Help me, I can't stop listening to this album! It's just pure awesomeness. Easily the best album this year. These melodies are from another world. Produced by Steven Wilson (explains a lot). I recommend this wholeheartedly to everyone out there. Listen to it!    My favorite songs from the...

There's this Xilinx chip on ESI Juli@. What does it do? Does it have some effect on jitter or the overall performance of the digital output? I've read some nonspecific comments about the xilinx chip but I still doesn't quite get what it does. Tried Google also. I have ESI Maya44 also and it...

I'm looking for warm sounding interconnects (RCA - RCA) with full bodied sound. They shouldn't sacrifice too much details for the warmth, if you know what I mean. Something pure copper (no silver) preferably. Any recommendations? Price max. is somewhere around $100. Used is ok, actually even...

Hi everybody. I've been quite inactive lately. My headphone rig has seen very little of use after a speaker bug bit me about a year ago. After that I mainly concentrated on building a perfect speaker rig for my use. Well now it's done and I don't feel any need to upgrade any parts on the speaker...

I just have this feeling that this album will be freaking stunning! MySpaceTV Videos: Teaser Trailer Ayreon - 01011001 by Arjen 'Ayreon' Lucassen 01011001 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I felt shivers going down my spine when I watched the teaser...

"DC-1, zero-feedback, zero-oversampling D/A converter" Any experience with this DAC? We just got a dealer for AudioNemesis here in Finland. He's praising the sound of this DAC but I haven't heard it myself. Looks interesting though. http://www.audionemesis.com/dc1.htm

I'm quite happy with my rig at the moment but there are many headphones I'd like to try. So I decided that I could order some headphones to test and compare them with HD650. Who knows, maybe I even find a replacement for my beloved HD650. I just don't know where I should go. At the moment I will...

I'm not sure if this has been posted here already. I couldn't find anything with search. Anyways you must check this out. Very cool. http://david-heron.me.uk/blog/2007/0...al-barbershop/

So how do you like it? I've now listened it through a few times and I love it. At first it didn't sound so great but now when I'm going it through for a third time it's awesome. The first one might be slightly better but Blackfield II is almost there with it. Great stuff...

So I did a short comparison to the stock cable today. Nothing extensive, just a quick 30 min comparison between the stock cable and RAL. Because honestly, ATM I'm not that interested to do these comparisons. I'm VERY pleased with my setup and I try to keep it as it is as long as possible. I was...

So they're finally mine! I was about to order these ~2 months ago but then I decided to go for monitors + downgrade my headphone setup. Well now I'm back in business with DA100 and HP100. I ordered them on friday evening and they arrived today. So hifi500 worked very quickly with them. They...

Looks very interesting. http://www.rudistor.com/nx33.htm

So I got my D02 yesterday after a long wait. I haven't had much time to listen to it yet but so many people are asking me about my impressions of it so here are my very short first impressions. Build quality & look: D02 has a first class build quality. The case is finished with absolute...

Just look at this beauty... http://www.rudistor.com/rp1000.htm EDIT: Oh there was thread considering this already. I didn't find it with search. http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=170488

I'm not sure is this right area for this thread but I think moderators can move it if it's in wrong area. So my cousin is in Miami at the moment and I was going to ask her to bring me Grado's from there. I'm not yet sure which ones (I was thinking about RS-2 if they're cheaper than the list...

There was no thread straightly considering RS-1 vs. SA5000 so here's one. I borrowed a pair of RS-1s from another local headphone freak today to compare them with SA5000. I've now listened to them over two hours straight switching back and forth between RS-1 and SA5000. I think I can give...

I've listened to her two albums (Call Off the Search and Piece by Piece) over and over again and I just have to wonder how can such a young singer be so talented. It's just sweet music to my ears through my 650s. I really love this artist. I hope her career continues for a long long time and...

I've been thinking to upgrade my sound card but I really don't know what sound card could be considered as an upgrade. 1212m has been in my mind but I'm not sure is there any upgrading in there. How does 1212m sound? Is it more cold or warm? It must have optical out. Input's aren't so...

Oh boy was I surprised when FedEx courier called me 30 minutes ago and said that he was waiting downstairs with a package for me. I expected this beauty to arrive Wednesday at the earliest. Rudi sent it Friday and it arrived today. Can shipment get any faster? First thing which impressed me...

So I'm going to upgrade my amp and I have narrowed my options to these two amps. You can see my equipment on my sig. I listen to rock (mostly), pop, funk, rap, hip-hop, soul, trance, house and so on. Almost everything else than heavy music. Especially rock is very close to my heart so the new...

I bought these "legendary" cans couple of days ago to complement my 650s. While 650s does almost everything well in rock they just are too warm and dark. So that's where 531 comes in. I bought them as new and now I'm wondering that how do they change by burn in or do they change at all. I'm...

And what is it? Well it's Beyerdynamic's legendary DT531! It all started when I went to local hifi store to pick up DT880 for home test. DT880 was great headphone but maybe still a tad too bright for me. When I returned them I saw that they were also selling the "legendary" DT531. I was...

Today I just suddenly got this crazy idea that I have to try DT880's at home so I called to local HiFi store and asked DT880 for home audition. It was okay and I went there right away to pick them up. Salesman just gave me a box and I thought everything is fine. That damn aluminium box of...

So as I promised I make own thread for V2. My V2 arrived on tuesday and I still haven't had good time to make a critical listening about it. Still my first impressions are good. I think sound is better detailed, more extended (in both ends) and somehow clearer. I wonder what burn in will do...

Topic tells it all. One finnish DIY cable maker would make me a cable for my senns but we don't know where to get those rare connectors which Sennheiser uses. Look at the pic if you don't know what I mean. Picture We have already asked the Finnish importer about those Cardas connectors...