The O2/ODAC is popular and very capable but it still has a very much DYI look with exposed screws and ergonomics playing a second fiddle to cost. 

I went with the Sennheiser pigtail with my LCD-2s :).

Quote: 1. They tend to work themselves out over a period of time. 2. Thin, small threads and something that is ostensibly screwed and unscrewed on a semi-regular basis is perhaps not the best mix.

AKG K550 is a decent pair of headphones. The Denon Dx000's are not the best if you actually need a closed headphone rather than a "closed" headphone. 

Android compatible as in with a remote and with a mic? Or do you mean something else? There are not a lot of audiophile headphones that have mics and remotes; generally audiophile headphones have rigorous amping requirements which is normally mutually exclusive with mobile devices.   To be...

The HE-400 has a delightful sound for the cost. I had one for a while paired with the O2 amp and thought they sounded very good in all regards.

I think the LCD-2's are the clearly superior headphone; I wouldn't say there is a metric by which you can say that the HE-400 is better than the LCD-2. I had a chance to listen to the HE-400 again recently after having owned the LCD-2 for a few months and don't regret having spend 2.5x the money...

Great headphones. I have been using mine for a few months now and am impressed every time I use them.

Is anyone else not a fan of the stock cable. The new style flat cable just feels cheap to me for some reason. I'm not a believer in cables (quite the opposite actually), but I kind of want to buy a new one just because I am OCD.

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Denon D2000 if you can still find them are great for bass.

How much money are you willing to spend?

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Denon D2000 if you can still find them (or you can pick it up used).

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Am I the only one who thinks that the Ety's look pretty cool; at least better than the blobs of translucent plastic that a lot of the new generation of IEMs look like. 

Quote:   The problem with analog signal is much more difficult to quantify. I can see things like ambient air pressure, air temperature, humidity, how clean your ears are on a given day, your blood pressure at a specific time, position of the headphones on your head, etc to all make a...

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Quote:   That's somewhat different in two key ways:   A. You cannot say that it sounds better out of the E11 unless you double blind test it with a reasonable confidence interval (i.e. not try it 4 times and if you guessed right 3 times call it a day).   B. The circuitry in the...

I have only tried the HE-400 and the LCD-2 is in every way better than the HE-400.

Quote:   The deepest base would be a x Hz tone as x --> 0, or as T, the period, of the oscillating medium goes to infinity. I.e. something that is nearly still.

Steppin' Razor by Sublime ahs a wonderfully deep base line going throughout.

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