Thanks again to AudioAddict / Steve for organizing another great event! The meet was VERY well attended, and it was nice to have some manufacturers as we'll as so many head-fires. I had a great time...nice to see a bunch of old friends again, and I met some great new folks as well. As usual I...

Keith, you organized a great meet! Really enjoyed it. Great seeing so many familiar faces. As usual I spent most of my time talking to folks, and most of what was there I had heard previously, although Keith's vintage Stax sounded very good, and made me think I need a vintage set! And also...

I receive a lot of unsolicited PM's asking for advice about gear. I try to offer some reply to most of these, although I don't always have time. But I have received quite a few recently that there was NO WAY I would answer. Why? Because the people PMing me more or less demanded advice from me...

Well, the time is upon us. Thursday night we have games, and we have a very full weekend of them. Saturday I get to start watching at 8:00 am CEntral wine Notre Dame is playing in London. That's unusual. My NU Wildcats open at The 'Cuse in the Carrierdome. It's a game we very much need to win...

Let me start by saying how much I really appreciate Steve/AudioAddict's incredible dedication and hard work making this happen. It was a really great meet! As usual, I spent more time talking to folks than listening to music. Lots of folks I have seen at many meets for many years...not going to...

I thought I would start a running thread to answer questions about turntable setup.  I hope other people will contribute, but I will monitor this thread as much as I can.  Fire away!

Shouldn't this auction be even more clear about the fact that these are really not MDR-R10's?  The CD3000 drivers were not the same driver, were they???   http://www.ebay.com/itm/350504843802

REVIEW – Audeze LCD-3 planar magnetic headphones   Introduction:   The announcement was a well-kept secret, and it hit the head-fi community like a ton of bricks.  Audeze was coming out with a new headphone, the LCD-3, which would feature a new driver, new pads, slightly uprated...

REVIEW: Red Wine Audio “Audeze Edition”  balanced Headphone Amplifier – DAC combo   Starting Up   I was very intrigued when I saw that Red Wine Audio, ALO, and Audeze had gotten together to offer what amounts to a complete headphone listening system.  The subject of this review is...

It's time to start talking CFB again, fellas! It was quite an off season. The Big Ten is going to be quite something this year. Nebraska is in, Tressell and Pryor are out. We have a title game. Wow. As for my Northwestern Wildcats, I think you can argue we have the best returning starting QB in...

REVIEW: Ray Samuels Audio Dark Star solid state headphone amplifier   Funny how adaptable the relatively small headphone amplifier industry is.  A couple of relatively small headphone makers, Audeze and HiFiMan, introduce some relatively expensive but very highly acclaimed (including by...

Starting Up   Todd The Vinyl Junkie offered me the opportunity to review the latest offering from Apex, the “Arête” headphone amp.  Which of course I jumped at – it looks like a nice design, and I had thought very highly of the Apex Peak I reviewed last year.   The Arête is really as...

Some of you may have read about this room in Stereophile:   http://www.stereophile.com/content/road-trip-0   The University of the South is a small, mainly liberal-arts college in Tennessee.  It so happens that my Father taught there for more than 30 years (he is now semi-retired and...

REVIEW: Musical Paradise MP-301 MK2 vacuum tube integrated amp   Introduction/Overview   I received a review loaner of the MP-301 Mk 2 from Garry at Musical Paradise in Canada.  I had a good experience previously with the original MP-301, and had reviewed it favorably a couple years...

Truly one of the most influential figures in audio history. RIP, Sidney. http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-13/sidney-harman-1918-2011-statement-from-the-family/#

  REVIEW: Ray Samuels Audio SR-71B balanced portable headphone amp   Overview   Is it really possible that there is yet another level of performance to be squeezed out of a portable headphone amp?  Apparently so.  I would not have believed it, but two amps recently have changed my...

REVIEW: Musical Paradise MP-302 Class D headphone/speaker amp with USB DAC     Description   Garry from Musical Paradise asked if I would review a new amp, and he sent me a loaner of the MP-302, which is a kind of swiss-army knife kind of a product.  Based around a Class D Digital...

What did the HE-90 cost when it was in production?  I'm curious as to how much of an "unobtanium" premium that represents.   TIA.

I am a huge David Gilmour fan, and so I bought this album on the release date.  I am not very familiar with Ambient, though.  I like this record, but I'm wondering if people who consider themselves very into Ambient like it.

  REVIEW – Schiit Audio Valhalla Tube Headphone Amplifier     What Sort of Schiit is This?   I read, as did many of you, the head-fi threads about the very popular and attractively priced Schiit Asgard.  But to be quite candid, I personally had about as much interest in an inexpensive...

INTRODUCTION     Before I even received this product for review, I knew this was going to be a challenge.  Since there was a certain head-fier, who shall remain nameless, who was making it his number one mission in life to “promote” the Lyra at every possible opportunity, I was worried...

There has been some question about how many LCD-2's have made there way into the hands of owners, and so I thought I would start a thread for that.   Please list your moniker and serial number.  Please copy all the entries before yours when you post, so there will be a rolling list without...

Well, it's happened again.  Last night it thunderstormed with torrential rains literally all night long, and I knew when I got up this morning it was going to be bad.  And it was:       That is the view from my deck, looking at the back yard.  Trust me folks, there is supposed to be...

Mark Schneider from MusicDirect (who posts as FZMan here on Head-fi) came over to my table at CanJam and told me he wanted me to listen to the effect of a new Mobile Fidelity (a brand name MusicDirect owns) called Sonic Connect, which is a two-step contact cleaning fluid system.    Info on...

Introduction and Description   I received a review loaner of the Blossom BLO-0299 from Drew at Moon Audio.  The Blossom is a pretty small-footprint amp (64 x 158 x 212 mm), which is partly possible since it uses an external power supply (about which, more later).  The Blossom is made in...