Hey guys, I am looking for recommendations for a higher imedance open over ear hp primarily for listening to heavy metal. I will also be using these for a bit of folk/acoustic type music. I have an LCD-2 which i love, but i want to try some other stuff to see if i can find a reason to upgrade...

Hey guys,   Looking for a CIEM uner 500$. my current rig is as follows: Hifiman he4 < Burson Audio HA-160 < Schiit Bifrost. I love this sound, but find that i dont get to do as much listening with my main rig as id like. I'd like to find a fun sounding CIEM that has some similar traits to the...

hey guys.    school work has been real heavy lately, and i havent been able to spend much time with my he-4's. not a big fan of long nights in the lab without the hifimans. is there a closed can in a similar price/quality range with a slight v curve? i prefer over ear, and amping isnt an...

hey guys, so i recently picked up a pair of used westone 2's. ive read they sound good without an amp, which i agree with. i chose to hold off on trying them with an amp until i was somewhat used to the sound signature. after a few days of listening, i plugged them into my starving student. now...

i finished building a grubdac kit yesterday. plugged it in to my desktop, windows recognized it and installed drivers. foobar also recognized it. plugged it into my starving student, and i just get heavy distortion/static when nothing is playing. when a song is playing it sounds really...

a while back i built a starving student for my hd555's. not because they needed the extra power, but because i thought the project would be fun, and when i decided to upgrade, i would have a decent amp already. i am considering buying a set of hifiman he-300's, or if my budget allows, he-4's...

im starting to collect some 12au7 tubes for the soha II and CTH amps im working on, and ive been kind of skeptical about buying tubes from ebay. so i thought it might be helpful to have a tube tester. i want it to be able to match tubes, and ive read that in order to do this, the tester must be...

hey guys   so i was going to build a soha II, but ive decided to go with a CTH rev A instead ( i have to buy books for classes).   im under the impression that there are no more pcb's available, so im thinking im going to just use a radioshack style protoboard like i did with my starving...

keep in mind that im still a little new to diy audio.   im working on picking out parts for a soha II build using cavalli audio's bill of materials. i got the impression that the capacitors listed in the bom arent the best quality that i could get while not going over my budget, which is...

so ive done lots of searching and all ive found are lots of dead links. im looking for info on a tube dac with usb input so i can connect it to my computer and rca outputs (no coax/spdif necessary). does anyone know of a good design thats not too expensive?

hey guys   just finished my starving student, and i thought it would be cool to wire up an led to let me know when the tubes are conducting.    my first thought was to just use a microcontroller to turn the led on after 30 seconds, but i was wondering if there was a way to use one of the...

i was hoping to go to a meet eventually, but i couldnt find anything about a meet in the new york area. will there ever be one?

does anyone know if this will work for a LOD? i dont want to tear apart my ipod cable but i wanted to make a nice LOD. it looks like it should fit..plus its gold plated    http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/JAE-Electronics/DD1B030VA1/?qs=sGAEpiMZZMsyU%2fnwJUBByrVYohXeCdtN

i decided to try to build the basic meier crossfeed, but it isnt working right. it sounds really quiet and my music lost most of its tone so i assume i built it wrong. this is the article i found it in   http://gilmore2.chem.northwestern.edu/projects/showfile.php?file=meier2_prj.htm   my...

id very much like to build one, ive heard there fantastic and seem like just what i need. but i cant find any info on them! ive been on meiers site but cant find a schematic or a bill of materials. i think there might be a dead link also. does anyone have the schematic and bom? or the manual...

ive been looking and i know they dont sell the kits anymore. and if its not possible to buy the boards anymore does anyone have a file i could print that has the traces all laid out correctly??

sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this im new to the forum.   i want to start building the starving student but theres a few different materials lists and im not sure which one to use. as far as i can tell the kit isnt available so i wont be using the production board. what do you guys...