Has anyone here recently purchased one of the older style RS-1s (wooden button in the middle) from a Canadian retailer? Been trying to find some, but the shops I know that offer Grado only have the newer, buttonless ones in stock.

I was browsing audiocubes2 when I came across this DAC. Surprisingly, I couldn't find anything here about it. That, or maybe I just suck at using the search function. They also have a dedicated headphone amp in: CEC HD53R

After reading through a whole bunch of cable threads, I was wondering how much the average head-fi'er spends on aftermarket cables in total. It can be any type of cable, whether for headphones (Zu Mobius/Cardas/Etc), interconnects, power cables, whatever! As long as it is used in your audio set...

My current setup is a Fubar II DAC > Audio Technica AT-HA20 > HD650. At this point, I knew the HD650s were being held back by both the source and amp, and was planning an upgrade to a Zhaolu 2.5 > Gilmore Lite w/DPS. Then I took a step back and thought: this is going to cost me at least $750...

To begin with, I tended to be very skeptical when it comes to some of the things said about higher end headphones on this forum. I first came away from head-fi about two or three years ago with a HD580 and a simple Pimeta amp...throttled through the line out of my computer's soundcard . Of...

I'm having some troubles with my Fubar II USB DAC, where sound is only playing through the right channel. Double checking the rca outputs to my headphone amp (an audiotechnica AT-HA20), and making sure the cables were properly connected, and also using a secondary pair of generic cables besides...

So I ordered a Corda Aria from ttvj.com about a week and a half ago and it arrived today looking great. I set the amplifier to its correct voltage rating for my region and connected the USB dac to my computer. I made sure my headphones were connected securely to the headphone jack, like the...

I was rummaging around in the basement the other day and I found a Technics SL-P999 that my uncle left lying around while moving a decade ago. I'm ashamed to admit that I've never listened to CD's from a dedicated source before. So I'm thinking about dusting this thing off and hauling it off...

I'm really happy with a pair of HD580's that I just bought. But when replacing my old computer speakers with them, I also forgot to lower the volume. The volume sounded fine at max for the speakers, but with the headphones they were loud enough to make me rip them off in a second and leave a...