Quote:   Help please :)

Is the ODAC's line-out fit for hooking to a receiver?

Semi-necro.   I only own one pair of headphones that my DAC/HPA drives suitably. If I had a pair of hard-to-drive headphones I would try.   But, IIRC, when I looked into what's involved with using a speaker amp on headphones you need to do something about the massive resistance that...

Ha, children. Being an "audiophile" shouldn't mean you're a one-dimensional buyer that will sacrifice anything in the pursuit of subtle differences in sound quality. By that token, you should be ashamed if you own anything other than an O2 head-amp, but some people much prefer bespoke cases and...

Still calling ********/vaporware on these.

This. Design matters. See: Apple products. Beautiful aesthetics make the world more interesting to be a part of, whether it's clothes, cars, furniture, flat-screen tv's, headphones, et al. You shouldn't have to sacrifice looks for function or function for looks with a proper design.

Quote: Beyers. Love the comfort.   If someone can figure out a pad solution to the Q701 I would love it. Really, that's my main issue with the comfort as well. The headband bumps I sliced off immediately, so that's solved.  

/mu/core everywhere.

  I ignore the design completely and just go off the quality of rendering and model. The rendering and model are definitely ****ty-freshmen-design-student quality; no way in hell would a legit company have designers that bad. I could make a better rendering in my sleep.

Quote: Slice off the bumps with a utility knife blade - much better in comfort, worse in resale, lol.

If my Q701's were as comfortable as my Beyers, I'd wear them more.

Holy ****, those actually do exist! Awesome!

A 15kHz sound-wave is still almost a 1" λ.

How many factories have you been inside in China, or is your entire basis of information sensationalist journalism?   I've been in many; not everything made-in-China is from a forced-labor sweatshop.   How about supporting labor and products from your home country where our trade...

If that were true, how would Austrian-sourced be any different?

Why would you be against manufacturing in China?   Buy whichever model is the cheapest on Amazon.

  Pre-move.

Quote: Fair enough - that'll teach me to pass judgement :)   Where is that rack from btw? It looks nice. I'm having a hard time finding anything reasonably priced.  

Quote:   I'm sure this will get me castrated here, but...   Don't have $600 lieing [sic] around, but have a +$4,000 headphone rig...     Anyway, I've been eyeballing those Emotiva mono-blocks + Maggies (MMG's or 1.7's) for awhile; nice choice.

Sara K and Chris Jones [2003]   Javiera Mena - Mena [2010]   Ueh - Ueh [2001]     Matt Elliot - Drinking Songs [2005]    

No, I do not recognize a few of those, lol. The Roots, RATM, and Black Keys picks are what tipped me off :) I didn't mean it negatively. Rock on brotha.

I'm guessing you were born in the 90's with some of those picks...

So what was the consensus on differences between fostex models? If the T20's are the same driver as the T50, shouldn't I start there for modding and save myself money?

What improvements do you find between the D1 HPA and the Burson?

I'm impressed the D1 could drive the HE-500's; how high did you have to go on the VC to listen comfortably?   MalVeauX's reviews nearly have me sold on the HE-500's the same way Project86 sold me on the D1; but, I planned on picking up the ODA (if it isn't vaporware) to power the HE-500's.