I was just thinking, given the 1099K hassle and paypal feel, has anyone signed a buyer and seller contract agreement similar to buying cars, for expensive audio equipment? Is that legally enforceable? Seems like if there is a easy Docusign template Head-fi provides that will be a good idea.

I was just thinking, there are $30 10+ driver Chifi IEMs yet their materials together doesn't produce great sound, the missing link is probably tunning? Then what exactly makes tunning difficult, is it about empirical knowledge and know-how or some hard-core science, physical and math modeling...

The last few years my experience has been mostly around TOTL over ear like LCD4, Empyrean, Utopia etc, and before that I had a period of IEM fan boyism with Shure E5C, UE triple fi, Westone ES3 custom etc but those are probably 10 years ago. Fast forward 10 year, and now with the new...

I was sitting and listening on a 17lb PS audio dac amp with very short custom headphone cable connected to HD800s, I got lost in the music and stood up too quickly and to my surprise, not only the 1/4 is super tight and is still attached to the headphone jack but my upward motion lifted the...

In a weird way, COVID is giving me new perspective on hobby budgeting. From last week's turmoil, does it change anyone's perspective on buying and selling hifi gears?

Used to own a W60 and it's super comfortable and sometimes I will listen at low volume and just fall asleep. What would be a TOTL with the same ergonomic but meaningful sound improvement?

Noted above, well, obviously the Beyer T1 debuted at $1000, now new one's MSRP is at $700, used at $400. HD6XX now is at $195 new, 650 is $350, used to be $500+. LCDX 5 years ago was $1700, LCDX creator edition now is $1100. So in a way, more expensive headphone is getting cheaper, and my guess...

I want to start a thread dedicated to TOTL disappointments. A lot of us live in remote areas where before we spend $3k on a new toy the only way is to read as much as possible from fellow headfier . Most of reviews tend to really focus on the positives and I wish people will also talk about...

Hey guys, I know there is another thread already on voting, but Nytimes just published a tool here where you can drag so that you can hear both: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/16/upshot/audio-clip-yanny-laurel-debate.html For me, I can start to hear both only all the way to the...

Do you hold any crypto/bitcoin? Lost so much value recently and when I converted that to audio gears my wallet is bleeding..

Update: Pictures from meetup I think this is a pretty lonely hobby offline and I wonder if there is anyone around the area to exchange listening experiences and try out more headphones. Update March 2nd: I'm counting 10 people in the thread already. Here is a link to the meetup...

Sorry for asking such as basic question.

* I'm looking for an A/B switch box to help with my testing and I wonder if anyone knows a god passive A/B headphone out switch box? Out of all the hype, I ordered MOJO on amazon and finally arrived today, and I blocked a whole night try to make a conclusive test on MOJO's SQ against MacBook...

I have a somewhat dumb question - do headphones measure the same at different air density and therefore different altitude? If yes, would that make enough difference for human to tell the difference? Here is a related question ...

I currently own both LCDx and LCD3f, and today I accidentally covered part of grill (not exactly cover, but put my hand close to the grill in the air) and got pretty amusing result. The soundstage collapsed a bit, but the resulting sound is more airy and more refined. Edit: upon further...

Please delete thread, I found my answer in https://www.head-fi.org/threads/new-audeze-lcd3.575751/page-764

- Please allow spelling and grammar errors due to English as 2nd language - I think there is a need in the community to discuss a few very intriguing phenomenons that just started to arise in HIFI in the last 10 years or so (HD800 is almost 10 years old now, can you believe it !?) A little...

I have a friend who's a sketch artist and we talked about headphones for hours today. I mentioned that there are a few hundred headphone models and probably less than a hundred important headphones which all have some unique natures with some of them having special abilities. Then we start...

I have been using my little dot mark 3 for a while and until recently I found that there is some channel imbalance issue. Upon careful investigation with tubes and jumpers I couldn't figure out anything. Then I eventually realize that I forgot to put the 220 to 110v voltage converter for the amp...

One thing that continuously frustrates me is the version/batching theories of headphone production lines.   Two HD800s or T1s may sound different out of box [1] , or maybe they sound similar initially but different after some time of use[2].   From my own experience, the new HD800 I got...

Anyone noticed this? I was astonished by the thread here :  http://www.ourdev.cn/bbs/bbs_content_all.jsp?bbs_sn=4306821 (this page might take up tp 30 seconds to load since their forum put all replies in a single page)   There are already about 500 replies there. According to the post...