Never tried it, but that should be pretty doable with a cheap little cable ripper without building anything fancy. Probably too large to do the job as is on most cabling, but all the tweaking you'd need to do to make it suitable for smaller wire is to shrink the little point down to suit...

Well, I pulled the trigger on the T-X0, but given the estimated ship date... I'm probably going to get tired of waiting and snag something else as well. Maybe I'll just start trying out amps instead!

Most cables are either too long or silly short. That part doesn't surprise me one bit. I'll have to look into the K7XX again. Not sure it's what I'm after, but it was always interesting enough before that I'm curious if it's actually what I'm after.

I was interested in the Q701 back before I left. Is the stock cable really bad enough to need a new one? I know the K701 saw a ton of recables, but so did everything near that price range back then. I saw that. 1900 of them for like 5000 people last I saw it didn't seem to be good odds of...

Sounds about right up top then. Relaxed, yet engaging enough not to bore is about exactly where I'm hoping to be. I don't know that I want to jump on a mod as my next option though. Given that you can take a T50RP and make it a $300 or $1200 can, both at price points people find fair, I can't...

I've been listening to everything though my speaker setup. Headphones took a backseat. And as a result, I have no idea what my options are these days. My V6 and my HD25 are both good at what I use them for, but that is not any kind of serious listening. They're more portable, or casual...

What a great way to address aesthetics! Some people don't want to have a K1000 (or whatever you consider strange/ugly/etc) hanging off their head, no matter the performance given the cost of those higher end items, and the same can be said about that Bugatti. I'd easily trade a single ugly...

A lot of banana plugs and spades and whatnot will accept cable all the way up to something like 4awg already, so no real need to concern yourself with a crimp fitting unless 4 is somehow still too small for you. I know the ones I have said they'd accept up to 5mm wire which is just under 4awg...

Out of curiosity, does anyone make a 1/4" TRS plug that's essentially the same as the 3.5mm 35HDBAU from Switchcraft? The closest thing I could find was the Rean, and those always felt really cheap to me compared to Switchcraft or actual Neutrik stuff.

If you have music recorded in stereo (2.0) reproducing it with surround (5.1) is either combining the two for center, and doubling it in the rear with all lows passed to the subwoofer, or it's not actually using them all. Regardless, you're altering the input quite a bit from the original 2...

A pair of Indignias or Overnight Sensations (both DIY builds, but I believe PE may have both available as kits or possibly even pre-fabs) and a good chipamp (DIY, Topping, good Dayton boxes, some like Tripath) will blow that away on the music end of things. Unless of course you are using these...

I never liked the original one. I thought the color was really ugly, but the phones were pretty nice looking. The new natural wood color looks much better, but everything I've heard about the sound, combined with the styling of it, says it should be a much darker color to me. And yet another...

The yoke ruined it for me. Hate what it did to the look. And as for wooden cups, I believe you forgot Audio Technica. The majority of ATs cups look nicer than Denon's (stock wooden Denon cups) if you ask me.

HD700, HD800, GS1000, PS1000, and MDR-Z1000 all come to mind as ugly ones.

I can honestly say that larger screens are not appealing to me. Apple has been playing it smart in keeping a phone that feels like a phone and not some damn dwarf tablet if you ask me. The RAM, the CPU, the battery. Those are things that, if you look back not too long ago, Apple was doing...

There was a connection? I thought Silent was just referencing the plans for My Little March that were mentioned awhile ago.

I could make a DAC based on the TOTL Wolfson... doesn't mean it would sound close to even middle of the line Cirrus Logic when designed properly.

The Cowons are better in some areas and worse in others. Really, it's just whatever looks best at the time of buying it for me. Each of these companies releases something good and something bad through their releases, so whatever is good when I need something is what I'll go after. Just using...

Everything supports WAV :p Cowon brags about their EQ too much. If it sounds good flat, I could care less how it sounds EQ'd, and quite a few iPods have pulled that off for me.

Compulsion to post a random number! 42! If you have the money, the space, and the desire, get as many as you want. Who's going to judge...actually, who cares if they do? Currently, due to lack of space and funding, I have 2: my MDR-V6 and my HAFX-35. I have no intention of setting a cap. If...

Best cosmetically, best looking, best measuring, best sounding, best at their price point, etc? Best is very vague. I could go ahead and wrap those iBuds back in their plastic wrap, ship them to you, and say they were my "best for giving away" headphones and have done exactly what you asked. I...

If Sony was nicer, I'd still have linux on my PS3 and I could rip things there. I never got it figured out enough over the short time I had linux on there to rip them.

Already had MGS4... no blu ray drive to even attempt this rip though. Way to go Sony, make magic and leave me stuck trying to find where in that massive game that track plays just to hear it!

Here you go: http://www.head-fi.org/a/diy-lod-full-step-by-step-do-it-yourself-guide-with-pictures

Small square in big circle... it works. Childhood lessons about triangles not fitting in circles and circles not fitting squares is nonsense... if it won't fit, we'll make it! That's what DIY is all about :D I'm talking individual 20-24AWG wires here, not a full sized quad tube in a new shape...