I've had my Shure E5's since.. march 2004 or so & they've been with me in all kinds of environments around the world in my travels in the military... from Dubai to China and everywhere in between. They are defiantly worn out now, the cables at the buds themselves are starting to fray out, wire...

Would a cable this length plus low build quality make a an amplifier sound like crap? I bought it because I couldnt wait to get cables made and I wanted to hear it, but it sounds awful. Now before I go investing $100+ in cables, was it the radio shack cable making the amp sound like crap? Or the...

After like 4 months of constant use my HD5 died. Wont turn on. Tried removing battery, AC adapter, etc... wont even get power. And the buttons were finally starting to crack like all the others. So like a good headfi'er I couldnt live one day without music so I bought something new.... Sony...

I'm in the mood for my first open headphone and could use some help. Some background first on what I listen to.. linkin park, system of a down, NIN, staind, godsmack, evanescence, blindspott (nz rock band), occasionally poking my head in teenie-bopper stuff ( ) such as avril lavigne, eminem...

With the Hornet coming out, at an intro price of $295 (for the first 100, which seem to have been claimed already in the Mall-fi forum) & regular price of $350 it obviously undercuts the SR71. People who have heard it say they cant distinguish the Hornet from Rays other high-end amps which would...

Currently my only set of fullsize cans are A900s, which I love. They are quite large though, and I'm looking for something a bit smaller when I'm either not in the mood to use my E5s, or I'm on like a flight or something. Obviously there are the HD-25s, seem to be the most popular "portable"...

Just a curious question since this is primarly the only headphone I am pursuing atm. Obviously it is well known that the A900 doesn't need an amp to shine, and sounds pretty good "out of the box", although an amp helps boost it even more. Is the W1000 similar? Or is it more like other high-end...

Going upto the Yokuska/Tokyo area for a couple of weeks, wondering if any of you from Japan/visited Japan know where I can pick a pair up for a decent price. Priced them at "Best Electronics" here in Sasebo, and they wanted 55,000yen for a brand new pair, little extreme imo. If I cant find a...

Picked one of these up last weekend & figure I'd share some of my opinions & information about the player since I havn't seen very many posts about hands on here. Forwarning now, no pictures, atm at least, camera isn't available. Colors available were obviously black, red, & silver. I picked...

What mp3 player has the most size & offers a lossless codec? Only one that comes to my mind is the iPod 60gb photo with apple lossless. Only other lossless player I know of is the karma with 20gb so definatly not enough. I could get a 60gb photo off the apple site for ~$380, so figuring in price...

Have had all kinds of mp3 players over the past year, from h120, 2 ipods, an ipod mini, zen micro, & a few others. Looking into lossless codecs & cds. Took a look at the Sony D-NE20, and it's a nice player, but would still like to have something in my pocket. Hi-MD, even MD in general.... I...

Looking for a pair of cans, sub-$500, to use with a maxed out PPA. Not sure if it will have diamond buffers, can't find out for another 2 days, not even sure if that will effect the list of probable cans. Full-size cans, I have shure e5s already for canalphones. Like the sound of my A900s, just...

Repost of my sharkyforums post, figured some of you might like a read & visual pleasure. Fair warning, I'm not a true audiophile, I have no clue about the meaning of the different hz and khz that people put in their reviews, so this is a plain language impression Have had my E5s for over a...

For techno/trance, and some hip-hop, which would be an overall better choice? I know one is a full size can and the other is buds, but portability aside which would sound better?

What would be the best closed headphone to pair with a Supermono for say, under $250? Requirements are as follows: * Comfortable * Good build quality * Music pref: Trance/Techno, Hip-Hop, Rock, etc (avril lavigne, linkin park, tool, blink 182, etc) * Must have good sound clairty, would...

Anyone have this combo? SR71 + Ety ER4P/S? If so does the bass increase enough to justify the purchase... or would something like a supermono with the bass boost switch be better?

For some odd reason I just hate dealing with amps, I thought it was the size of my zmoy (in an extruded hammond case), so I bought a Xin supermini, but it just is a pain to me as well... so I'm looking to go unamped. I love the sound of my new etys, unfortuantly they lack on the "amount" of...

For those that have used it... when your ordering your song and are at like the confirmation screens, it says source "standart", does that mean they are just encoding from an -alt preset standard mp3? So.... picking anything else other than standard is a waste of $$ since your just making the...

Read headfi a lot but just got around to making an account Looking towards a new pair of higher-end headphones, have had Sennheiser HD212 for gaming for quite awhile, and own a pair of Shure E2s, but have never really owned a nice pair of cans (i enjoy the sound of my shures btw if that helps...