I third it. I'm listening rn with my T90 headphones, and they're great.

I have the PSB. I find them a bit trebly. I've had some cable issues. For point of reference, I tend to like more bass-heavy headphones (Senn IE8 were some of my favorite portables ever - lost them). *But* I have the Beyer T90 right now for home listening and they're supposed to be notoriously...

I was also very underwhelmed by the HD-650. I had them about 2 or 3 years ago. I was driving them off an Icon-2 DAC/amp. I sold them and went on a bit of a journey through different headphones (Denon, Grado, other Senns). I've finally settled on the Beyer T90 - a very different sounding...

The Wirecutter selected the Kransen Urbanears as a bass-heavy pick in a recent article:   "They feel substantial and built to last. And they’re available in 10 colors. Beauty aside, the bass is very forward, so only bass lovers need apply. Brent liked them, saying that if he were to spend his...

Thanks for resurrecting this thread! I've subsequently moved my A5 into the kitchen, where I know work, and there is no humming. I think it's safe to say that the power lines in my apartment are all sorts of old and messed up - like all of its wiring.   The A5 are truly an amazing product...

Welp, I just did some research and ended up getting the Shure 215LEs on a presidents day sale at earphone connection. Hopefully these work out well, and they're cheap enough to be a backup pair once I have some more cash on hand. Thanks!

The title says it all.    I was out on Saturday night for just a few drinks. Got to the bar and jammed my earphones into my jacket pocket. They either fell out, or the little toddler that was messing around with my gloves and hat also fished my earphones out of my pocket, and now I wish I...

Hey folks - I've been away from Head-Fi for some time. I just logged back on, and I've been using the forum a bunch today and the subtle redesign is awesome. Well, except for one thing. The red flag on the Galleries link is really distracting — really poor design, I think. It would be great to...

Hah, well. I'm one of the people (I think there are a few of us) who thinks the HD650s look good and are pretty durable, and these look like those but with some HD800 DNA. Seems like a pretty great combination to me.

Quote: From what you heard about the album, or of the album? I'm Gay is all right. I actually wrote somethign about it (http://fuse.tv/music/columns/listen-closely/7511-1.html). But the song I linked to is not on that album. Lil B's kind of annoying, and he releases a lot of music that's...

Quote: I actually just basically traded my HD650 for the D2000. I was amping the Senns with a NuForce Icon-2, and I thought that it was fine, no big. Good soundstage, good-sounding. Not a bad headphone, but I sort of suspected I didn't have a good enough amp for them, since they sounded...

It could definitely be an error, because a lot of the seller pricing is just determined algorithmically based on the other seller prices, you know? So if one seller accidentally prices it at $28, the other sellers may have rules in effect to price theirs the same.

Quote:   Awww... (Sorry to be glib.)   Since the very first reply to the OP's question left the topic, I feel like it's OK to stray a bit? Some of the newer stuff that's been exciting is (ignoring the big stuff like The Throne/Drake/Rick Ross) this Oakland group/collective called Main...

You know how every year, millions of kids write freshman papers on Shakespeare or lab reports or take the same calc 1 tests, across the country? Doesn't that seem, not wasteful since education is good, but still, you know, a little wasteful? Because the work's been done a million times? That's...

To be honest, I do think it sounds virtually the same. Perhaps the HDP is better, since people on the forum seem to rave about it. If I had the money to spare, I'd probably go with that Burson amp, which looks nice and is made in Australia if I'm not mistaken.

I did end up buying the NuForce Icon-2. To be honest, I think it's maybe a dud? The sound straight out of my MacBook Air (2010) and MacBook Pro (15" late 2008) and iPhone 4 to Sennheiser HD650 all sound the same. For real. I have very good hearing, and I'm a musician and semi-pro music critic...

This place is like a cult. FWIW, I don't notice much (certainly not "$400's worth") difference between the MacBook Air's jack and using the MBA to USB Icon 2. I must need to spend more money.

Uh, I've gone through two cables over the course of owning them for less than a year. The cable is terrible, and a CS rep said it's a known issue with them; B&W's engineers or whatever have been advised to come up with something better.

Hey, if you could spare a moment, where do you order the Sony hybrids from?

Kanye's MBDTF has more than a few songs that sound terrible, sound-wise. (I happen to think the album is brilliant as an album and have written thousands and thousands of words on it, though.)

Considering they retail for about $350, I highly doubt you can get them for 100 Brazilian real; that's like sixty bucks.

I may be off base here, but I believe the best "rock headphone" is also the best headphone, and at your price, I think it's clearly the Sennheiser HD650. As long as your music is recorded well, they provide a fairly great soundstage, excellent instrument separation, and fill out the low end...

Quote: That's like criticizing a carmaker for having a car that's been keyed on a car lot. It's not the P5's fault; the cord is easily removable, and the earpads are supposed to be held on magnetically.

When I have a pair of IE phones (fake Sennheiser IE 8s, Klipsch S4i, and UE Triple.fi 10s) connected to my NuForce Icon-2, I get this, like, beeping sound. But, you know, it continues in duration. It sounds like a beeping sound that just never ends. I would call it a hum or buzz, but that's not...