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    Is it worth using nice wire for the ground channel?

    Short answer: yes. Explanation: the ground channel carries the return signal. So the sooner electricity gets flushed from the drivers, the sooner it arrives there. Ground wires have to be at least the same quality as signal wires, if not better. This also applies to studio wiring by the way: as...
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    Flawless albums

    Godflesh - "Pure", "Songs of Love and Hate", "Messiah" Final - "2", "Solaris", "The First Millionth of A Second" Jan Garbarek - "In Praise of Dreams", "Song for Everyone" Black Sabbath - "Sabotage", "Heaven & Hell". Carcass - "Heartwork" Ketil Bjornstad - "Floating" Loop - "A Gilded...
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    Anyone interested in the subgenre of Shoegaze?

    One word: Jesu. Even got the "Duchess/Veiled" vinyl EP of theirs (it was sold out in two hours or so).   My (very heavily modded) ATH-M40 work fine off pretty much any amp with that (also Godflesh and pretty much anything else related, like Final and Solaris BC). Now of course they're...
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    Official Free FLAC File Music Sharing Thread

    Well, this is a little side effect of a project of mine. The project itself is a GM/GS drumkit sampler, Solar Battery.   As you may guess, a MIDI drumkit requires a lot of testing to make sure it works with standard MIDI files. So here comes an entire album mixed with the new drumkit, as a...
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    The official "most OVERRATED headphones" thread

    Did anyone say "Monster"? Even if they did, it's worth saying again.
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    A review/comparison of the inexpensive Audio-Technica ATH-M2X

    There's a simple mod for these which boosts them to about the detail level of Grado headphones... What you need is Blu-tack and Dynamat and plastic fibrefill (of the kind that's often used for stuffing dolls and small pillows).   Detach the pads with their supporting platforms (just pull them...
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    Which come closer to AKG K 240 DF?

      Wa-a-ay back then it was actually the kind of bass you'd get out of small, precise studio monitor speakers mounted correctly (with no obstacles or bass-reinforcing walls). It is, technically, rather realistic (what you get is what you hear in a mix, more or less, they're not really that...
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    Which come closer to AKG K 240 DF?

    Having both the K-240DF and Monitor and Studio... They're nothing alike. The DF are co-o-old. And this is coming from other monitor headphones (ATH-M40). That is more or less all right really, they can get nice with the right type of music, but, there's that other quirk which is rather putting...
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    Pics of Headphones... Rules: ONE PIC. NO WORDS!

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    Pics of Headphones... Rules: ONE PIC. NO WORDS!

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    Reply to review by 'seidhepriest' on item 'Audio Technica ATH-M40FS Precision StudioPhones'

    BTW, it might be a different production batch, but the ones here are anything but bass-shy. They're accurate though, no exaggerations. Frequency response is close to straight-response monitor speakers. The MDR-V6, last time tried, were quite fatiguing and shouty in the treble.
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    Explain your avatar

    Daedolon from Hexen, in grayscale. That's all.
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    Reply to review by 'seidhepriest' on item 'Audio Technica ATH-M40FS Precision StudioPhones'

    Also: the shielding now is copper braid, originally it was aluminium foil, which is worse.
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    Reply to review by 'seidhepriest' on item 'Audio Technica ATH-M40FS Precision StudioPhones'

    Read my own review for the details, here's a photo of the current setup: http://www.solarstudios.net/images/ATH-M40-Braid.jpg   In brief: silver-plated copper shielded wiring, Blu-tack driver stabilisation, Blu-tack, cotton, soft plastic fibre padding inside the cups (isolation++), 3.5 mm. fat...
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    Reply to review by 'seidhepriest' on item 'Audio Technica ATH-M40FS Precision StudioPhones'

    That's what they were like here, too, for the first week. Utterly cold and no contrast whatsoever. Later on, they had music played through with an adapted EQ for a night non-stop, and they improved. Burn-in with the right EQ makes all the difference. Now they're pretty much straight in frequency...
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