For me it's the HD595. Very warm, smooth, relaxing, and musical. I can listen to these all day, and I often have the "just-one-more-song-even-though-it's-2AM" feeling.

I didn't have a good transducer for my substantial CD collection until I saw a HD595 on eBay for really cheap and won the bid. Then, I thought it sounds much nicer than many in-ears that I had and the usual fashion headphones that my friends own, but it sounded thin somehow. So I went on the...

I'm enjoying these right now: GJ-bu Mushishi Mawaru Penguin Drum Tamago Market   I recommend you guys to listen to the Mushishi OST, it's stunning and also well recorded.

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I am trying to get the LCD-2, however, she couldn't stand the fact that a pair of headphones costs a thousand bucks. How do I convince her? 

I use XLD on my mac to convert between lossless formats. It's pretty powerful.

Last time on the Taiwan High Speed Rail I saw a girl listening to HD595 with the 10ft cable on her lap wrapped around by a twist tie...

Quote: The sound coming from your computer headphone jack is converted to analog and amplified. Thus, there's a DAC and an AMP in your computer. But rarely are they better than any external DACs and AMPs.   I did not listen to the HD439, so take my words lightly here. HD439 is...

I agree with HeatFan. Source material is very important as its quality depends on many other factors as well. For example, the quality of the microphone, room acoustics in the recording room, and digital encoder (ADC) used by the production people, etc.. Therefore, not all flac files sound good...

I've tried to convert some Beats users with my system, but apparently, they were all deeply convinced that Beats are the best headphones in the market...

Quote: It makes sense to have just a single chasis for small gain amplifications. Interference may be lesser than speaker systems, too.   For your upgrade, IMO, tube amps are much more fun to live with than SS. First, tube rolling is just so much fun... I didn't believe in the vast...

From what I know, in speaker systems the separation between the power amp and the pre-amp is strongly advocated, as it further separates the initial signal and the final amplification, forming a cascade of amplification, giving a cleaner sound signal with lower noise and interference and...

I usually would incline to a warm and lush tone without losing balance when listening to most music. I find a slightly colored sound is more enjoyable. For different genres, one would expect different things. I like wide soundstage and a high dynamic range listening to Classical; in contrast, I...

HD595 for Indie Rock

  This picture crossed my seasonal favorite(Chuu-2) to my all-time-least-favorite(GC)...

I have a separate amp, and I was using a 3.5mm jack to RCA cable for the last two weeks. I am able to get the two DACs for the same price, and I am having a hard time deciding.   First, is there a difference in sound quality? Since they have the same DAC section...There have been little...