I received mine about a week ago. I'm enjoying it a lot. I had been using the ES100 and am wondering whether there is a similar "ambient sound" setting (which basically mixes the level of outside, environmental sound through the microphone to the headphones)? There are some circumstances where...

Thanks Mark, I already sent both the original pair and the replacement pair back in the same box to Amazon. I was working with customer service, but chose to do an initial exchange with Amazon, and when the replacement pair was worse than the first, I just decided to return both the original...

With the iMac, there is only the one location with 2 access points (in-house and one neighbor's). With the iPhone, it happened everywhere using the initial set -- including remote outdoors. The replacement pair was so bad with the dropouts, that I was only able to have one short listening...

You bet. Primary device is an iPhone Xs. Other device is an iMac 27". Both devices no more than 3 feet away from the TWS.

Update: Was having occasional dropouts on the right earpiece, in over 50% of my listening sessions. Received a replacement pair and the dropouts are much worse, longer and more frequent! Going to return both pairs. I can't listen to music this way at all.

I wonder if they have a way of doing firmware updates.

I'm having some occasional dropout on the right channel as well. The piece will drop volume and sound a little scrambled for no more than 2 seconds and then recover. It actually happens once on over 50% of my listening sessions. For me, that's liveable. One time, it happened twice, about 15...

I'm considering purchasing them, but am wondering about the mid-range bump. I'm thinking that perhaps because they are designed to serve the dual purpose of not only playing music, but to hold phone conversations--that they are tuned to be more accommodating for speech. Hence, there's some...

There's also the possibility that someone may have overloaded the Pros, the cable wasn't attached securely, or something... or they are, somehow, defective.   When I listened to both in Best Buy, the Pros sounded MUCH better than the others... (not that I would actually buy Beats products)...

Quote: I used a pillow.

Quote: Yes. There's a couple of posts about that somewhere on here.   Some people have removed the foam ovals which are just beneath the ear pads. Others have removed some foam that's next to the drivers as well. I've tried them without the foam beneath the ear pads, and it makes...

I like the Schiit Lyr (keeping in mind that eventually I will upgrade to orthos, I wanted to get a beefier amp than the Asgard or Valhalla).   Currently, I run Ultrasone 900s (40 ohm) and Senn 650s (300 ohm) on it.   If you do get the Lyr, avoid the JJs tubes.

I have read that some people remove the foam ovals which are under the ear pads and notice a difference. Others have removed the foam and replaced it with material from pantyhose (seriously).   I've tried removing the foam also, and noticed a bit of difference with the highs opening up a...

Most of the Best Buys I've been into have both the Beats models you're asking about on display. You should be able to compare them.   But, like someone else mentioned before, there are a lot of fakes out there. I mean, very authentic-looking fakes. So, a good deal may not be a good deal at...

My pleasure.   Clinical: Everything is very sharp, very strong separation between instruments with different tonal values. Highs will tend to be very clear and crisp. Excellent for, say, electronic music and bright music.   Warm: The harmonic content of the sound has more of a full and...

You definitely didn't hit their peak performance. They will handle many of the higher end amps and DACs that you drive them with.   You have upgrade paths with the amps and DACs, but you also have upgrade paths (and side-grade paths) with other headphones as well, if you choose... It all...

I noticed a difference with mine. When I first got them, they were very sibilant on a couple of tracks in some spots.   I'd leave them burning in over night, and while I was out and about.    Within a few days, the sibilance was a lot less.

I'd look at it this way...   If the customer is auditioning headphones, and has a number of headphones in mind for the sake of comparison, minimizing the source components in the loop will allow him to differentiate the qualities he's looking for in the cans.   In other words, if he...

The Temptations, "Papa Was a Rolling Stone."  

Okay! Jason was kind enough to ship out a set of GEs, which I received on Tuesday. I allowed them to burn in on Tuesday night, and for several hours yesterday. Last night, I enjoyed listening to music for several hours.   Basically, the JJs sounded like I was listening through a sock on each...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yhzxO1QjIA

A lot of it depends on what you like to listen to, and the types of sound signature which interest you the most.   It's tough to go wrong with Sennheisers. The orthos also have a great reputation for sound quality (Audeze LCD2 and LCD3 and the HiFimans)

Han, I will be happy to let everyone know about my experience. Give me a few days to get the tubes and burn them in. I'll let you know how it goes.

The 650s sounded amazing with the HiFiman EF5. Totally awesome sound out of the box.   My EF5 was defective, so I returned it, and got the Lyr instead, because I see it as an amp that can grow with me as I keep delving deeper into the hifi mire. Silly me, I should have read these forums in...

With my 900s, I've used a combination of a burn-in app (Yes, there's an app for that...) and playing music through them at between medium to loud volume...    Mostly, I both listened to them, and allowed them to play at night and while I'm out, giving them a break every now and then. Of...