Few day bump.

So my Phillips CitiScape Uptowns, while purchased for a steal a few years ago, have finally given up the ghost. The sound was good, but it had some cons that I associated with the price: build quality was sub-par and sound quality was highly dependent on the seal (which was easily compromised...

Fantastic news! Glad to hear it!

Blast from the past. Any chance FiiO's thought on this?   (Also, no, none of the FiiO DAPs are nearly as small as the iPod nano. The Apple DAPs are a quarter of the overall size/volume of the X3.)

Just finished listening to some acoustic stuff by In This Moment's lovely Maria Brink, rounding off the night with "Into The Light". It's hard to articulate the satisfaction these headphones have given me.   Sennheiser, never lose this recipe. Ever.

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  While appreciated, I'm looking more at something like this:   http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=121175517188     I have no need for a 3m long cable and have been meaning to replace it with a shorter cable anyway. I imagine something like this is of comparable quality to...

  Doesn't hurt a thing unless it's a borderline unstable overclock. My particular 2600k is benchmark and gaming stable at 5.1GHz on air, so the piddly 4.3GHz I'm on now is nothing.

Found the problem!   Turns out the issue is actually my 3.5mm to 6.3mm adapter. I thought I was using the Sennheiser 3.5 -> 6.3 adapter but was actually using the Somic adapter that came with my MH-463s. I just found my Sennheiser adapter (the black one) and the sound quality is much better...

  Understood. The files I'm playing are not 24/192 though; I guess I'll be getting a glass fiber cable after all though...       I have. None of it applies to me. I'm trying standard 16 / 44.1 stuff right now and my PC is more than capable of handling the work involved.

No Foobar plugins that I know of and I even uninstalled Realtek's driver and let Windows do its thing natively. Same effects.

  No. I would not hear sound at all via motherboard outputs if this were the case. I verified this anyway though.       Yes. The only thing not max volume is the Magni itself.         Edit: in Realtek Digital Output(Optical) Properties, I can hear sample rates of 44.1 kHz, 48.0 kHz...

Ok, Monoprice Toslink cables came in today so I finally get the chance to test my new Schiit stack.     Asus Maximus V Gene SPDIF output Modi Optical DAC RCA PYST cables Magni Amp Monoprice 1m Toslink Cables (standard & premium) HD 600 Foobar 2000     First impressions are... bad...

Hey guys.   I've honestly loved the hell out of my FiiO stuff (barring some oddness with my E17) and will soon be adding an X5 to the lineup. I started to think about the DAP I prefer to listen to the most and honestly my little 6th gen iPod Nano takes the cake. It's small, light, has good...

Right now I'm not particular about cables. I'll reserve judgment until I have the opportunity to set up proper AB blind testing. Quite frankly, given the nature of digital signals and the means by which we facilitate their travel, I'm skeptical by default that there is much of a difference...

  The "reviews" of that cable make me want to buy another Schiit stack, the glass super Toslink cable, and do proper blind AB testing on people to see if they can hear the difference between glass & plastic Toslink...

Any suggestions for toslink cables? Am I good to go with something like this?   http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=102&cp_id=10229&cs_id=1022901&p_id=1447&seq=1&format=2     Any benefit to the "premium" one besides aesthetics?  ...

Is it possible to give a "bottom line" suggestion for someone who is as conscious about usability and utility as sound quality? I quite like my 6Gen Nano + E5 combo, but hate having to deal with itunes and yet another format or two to deal with. The usability part should go without saying, but...

The Skullcandy SLYR are... okay. Sound quality is 'fine' and I like that you can use it as an android headset, but while the headphones are plugged into the mic receiving cable doodad, you will get hiss. My first SLYR headeset had unbearable hiss, the replacement had tolerable hiss. The hiss is...

I greatly prefer the sound of the MH 463 over the Hi 2050s (I have both). The 2050's are pretty veiled; they have pretty thin bass naturally and I don't know how to mod them to fix the bass without screwing something else up. The 2050's are lighter and more comfortable in the short term, but...

Any word about this fella?   http://www.ebay.com/usr/jiangzhan2012   He's got some silver cables for the HD600 that are... interesting. I'm wanting a second cable as a 'just in case' and while the 3.5-terminated cable is $40 more than an OEM Sennheiser cable, the interest is still there to...

Bump for ideas.

Very interesting results! 55 total preferring the HD600s, 51 total preferring the HD650s, and 10 undecided at the time of this post.   Statistically, the difference is insignificant; people generally like these headphones equally. However, the few people more who voiced preference for the...

Loving the s*** out of my new 600's... satir, you're a gentleman and a scholar for selling these phones as you did. They're freakin' lovely.   And now to make this post modestly useful:   Source: Meizu MX   I've been putting in some hours listening to various FLAC files (and learning the...

Hey guys.   I'm currently sourcing new furniture to store my headphones and audio gear (currently at four full-sized phones, three IEMs, some 30-40 CDs and a few DVDs/BluRays). I expect this to grow, especially as I start buying DACs & amps. My original thought had been to use one of those...