Funny thing: When the parcel with my new HD650's arrived, I originally wanted to let them burn in for a couple of hours before trying them out for the first time. But then I thought "what the hell" and decided it'd be more interesting to see my initial reactions, and to hear how they changed...

Ahoy, I have a minimal setup and use an external DAC to listen to music stored on my HD. But lately I've been considering purchasing a standalone CD player, for two reasons. One is the fact that while my Plextor drive (with Plextools) is very, very good at ripping scratched CDs, some...