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    Headstage Arrow Battery Problems?

    I've had the Arrow for quite a few months now and love the amp, fantastic sound quality and stellar battery life.. till now. Now it seems to die out after five hours of playback at max, whereas it used to last me for weeks or even months on end per charge. Anyone else experiencing similar problems?
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    Your goal: Do you have one, and have you reached it?

    The good thing about the headphone hobby is that technology doesn't quite render past headphones obsolete, the Grado being a good example. Perhaps 10 or 20 years into the future our headphones will still perform as well as they do now, given proper care, and we may still be satisfied with the...
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    Someone help me identify a music track?

    Someone please help me identify this track? Even if you don't think you can identify it, it's worth a listen, anyway. First up, it's in chinese. It's a jazz-ish duet between a bassist and a solo voice. A friend sent it to me originally titled Happy or Not and attributed to an artist called Amy...
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    DAC & Amp for non-portable use, newbie requesting for help/advice*

    I wasn't too sure if this should go in the DIY section or the non-portable source/amp section, but considering I am asking about all three I figured the DIY would be the best place to put up this thread since the other two have specific sub-forums for each component.   AFAIK the DIY section...
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    Headstage Arrow 3G Configurations? Advice needed.

    I've had the headstage Arrow 3G for quite a while now, and it amps my 1964-Ts and Grados perfectly well. The only problem I have with it is that I don't see myself making full use of the settings at all, with a (seemingly default) setting of 0 Bass, 0 Crossfeed, I gain and 0 Impedance. I have...
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    DBT: Why the stigma?

    Yes I understand wikipedia is notoriously unreliable, but for the sake of convenience, bear with me. Placebo: (/pləˈsiboʊ/; Latin: I shall please) is a sham or simulated medical intervention. Sometimes patients given a placebo treatment will have a perceived or actual improvement in a medical...
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    What do portable headphone amps do?

    Out of my iPod into my 1964-Ts, the only overt benefit I can see of using a headphone amp would be the ability to utilize the LOD. What exactly does the amp circuit do besides the adding of more AC power for driving headphones? To myself the gain is redundant as customs are easily driven and too...
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    DIY Custom Earphone cable?

    Considering most custom earphones utilize the standard westone jack, I was wondering if it was possible to DIY a pair of cables for these. Commercially available aftermarket silver cables seem pretty expensive. Does anyone know where the connectors where the cables attach to the earphone sockets...
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    Suggestions on my first (and hopefully last) set of customs?

    We all know the deal; buy an earphone, get fascinated with it, think "oh my gosh this is the best thing i've ever heard" and vow not to buy another earphone ever again. That was me with the DBA-02 about 7 or 8 months back. Fastforward to now and you clearly see my vow just got broken. Truth be...
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    DIY iPod LOD: Questions pertaining to stress relief and others.

    I have been making quite a few DIYLODs, which started off looking extremely crude but slowly got better as I got more experienced with the soldering iron. I have encountered tons of problems along the way, some of which I have fixed and some which I have yet to, which I will be asking about...
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    Help with loss of one channel in a TRS 3.5mm-3.5mm

    In all my experience of cable making, I've never come across something like this before. I have made a 3.5mm-3.5mm cable using 20AWG SPC and Neutrik plugs (though the only shop I have access to that sells things like these only sells the China-made 'Neutriks') However, when I plug in the...
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    Driving headphones out of a portable DAP VS Amping.

    I've always read in almost every forum dealing with full-sized  headphones that amps are neccessary to "drive" a headphone, but up till this point I haven't exactly found the reason why this is so. Is it to do with volume (etc. on high impedance headphones) or other factors which I may not be...
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    Looking for parts (online)

    I'm living in Singapore, and the last time I tried to make an LOD I had to buy parts from friends (and scrounge them up from an electrical engineer friend I happened to have), and my first LOD's parts cost me roughly 10US, not counting the SPC wire and without heatshrink. Anyone knows of a...
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    DIY iPod LOD (or is it the amp?) questions

    I just DIYed an iPod LOD from instructions here (http://www.sgheadphones.net/index.php?showtopic=9246) and I've got a few questions to ask. Firstly, when I first plugged the LOD in, the right signal was intermittent, and only when I adjusted the position of my iPod did the sound right itself...
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    Safe listening volumes?

    Well I didn't really know which thread this should go in but anyway I figured this would be it, since it concerns IEM usage. (Though apparently there's been a study done that says that there's really not that much of a difference between supra-aural phones and IEMs in terms of ear-damage) Have...
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    DIY Custom Eartips

    I recently purchased a pair of Westone UM1s after I lost my Crossroads Quattros, took rather long to get used to the rather bass-deficient sound but I was quite happy with the overall sound signature. Switched from the comply tips to the Shure Olives, and found that that helped a bit. Then I was...
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