, I'm looking to get three pairs of the 60i's for Christmas...

I'll order those right now if they're that good. Does anyone have any experience with the two phones I mentioned in the original post?

The 200's are only around 15 dollars on Amazon. Would it be a safer idea to go with the 350's for around 40?

Thanks for the link, but it actually didn't work. I'll check out those two headphones, though.

I'm sorry if there was a thread on this. I searched and couldn't find a recent one. If I missed it, feel free to delete this one and direct me to that thread. Thanks.   Anyway, I've always just used the iPhone earbuds at the gym. It's time to grow up. There are two lines I'm looking at right...

I actually do think it might be that I have downloaded a hi-res file.

Possibly. How would I go about checking that? I just downloaded another album (the new McCartney rerelease of Ram) and it's upwards of 100MB a file.

Quote:   Even if I was leaning towards a $60 FiiO just as a precursor?   Quote:   How can I find out if it's at 16/44? Is that a setting on XLD? 

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Bump.   Here's an update. I've been using XLD and it seems to work beautifully. Very simple.   However, I have a question. I have downloaded a torrent of Ok Computer by Radiohead in FLAC. I have also ripped the same CD onto my hard drive using Apple Lossless Encoder in iTunes. So I put...

Quote: Awesome. And I promise, this will be the last question (for now), although it may be the stupidest. How do I make sure that the input information is the same as the output in iTunes?

Quote: If I can't figure it out here (sorry again for the amateur questioning and the wrong thread placement), I'll move it on over.   But, I wouldn't mind using ALAC. I have two programs on my Mac at this point, Max and Fluke. I have grabbed a couple of FLAC albums online and just...