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  1. astroid

    New Grado RS2E Driver

    Just upgraded to a new RS2E, sounds great but noticed that the driver is no longer red but is silver with black ink on it. Anyone else get this and is it maybe an X based Driver?
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    Have Questyle gone bust?

    I am finding them impossible to contact, tried email, phone, social media and nadda. Or is it that they just don't do support well? Hope they haven't, really like my kit.
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    HD569 and HD598cs not the same!

    Had the 569 for six months, really liked it but preferred the headband on my 579 so decided to get the 598cs which by all accounts is identical to 569 except cosmetics. Well the 598cs sounds like the 569 with a major drop in bass impact. The 569 has excellent bass going down to 20hz in my tests...
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    Orpheus 2 HE1060 vs Utopia

    Jude has heard both, i have heard Utopia in a showroom setting but not the Orpheus. The Utopia has a beautiful signature, sounds simply 'right' to me, i couldn't actually fault it. I tested LCD 4, PM-1 and few others at the same time and the Utopia cleaned the floor with them imo. Now question...
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    driver matching test!

    http://www.audiocheck.net/soundtests_headphones.php Driver matching test Interesting test, came across it as i had vocals on some songs that seemed to come very slightly from the left on my HD700. The test was perfectly centered except a small waver at very high frequency. I later tried the...
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    Astell&Kern Jr vs AK100ii

    I recently bought the Jr and really enjoy its smooth sound. You know how it I though, last night I actually dreamt about the 100/120 and in it I already owned a AK240 but I was having my house reposessed!! I needed to downgrade to avoid becoming homeless but I couldn't choose. Anyway I know the...
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    Musical Fidelity MF200

    New review posted here http://www.head-fi.org/products/musical-fidelity-mf200/reviews/13132   Any questions, shoot!
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    want to clear something up about T70p.......

    It has fantastic bass, deep, tight and accurate.
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    T70P - will i like it?

    so i have the chance of a cheap T70P , i have the K550 and the bass level is fine for me. I have read that the T70P is bright as well, i enjoy the MF100 , is it brighter than that?
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    New Beyerdynamic 'Custom' Street headphone

      http://north-america.beyerdynamic.com/shop/hah/headphones-and-headsets/studio-and-stage/studio-headphones/custom-street-black.html   IDEAL COMPANION ON THE GO CUSTOM STREET is the latest offspring of beyerdynamic’s acclaimed CUSTOM headphone series. Like no other headphones in the world...
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    Awesome or Gimmick ? Sonys MDR-1ADAC

    http://community.sony.co.uk/t5/product-announcements-technologies/our-new-ifa-products-the-mdr-1adac-prestige-headphones/ba-p/1751467   Strange move Sony!
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    The Musical Fidelity MF100 , my newest love.

    Bowers and Wilkins, NAD, Kef and now Musical Fidelity. All well known established Hi-Fi brands, all keen to get a slice of a flourishing headphone market now worth over 8 billion dollars. When I first got wind of the B&W P5 I was pretty sceptical, expecting an average headphone disguised with...
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    Beyerdynamic cop vs Sony mdr-1r

    Sound quality only , what's better?
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    Just had to say .... the MDR-1 is.....

    An awesome portable headphone, i held off trying them as i was in a situation you married blokes might recognise,the one where you just know that if the words 'buy' and 'headphone' escape from your mouth just once more, your wife will verbally castrate you. anyhow i got in the good books and...
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    Philips Fidelio L2 ?

    Sept edition of hifi news is reviewing it http://www.hifinews.co.uk/ described as a revised version of the L1.
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    Whats the biggest innovation in headphone design in the last 10 years?

    Some might say the HD800 ring radiator, others will sight the new orpho drivers. I am not sure, noise cancelling or wireless come to mind or maybe how Sony managed to make a 70mm driver sound good in the MA900. Anyway , whats your take?
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    Lindy Premium Hifi Headphone's - one of lifes rare bargains.

    I have been lucky enough to be sent the Lindy Premium Hifi headphones for review (Thank you Lindy) , you may know them as the Brainwavz HM5 or the Fischer FA-003.   I am not sure if the Lindy’s are exactly the same, I know the accessories differ between the models but whether they share...
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    Hifi news USB cable shootout

    This month, they used a Sony Vaio laptop running foobar, thesycon 1.56 drivers to Musical Fidelity M1 S Dac, this served as a active usb to spdif convertor only  , then fed coaxial to a Devialet D-Premier DH amp. They also measured the cables using an Intel based USB transmitter as the source...
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    Is the sound of headphones about to change?

    30 years ago Gunther Theile suggested that diffuse-field response was the correct headphone response and the current free field response was not ideal. Harman international with a team led by Sean Olive is about to suggest a new response at the AES spring convention in Rome. The new response is...
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    Ultrasone Edition 12 and mysterious HFI-1000 wooooooo (ghost noise)!!!

    This has been posted in high end forum but in case you missed it :                 So we have a edition 10 but made of different materials, matt chrome etc (looks better imo).   Also we have mention of HFI-1000 , it could be an internal name of the edition 12 but i...
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    Bang and Olufsen launching new cans! Look nice imo

    http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/08/b-o-play-h3-h6-headphones-us-debut/     They look like AKG might be making them , the headband and mesh inside the cups look familiar!
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    Got new cans , what to expect?

    I managed to get a new set of Ultrasone Pro 750's for the princely sum of £79, i had the ULE 2200 and remember liking the sound a lot but i needed a closed set at the time so they went.   Anyway the Pro 750 doesnt get much coverage on Headfi, is that because they suck?
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    Reid Heath Acoustics 950i review.

    Glasgow - Scotland , cold, dark and inhospitable. Populated with pasty faced ginger haired men wearing tracksuits, eating battered batter and listening to techno , sung by smurfs *.   Not the backdrop you would expect for a high tech headphone company to reside in. I am a Scotsman (via...
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    canford level limited headphones - help

    I just got a great deal on some new Sony MDR-7506, however they are a custom canford BBC 88dba version. Can anyone tell me how/if the sound will be different to stock ones? Will they be much quieter? Mp3 player ok? Does the limiter degrade the sound (seems a lot of pros use limiters). These...
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    Tested the Audioquest Dragonfly and .....

    Sent it back after the week, this has to be the most hyped DAC in history!   Dont get me wrong i do understand its plus points.......size, sorry plus point.   I think people see SABRE and have a small accident in their kecks, really it is not that great a DAC , nowhere near as good with...
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