It's another year, and here we go again... I'm still trying to find a DAP I can enjoy working with. Year after year, I'm frustrated and disappointed. Hopefully, this is the year! I'm optimistic! I'm being positive! I need your help!! And I sure appreciate it. What I want to achieve is...

Hey everyone,   My gym like most plays LOUD music, and it's music that S..U..C..K..S.     To combat this problem, I've been bringing my beloved Etymotic ER-4 with me, which I guess is the best or one of the best IEMs for sound isolation that you can get.  They work absolutely perfect for...

Hey everyone, got those great sleeper Bluetooth headphones, the mighty Backbeat Pros. Matched them last year against contenders from B&O (H8), AKG, Sony, etc. all 4 - 5 times their price, and the Backbeats blew them all away overall. Had never even heard of them before doing that. Sadly, the...

Hey all, thanks for reading. I'm looking for a quality player to hook to my tube amp & AKG K712. I currently have an iBasso DX50 and an HTC One M7. After several summers (my time off) of serious research, effort and endless experimentation, I've been unable to find any way of easily getting...

Hi and thanks! I've gone out of my mind on this one.     Bottom line, I'm desperately hoping someone can help me step-by-step to learn a system by which I can easily and systematically add/edit Playlists to my DX50.  I am also (very!) open to recommendations of another (better, easier) source...

Hi all, just short and sweet:   The prices have finally fallen enough to squeeze a used T1 into my budget, if I go on a strict Ramen diet for a month.  Well worth it! ;)     Problem is that I have no idea what the amp requirements are for these bad boys.  I have a Glow Audio Amp One tube amp...

Hi everyone,    I'm a fan of the difficult-to-drive AKG line, currently running a K712 which I love.  The amp I'm using for those cans specifically, the Glow Audio Amp One, is terrific.  So is a portable BSG I had Sanjay make for me specifically for that pair of headphones.  But what I'd love...

Hi, thanks for your help.   I'm trying to use my HTC One M7 as a player, to send to my DX50 and then to my amp.  I have an OTG cable, but it's not seeming to work.     1.  DX50 has the latest firmware as of today, and is set to DAC Mode (Windows)   2.  OTG is connected to the HTC, and then...

Hi everyone and thank you.   I have an iBasso DX50 that I've been trying to use for months believe it or not, with no luck.  Just one problem after another after another.  I'm sad, and ready to give up, but it sounds good (when it works which is rarely) and I don't know what else to use, so...

Hey everyone, I've been knocking my head against a wall for months on this, so any help would be sorely appreciated.   I've got a great amp and headphones.  (Glow Amp One, AKG K712).  I currently use an old iPod Nano 4G with a Fiio Line Out cable as my source, but it needs an upgrade.  When...

Hi all, thanks for your recommendations.   I have an HTC One, which allows a digital-out signal through it's USB charging port, using a "USB On-the-Go" cable.  Yes, we all know that.  :D  Anyway, I intend to run it into a decent but affordable DAC that will accept a USB input from my phone...

Hey all,   I'm looking for a Bluetooth, Active Noise Cancelling, Around-the-Ear (not "on" ear) headphones.    Nothing out of the ordinary here:  I just want to be able to connect to my computer and/or Android phone, walk around the house, mainly, and not hear my neighbors through our paper...

Hey everyone,   I don't know if this has already been posted, but Lauren Dragen over at The Wirecutter did the dirty work for us to find the cheapest good quality in-ear headphone.   She considered 150 different models of in-ear headphones and earbuds, testing 40 of the best, and then...

Hey all,   I'm thrilled to announce a totally new redesign of my all-time favorite headphone amp, the Glow Audio Amp One!   I still haven't had the pleasure of directly comparing it to a Woo Audio WA-6, but unless that were to radically change things, this is my absolute reigning champion...

Hey all, hate to retread an exhaustively yakked about topic, but I'm looking for an affordable (key word!) tube amp for my AKG K702.  The problem, as we all know but so few of us really understand (including me!) is the amp in question having enough current to run these sticky cans!  If that...

Hey all, finally got my friend to agree to upgrade from a pair of Dixie cups tied with a string to a real set of headphones, so I picked out a set of Beyerdynamic DT880 / 600 Ohm for him.  I told him how much he was gonna like 'em, and he will, but when I asked what amp he was planning to plug...

    Good evening everyone. This is my review of the M-Stage Headphone Amplifier.    The review is being conducted in conjuction with Charles, my trained Space Monkey from the Planet Zazvor, using a fully burned-in AKG K702 and an iPod Nano with a Fiio L3 LOD (line out dongle). The...

  Hi all,   After just having them recabled by Etymotic, in which they installed an entirely new cable setup (black and braided, unlike the original one), somehow the L headphone's braided wire has become loose at the mid-joint, where both R and L connect and then turn into a single...

Hi all,   After many headphone tests over the past two years, as most of you know I settled on the K702.  It's the best of all worlds for me, seeing as I don't have the cash for a T1 which I think would be the next (final?) step up in Headphone Gloryland.   Anyway, the best amp I've...

Amazon/HeadRoom now list AKG K701 headphones for $349.  I just bought a pair a few months ago, (and then sold them for a DT880), for $239?   Anyone?

  Hey everybody,   I have a BSG amp, (CMoy designed by Sanjay), that was originally designed for the Beyerdynamic DT880 600-ohm version, according to my buddy I bought it from (fellow Head-Fier). Funny enough, I didn't like it with my Beyers, but it's awesome with my ER-4S.  They seem made...

  Hi all,   I have a small solid-state BSG CMOY amp, which was originally designed for a pair of Beyerdynamic DT880 / 600-ohm headphones.  I want to know if they will sound good with a pair of Audio Technica AD900 cans, and, how I can tell for future headphone / amp purchases.  As in, how...

  Hey all, I just got a new Beyerdynamic DT-880, the 600-ohm version, and I'm having a slight hum on my Glow Audio Amp One tube amp.  The hum is small, but noticeable, and stays the same no matter the volume of the Glow.  I figured the Beyers would be perfect, as the Glow is made for...

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  (Just a quickie posting on my impressions after a month of usage).       I am so wildly impressed with the awesome - no, stunning - results I've had using BSG's cMOY amp with my Etymotic ER-4S (the ER-4P with the attached "S" resistance cable).   I absolutely could not - could...