I'm afraid I don't have an HE-500 comparison.   I think the Talos holds up pretty well against the TH-X00. The TH-X00 is a very formidable headphone, though. In my review I compared the two:   Tonally, I think both really nail the targets they were trying to do. The TH-X00 nails being a...

  Thanks for the review, Keanex! I've added some excerpts from your review to the top level post.

I really didn't like the stock orange cable, but I haven't had any connection problems since switching to a V-Moda Audio Only cable.

  I'm likely going to sell my TH-X00, honestly. The Talos are very good and, honestly, because the Talos isolate more, I use them more often. I haven't used the TH-X00 much since getting the Talos.   On a technical and sonic level, I really dig the TH-X00. I think it's got a great tuning and...

I've been trying out SonarWorks for the past month or so and I'm impressed. I've used it with the HD800, DT990, and the M50x.   I heavily suspect that the SonarWorks house curve is very similar to the Harman speaker curve or the Olive-Welti headphone curve. The main differences is that I think...

I'm actually surprised these didn't have a thread yet.   Would you mind posting some comparisons against the PM3?

      The Talos are an awesome planar magnetic at an affordable price. The first reviews are saying that the Talos are better than all of its competitors in the closed headphone space: Better than the Oppo PM-3, MrSpeakers Alpha Dogs, the NAD Viso HP50. Personally speaking, I preferred them...

It's because the #1 liked post on the home page is based upon the likes in the past 24 hours.   If you look at the 7-day likes, Ultrabike comes up as #1.   I suspect that most of the likes on Ultrabike's post are not in the last 24 hours -- the post is over 2 days old. It looks like Dan's...

  I've edited my post to reflect that the inaudibility of the distortion in this case is constrained to certain individuals and is not universal.

In all honesty, we probably shouldn't concern ourselves too much with the raw THD+N numbers.   We know that distortion at higher signals is less perceptible than distortion at lower signals [0]. Due to the masking effect, we've also observed that even low order distortion as high as 42% can be...

Sorry to necro this thread, but I've finally gotten around to reviewing my Woodphones. Mine arrived back around the time that White Lotus's arrived, but I had lagged behind on getting my review out.   I'm looking forward to seeing reviews for the Fostex-based model come out!   Review...

  Not always.   Amps are commonly limited by two things -- current and voltage. The higher the impedance, the less current is needed to reach the same voltage.    In this case, the LCD-3 is a low impedance, low sensitivity headphone. The HD650 is a relatively high impedance headphone. Thus...

    You're right. I'm just contesting that measurements need to be 100% accurate to be accepted, generally speaking. I probably shouldn't have responded to a facetious point, though.

I think we allow leeway with measurements, though.   Rin Choi did a comparison of the different measurements, and everyone's raw measurements differ in their own way. Tyll's measurement set up is a bit different than everyone else's. Rin Choi's measurement set up typically has a bit more bass...

  Alright, responded to your points and I got some graphs out of the psychoacoustics book.

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I think the more interesting debate is the effect of pad deformation over time.   Consider the following: http://rinchoi.blogspot.com/2012/04/introduction-it-is-generally-known-that.html   There is a massive difference between the measurements of the HD650 with old pads and new. Pad...

  There are people here that will dismiss reviews if someone mentions anything about cables changing the sound. The thought is that "If they hear a difference from cables, how can I trust anything else they hear? Obviously, their ears must suck."   I don't think that's a valid response.   I...

Just because someone's expectation bias results in them hearing a difference doesn't invalidate their previous subjective observations, though.   It's likely not a function of their hearing that caused them to hear a difference with a cable roll -- it's probably just their bias towards...

Hello, Head-Fi Sound Science! I'm looking for critique on my current view on distortion.   Introduction I've been looking recently into the audibility of nonlinearities. As established by studies by both ALMA International [0] and Geddes [1], we know that traditional forms of measuring...

  Most companies OEM out from a manufacturer, so they are rather limited in what headphones they can buy in bulk and rebrand. They can request minor changes, but that's rather limited, too.   Companies that do make their own typically either offer only high end or they offer a spectrum, so I...

  At a given price point, however. You can't put everything you want in a $20 headphone, even if there are things which can improve the sound.

Most materials like that aren't cut to such a fine degree and aren't placed so exactly. It also probably would encounter some QC issues if it ever slid out of place or anything.