I want to get the Sennheiser HD 555 headphones but I'm worried about sound leak.   Most of my listening will be in my dorm room, where my room-mate will be working about 2.5 metres away from me. How much sound would carry across to him, if I mostly listen at pretty moderate levels.   If...

How's this speaker? I can't find much on it... Will it go well with a Denon PMA 525R 50W amp? Thanks.

I bought 'new' Sennheiser IE7s from the Amazon.co.uk marketplace and it arrived in proper Sennheiser packaging. However, the cleaning tool, case and foam tips were missing and there was clear evidence of its having been opened before. Also, the piece of clear plastic that you have to cut to get...

Please have a look at these Amazon listings: link The regular price is £130 but they have listings there for less than half of that. The cheapest one doesn't have any ratings or anything but I don't know whether I should be worried - does Amazon have any sort of quality check with their...

During quiet/silent parts of songs, there is always noise that becomes noticeable especially at louder volumes. Here's my chain of equipment: iPod 120GB -> Apple Universal dock (which unfortunately has an amp) -> nice 1m cable -> Pioneer A-109 40W stereo integrated amp -> nice 2m speaker...

I find my Sennheiser CX300 earphones quite lacking after listening to my B&W 602.5 speakers, so I want to find better earphones (or headphones) that won't disappoint me every time I switch from the loudspeakers... I live in South Africa so it's not easy to get hold of that large a selection...

Has anyone used a microphone before to test whether different cables etc make a difference to the sound produced in a music system? You could have a specibly set up room with a microphone in a set position and then play some sound, perhaps a single frequency at a time for simplicity and then...

Is there any difference in the way the signals from different amp inputs are treated? Or are the names just that? What is phono used for? Because I plugged my iPod into there and it sounded completely different - completely distorted with seriously booming bass...

I just bought the iPod Universal Dock and I'm sad to see that the volume controls on the iPod still work. I thought the amp stage would be cut out?

Playing music from my iPod Classic, through my Pioneer A-109 to my B&W speakers. If the iPod is paused and I max the volume on the amp there is a tiny bit of noise but I'm sure that's normal. When playing a song at high volume, there seems to be a lot of noise coming out of the tweeter...

I just bought a pair of the standard Neutrik RCA connectors with the red/white strips. Can someone please explain how they work? There's obviously the gold part that is the plug, but it doesn't seem to have any clamp type thing on it for retention. Then there's a little three pronged plastic...

I just bought a Pioneer A-109 amp second hand. Is the headphone jack supposed to accommodate a normal 3.5mm jack? It seems much to big for my little 3.5mm jack to fit in so I'm thinking that it must be broken? Unless I'm being stupid and it's designed for a bigger jack... Any help? Thanks.

I'm trying to turn my iPod's standard USB cable into an audio one. One small problem: I can't get the little dock connector thing open... It's the standard Apple connector, not the one of the new little ones, the old bigger one with the release system thing. Anyone else done this? I've tried...

I imagine there have been similar threads to this before, but I'm on my phone and can't really search. I've just got proper speakers for the first time (B&W DM602.5) and in lieue of that I've decided to dabble in some different areas of music, namely jazz and classical. I'm sorted on the...

I'm getting a pair of B&W DM602.5 S3 speakers with a Pioneer A109 integrated amp. The speakers are 850mm tall, which might be just to short if I'm sitting at my desk - i.e. the tweeter will be visible but the midrange drives will be out of sight. I can't imagine it will sound particularly...

I want to make my own Mini-RCA cable and I've seen the tutorial. My problem is my iPod's cover -only a very narrow jack (~9mm) will fit through it into the iPod's earphone-out port. Could someone please provide a link to find such a jack. Nothing over the top - just something that will fit.

I currently have Logitech Z-2300 2.1 speakers that I connect to my PC/iPod via a standard 3.5mm jack. I'm using standard onboard sound. All of my music is MP3 encoded - probably about 50% 128kbps and the rest 192 - 320kbps. I play it with iTunes on my computer. I'm very happy with the...