It's funny, today I decided just for fun to put my crappy no name computer speakers in an acoustically good position, and I was actually quite surprised by the soundstage they threw. I mean, obviously it didn't have the best depth and they sounded like crap, but I was definitely getting a left...

Everywhere I've read seems to suggest a 4-5:1 speaker to amplifier ratio when buying a speaker setup. I've pretty much figured out what speakers I'm going to buy, which will cost me about 1k, but now i'm having difficulty finding a suitable amp for them. The cheapest well reviewed amplifier I...

And I came out slightly dissapointed to be honest. It's not that the speakers weren't "good", it's just that I wasn't hearing that "midrange purity" and soundstaging that people seem to rave about. The speakers are sexy, there's no doubt about it, but something just seemed off. Perhaps it was...

Well, I went to my local audio shop today and listened to some B&W's. It was such an awesome experience and there are so many things going through my head right now that it's hard to put them all to words, but here are the highlights. 1) I wasn't really very impressed with bookshelf speakers...

I have a gamecube coming that I want to play on my linux machine; Is there a decent way to go about doing this? ideally I'd like it in it's own window, but I have no idea how to pull any of this off. Thanks a ton for your help =D

This thing seems to be one of the more overly hyped pieces of speaker equipment; however, i see VERY few people recommending it. If the things that some of the reviews say is true, why don't more people use this little thing? Should I even remotely consider buying one or building a system around...

Instead of going for an expensive headphone system, I have opted to possibly go the speaker route; however, man, I thought getting into headphones was difficult! I pretty much spent a good 12 hours today endlessly searching and getting absolutely no where. Here's the deal: I have about...

Having recently sold my gilmore lite in anticipation for my GS-1, I decided to up pick a turtle beach audio advantage micro with the hopes of plugging my sr-60's in and having a temporary rig going. Just for kicks I decided to plug in my HD650, expecting to be completely disapointed with the...

I switched over to SUSE and so far it's been interesting, yet slightly frustrating. I absolutely love the interface, the stability, and the customizability, but the terminal stuff and the seemingly rediculous amount of time I have to use it in order to add functionality to linux has been quite a...

Having been secretly saving up for a high end headroom amp/dac combo ever since I heard the micro stack, I've been really puzzled recently by the prices of the desktop lines. It seems that headroom has good control over the high and low end amp markets, but what's with the desktop line...

Hey guys, Recently I've been pondering switching to linux since I've essentially stopped gaming on my PC and want to try something different. Aside from creative not supporting the x-fi on linux (boo), I feel like it wouldn't be too big of a hassle. However, assuming that I get an EMU 0404 as...

The local CD shop is going out of buisiness so i bought 6-7 cd's on an impulse; too bad when I got back and popped them into my rig, the quality was absolutely horrible =/ In desperate fury, I figured the HD650's were the culprit, but a switch over to my sr-60's and even the ksc-75's didn't...

The dac I'm interested in has a coaxial input but I'd like to use the optical out from an airport express. Has anyone used one of these to convert the two? what were your results? http://www.uniqueproductsonline.com/tooptococodi.html I'm mainly concerned about what kind of an effect this...

As much as I've tried to the whole audiophile "listen to a cd as a complete entity" thing, I vastly prefer random/shuffle. I get completely bored after 3 songs if I listen to the same cd/genre/song type. Anyone else with me? =D

Seeing as I'm not too fond of the 4th gen look, I'd like to buy a completely amazing looking case for it. Any suggestions? This is not going to be used portably so portability is not an issue.

Pretty much what the title says. I've been thinking about getting a higher end grado seeing as it's a little unfair for me to compair my HD650's to my sr-60's. I'm also fairly prone to ear pains (the DT880's hurt my ears at times).

I swore to myself that I was NOT going to succumb to the sennheiser headphone god on my portable rig; yep, I was looking for a "fun" sound. The KSC-75's were all that I needed, right? As I sit here with a pair of newly purchased px100's on my new portable rig, I cannot help but question why...

Here's my dilemma; It seems my family may be moving and thus I will need some sort of easily transportable rig when I go to visit them. I'm looking into IEM's again for plane/travel use, but here's the problem; All of the IEM's I've used or tried have sounded like garbage for what I paid for...

Lately I've been pondering getting a satellite radio service for my headphone rig which will (soon) consist of the GS-1 and the HD650's. I was wondering if anyone has a radio set up and whether it's worth it. What do they encode at? Is it going to sound like crap compared to my lossless/cd...

Sorry for my noobishness, but i've done a google search, a wiki search, and a Head-fi search, and I still can't figure this out. What exactly is PRaT?

I don't know what came over me but something made me CRAVE the HD650 and... I bought it >.< Hopefully I won't be dissapointed =D

I've been realizing that I've been listening to whole cd's way more often recently so I'd like a nice source to compliment my DT880's and my incoming gs-1 =). The only problem is that I don't really have any clue where to start at the very least. I've been trying to do some searches/ reading...

I've already heard sacdlover's comparison of the two (thanks a ton =)) But I was wondering if there were any other opinions on this matter. Does anyone have/have listened to the GS-1 and the ppx3 slam with the dt880s?

As I've been sitting here for the last week ampless, plugging my DT880's into my 4th gen ipod, the sound isn't all that bad; dare I say it, it's pretty darn good. While it does exhibit the flaws that I commonly hear about the DT880's (bright, no bass) it's certainly far from not listenable. That...

Not really looking for it for audio purposes, but where can you buy something that can read how much EMI is present in a particular area?