These travesties always make me wonder how the mastering engineers feel about all this.  By virtue of being mastering engineers in the first place, they almost have to be nerds who would ordinarily take pride in their work.  Unless they're just that incompetent, or unless they're numb to it all...

Quote: No problem, and good luck!  Most people coming into the hobby who try them seem to really enjoy them though, myself included...so fingers crossed.  If it turns out I steered you wrong though, you can yell at me. ;)

Quote: Unless you already have an amp or plan on buying one alongside your headphones, I'd definitely go for the Samson SR850 over the Superlux 668B.  It's just more convenient to be able to be able to plug your headphones straight into your source without worrying about getting congested...

Quote: Unfortunately no, I haven't heard the HA-RX700's, and I can't find any graphs for them either.  Judging by the responses in the following thread, the highs are indeed sharper than the HA-RX700:  http://www.head-fi.org/t/554971/jvc-ha-rx700-or-samson-sr850 Someone even used the...

Quote:   There is actually one more difference:  The 668B has a higher impedance (from electrical resistors), and so it is more likely to require an amplifier to shine.  Otherwise, the sound could get a bit congested.  The SR850 has a much lower impedance, and it can be driven directly...

Quote:   My HTF600's started breaking the week I got them.  Tap them wrong?  They break.  Play a wrong note?  They break.  Tilt them wrong?  They break.  Fix the right side?  The left side breaks.  Forget to do a ritual dance to ward off evil spirits?  They break even more.  It's just...

Quote: I own the HTF600 and bought one for a cousin, and I also bought an SR850 for my mom, so I've given those a listen as well.  As long as you're not overly sensitive to highs, I'd definitely go with the SR850 out of the two:  It's just plain more reliable.  The HTF600 is notorious for...

Quote: I haven't paid attention for almost a year, so there may be better options nowadays, but...if not, you can get them from Russia with love: http://www.gd-audiobase.com/   They ship headphones old-school style:  They wrap the package in a waterproof seal, walk it to the ocean...

I haven't been around these parts for a long time: Has anyone ever found a real/permanent solution to the problem of one or both channels "going out" and becoming hollow? Mine have gotten to the point where they "break" regularly, and blowing on them and banging on them rarely fix anything...

Quote: Out of curiosity, did you make that change for the purpose of elegance, sound quality, or both?  (I haven't been keeping up with anything around here for pretty much all of 2012.)  To my completely untrained eyes, the original version appears to have a smoother/less bumpy frequency...

Quote: I would be interested in the same.  My FA-011's came from the batch that apparently had issues, but I love them anyway.  (I wouldn't feel right RMA'ing them for an improved version, and I can't even imagine how long the wait time would be.)  The annoying thing about them is that I...

Quote:   Before I even heard the name "Cotton Dryers," I wondered about using something like a white undershirt (the same night I wondered about honey combs).  It's probably a nonsense idea, since I thought of it when I was halfway asleep and delirious, but the name of LFF's other...

Quote: You're not crazy, and you're not alone.  I finally got around to performing a few mods a few days ago, and while I was too conservative, they changed the sound enough to make my T50RP's sound decent.   I listen relatively quietly (sometimes very quietly), but I noticed a feeling...

Quote: If you get the same one as mine, you'll know it when you see it.  It's a white and blue box with Russian ALL OVER it, haha.

Quote: The shipping box I received from Russia was: 17 and 1/8" x 10 and 5/8" x 7 and 7/16"   It's pretty big. I also just realized how cumbersome it can be to write the fractional parts of lengths in United States customary units.  I love my base-2 volume measurements for...

I can't wait until I can play some Skyrim with these...I just never have the time to dedicate to it.   I mentioned before that the comfort was a huge problem for me, but the tissue mod worked wonders.  Actually, I used a paper towel half-sheet for each cup, rolled it, and twisted it to make...

If you get paid more than $20/hour, it would also be more economical to spend the 3 hours doing your own job instead, where you're in your element.  DIY is fun and educational, but there's nothing wrong with division of labor, either.  Besides, not everyone owns a soldering gun in the first...

Quote:   I've always read that the D2000's are easy to drive, but I never realized just how much of an understatement that was until I looked up the specs and the frequency/impedance graph just now.  It's not just 25ohm impedance but 106dB/mW sensitivity, and the impedance curve is very...

Quote: Alright, I'm trying to do a roughly volume-matched test of the HTF600 against the FA-011, but I'm running into some problems. One thing has become very apparent:  My problem yesterday was that I got a channel imbalance again, and it seems to affect the bass frequencies the...

Quote: Thanks.  I'm really wondering now if there's something wrong with my HTF600's, and/or if there are huge variances per unit...hrm.  

Quote: MalVeauX, I remember you posting recently that the FA-011's aren't as bassy as they're made out to be.  However, my FA-011's are just obliterating my HTF600's in terms of bass impact.  Although I might be having issues with my HTF600's today, my FA-011's have stronger bass than I...

Um, guys...   I think I might have somehow wrecked the bass response on my HTF600's today with sine sweep bass tests.  (I didn't even try anything particularly ridiculous...just 20Hz I think.)  They sound suddenly bass-light in some way, to the point where my Re-ZERO's have more impact. ...

Quote:   It's not just a matter of patience though:  Timodeus ordered in August.  He never received his, and gd-audiobase isn't exactly picking up the tab for him.  He's not the only one either, judging by ebay feedback.  It would be one thing if people only had to put up with long...

Okay, time for sound quality impressions: For starters, I think the high end is the most interesting/unusual aspect of the FA-011.  I haven't heard anything quite like it (recall my limited experience though), and it's almost as if the headphones respond to treble in a totally nonlinear way...

Alright, after all the drama, I finally received mine!   They arrived in a nice Fischer Audio carrying bag, which was placed inside a roomy cardboard box.  There wasn't any packing material in the box, but the sheer amount of air in the box gave the headphones a bit of protection (along with...