I'm selling a self-built Bottlehead Crack with stock tubes in Hyderabad as I going to be moving to the US next month and am unable to take this with me. Please PM me if interested. I will not ship this anywhere considering there are tubes involved and I don't want the hassle. Thanks!

Good luck with the HD650s. They are beautiful.    I broke down and ordered a Bottlehead Crack kit yesterday. Let's see what better amplification brings to the table. 

For what it's worth, I have been using the HD650 with an Fiio E10 DAC/AMP worth <100$ for the past year and it works pretty well. Maybe not as good as the big amps (I don't have a reference), but the Fiio drives it pretty decently, I generally listen at vol 4~5 and going all the way up is...

Wow this thread came back from the dead. 4 years..!   I listen to some of Dream Theater's music on a regular basis.. Octavarium and "A Change of Seasons" are favorites of mine.    I'll give your other recommendations a try. Thanks.

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Quote: I will check it out, Thanks!   Quote: I am procuring this right now - have heard a lot about King Crimson!   Quote:   Hmm lots of suggestions there :) I was looking into Cowboy Junkies and it sounds good.   What would you suggest for Dvorak and Tchaikovsky...

Okay I will check it out.. My music tastes are very crazy for my place - most of my friends listen to the latest hiphop and trance and I just hate it ;)

I listened to some it on youtube and liked it..!

Quote: I have electric tears and like to an extent. What should I branch out to?

Thanks for the suggestions, your suggestions I see in 2 categories mostly, half I already have and enjoy (not top of the list though) and the rest I've tried to get into but find way too HEAVY.. I don't know why, but I cannot tolerate the heavy metal stuff at all, it gives me a headache :(...

I am at a phase in which my musical tastes are changing rapidly... I am listening mostly to stuff which I completely ignored earlier...   I'm currently enjoying-   Meddle - Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds - Pink Floyd Zabriskie Point - Pink Floyd Brandenburg Concertos - Bach The...

I'd think the lower line is y=x^2 and the upper boundary line is y=x^(1/2) Thus we could think of the box as a 1by1 box, integrate the difference of the functions from 0 to 1 and get the area of the black portion. 1-area would be area of white portion. ! (I think, im not very good at...

Oh and I would heartily suggest the whole Call Of Duty series, also Company Of Heroes I found to be really good.. Some Unreal Tournament too. Diablo 2 is a must (horrible graphics though)

Assassin's Creed Grid Dragon Age : Origins DirT 2 Left 4 Dead 2 Red Faction: Guerrilla Street Fighter IV Batman: Arkham Asylum Dead Space Galactic Civ II Warhammer 40000 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas Neverwinter Nights 2 Prototype BIA S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl...

I'm from Kolkata myself, studying in NIT Calicut, Kerala atm though I've got Phonak PFE's and that's about it on the higher end side (iv listened to bose, i remember the days that was "omg bose awesome sound".. now its like I make people listen to the PFEs are they are like WOW..)

I think you should upgrade your headphones before your amp. It should give a bigger difference AFAIK.

The update sure sounds good, a less crack-prone casing and better wires would be good news indeed. I have a small crack and my wires are hardening like crazy already -_-

Muse.. following 1984 story. holy crap.

It is my experience that the PFEs improve amazingly when upgrading your source. Here are what I tried and how I perceived them - iPod Touch 1g -> PFE (hp out) : sounds good, a bit thin and bass lacking iPod Touch 1g -> E5 -> PFE (mini to mini cable to e5) : sounds slightly better, a bit...

As I said earlier, I have an ipod touch 1g, I got the E5 and a LOD. So, to begin with I used PFEs direct with touch. lets say there was a good sound. Then I used the touch->e5->pfe using a 3.5-3.5 IC between the touch and pfe. there was a very slight change in sound. I can't call it an...

Quote: Originally Posted by petrina_678 i have another question , why hasnt anyone suggested any shure IEM? Are they too bassy or warm? I would think that the lower end shure offerings are infamous for their lack of value for money.

Quote: Originally Posted by ckhirnigs113 This may be great news for me because I can save $200 by selling the UM3X and keeping the PFE! Yeah.. I've heard people say that UM3X destroys PFE unamped but amping the PFEs takes them to the next level. Also, I had read that the HPO...

I got the E5 and a cheap LOD and wow.. the sound of the PFEs has gone way up! The improvement was more by using the LOD than the E5 itself IMO. The sound is now "fuller" and bass is more prominent and "fun". I don't know if its placebo or real, but wow I'm impressed! With the new...

It is supposed to be a fix to the infamous PFE cracking problem.. They are changing the materials. http://www.head-fi.org/forums/5677897-post213.html wbrownie is the phonak rep in head-fi AFAIK. Price changes is not known, but existing PFE owners with cracks are supposed to be able to get...