I'm looking for a pair of speakers to match the sound of my current headphone configuration: a pair of HD650 off a Singlepower MPX3 Slam SE (Sylvania 6SN7W as driver, 6BX7 output). The most important qualities of this setup to me are the smoothness and fullness/richness of the sound, I guess...

OK, this has been bugging me lately. How would you compare a properly amped K1000 and balanced HD650 in the following areas: Imaging- By this I don't mean the soundstage size, but the ability to place and locate sounds in a 360 degree space around you. I so miss this from the L3000, and the...

One of the more common bits of advice given here is to stop lusting after gear (ha, right ), cure upgradeitis, and get into buying lots of music. Sounds good, seems like it goes back to why we're in this hobby to begin with (enjoying music), so I did. Maybe I went about it the wrong way, but...

So, for various reasons I'll be moving from headphones to speakers. I have a couple of general questions, though: 1. Is it possible to have speakers way too big for the room? I'm only looking at bookshelves, but I'm wondering if some larger ones (Tyler Acoustic Linbrook Sigs, primarily) are...

There's a chance, for various reasons, that I'll be going with a relatively small-footprint SS amp instead of a Singlepower for my new setup. This will be paired with the L3000 and an SACDmods Sony NS9100ES. What I'm looking for is soundstage, detail, transparency, and a bit of warm sweetness...

From what I can tell in pictures, it looks like the pads on the AT woodies (L3000, W5000 in particular) sit supraaurally instead of circumaurally- the pads sit on top of the ears instead of sealing around them. I'm wondering if this is true, and if so, how it affects the comfort of the...

Northwestern football coach Randy Walker passed away last night, supposedly due to a heartattack. As a student at NU, I had respect for him as a coach of a successful and enjoyable football program. As a member of NUMB (marching band), he dropped in on a few of our rehearsals and expressed his...

I'm ready to call Mikhail and order my Singlepower amp (going for a PPX3-6SN7 w/ slam adapters, maxing out my options ). The only catch is that the way I'm paying for this is through camera gear I sold, but I won't get paid until later next week. When do you pay in the order process? Can I...

I'm pretty sure I'm going with a universal player for my next source. I'm looking for Redbook CD and DVD video performance in one box- I don't care about SACD or DVD-A. That said, video is by far a secondary consideration compared to audio. The system I'll be building around this will probably...

Title pretty much says it all...has anyone tried both the HD650 and modded K340, preferably balanced, and preferred the HD650? Even if you ended up liking the K340 more, what do you think its weaknesses are? Which do you think is a more all-genre headphone? After searching, most of the...

1.) How much (if at all) do they leak? Does a woody mod change this? I don't care about isolation, just leakage. 2.) Does the inside of the earpads touch the tips of your ears, or are they big enough to go completely circumaurally without touching? (with velour pads) Thanks

I'm having a senseless outburst of teh upgradeitis!!!!1 and so I'm looking at home systems now. I keep seeing how people talk on and on about how the HD650 is so much better balanced- but, this usually has involved $$$$. Then I stumbled across a two single-ended amp cabled to be balanced setup...

I have clear sonic and system goals (or so I think), but for some reason I feel really unsure about where I could go with my system. Right now I'm using a pair of Senn 580, defoamed, with 600 grills, with a stock cable off of an Echo Indigo. Listening preferences are in my profile, Pat...

How would you compare the soundstage of a high-end custom IEM (ACS T2PRO for me) with the typical Grado soundstage? It seems like they'd be similar, since people always talk about how "close" the Grado sound is and just because of how IEMs work. But that seems kind of too simple- do higher-end...

Do any of the DAPs out there, especially the Vision M, that support WMA support WMA Lossless?

OK, I'm absolutely in love with the Sennheiser "sound", specifically my HD600-grilled HD580's. But, I really need to switch to an IEM for size, convenience, and most importantly environmental concerns (ambient noise). I'll probably end up with a custom-molded IEM in the far future, but that...

I'm working on my semi-first CMoy (I tried one a while back w/ 2 single-channel opamps that I sucked so badly at and gave up halfway through), and I'm getting a lot of static and distortion with it. I've checked for solder bridges and shortcircuits, but see none, which brings it down to two...