Quote: So what they said might be true.... there are a lot of paid promoters of products everywhere now. Amazon was guilty of paying some reviewers .. Seems like everyone is using word-of-mouth marketing nowadays.

Wow.. no one is interested in picking it up from me at usd$350?

If you guys are interested, i can try ot see whether i can get X1 for you guys inclusive of delivery at USD$350 from singapore. PM me.. but I will need to check whether the retailer have discovered he mispriced the product! ..lol.   Of course, payment thru paypal could be done.. but i...

Quote: We expect the higher the price, the more listening pleasure you get from the phones. But there could always be exception. CAL is one of them :)   Well, I wouldn't use X1 for gaming, the soundstage is not that wide (compared to AKG Q701). The X1 has an immersive soundstage like I...

Quote: However, you need to consider this if you are interested in re-creating the ambience sound of a home theater system or that of a cinema. Mainly the deep flabby bass that subwoofer pumps out in volume. The noise from the environment that seeps in partially like in a cinema. You are in...

I'm so excited! I just got the X1 in Singapore for sgd$329. But the strange thing is ... M1 and L1 are priced at sgd$430-490... GO FIGURE!!! ..LOL... CATCH Of the Year for me!     Build quality : EXCELLENT. Comparable to HE-400. Sound Quality : Very heavy Bass... More than HE-400...

Quote: Ya.. I guess the inconvenience is deterring me .. I would much prefer they delivered the replacement via fedex and i returned the faulty pair to fedex same day.  Anyhow, maybe i'll asked fedex to pick up the parcel since they are reimbursing and money is no issue.. hehe...

I'm in two minds whether to return. 'coz it is not really a bugbear to me as the treble spike does not happen often for me.  I've been playing games and listening to music and watching bloomberg for the past 3 days (almost 12 hrs daily) with it and I have only noticed at most 3 spikes. Very...

Quote:       What a bummer. Dr Fang, could you see whether you could arrange to Fedex the replacement to me and I give the defective product to the Fedex guy in return.  It saves us the trouble.   I'm peeved especially when my product was shipped out on 6th October Hongkong...

Quote: Just a suggestion for those outside US (me included)>   Will it be good for hifiman to use Fedex to send us our replacement headphones and at the same time returned the faulty headphones to the same Fedex guy. It would be good for us to have a headphone to listen to till the...

I got my fostex T50 modded by MayflowerElectronics. Anyway, I found it comfortable but could still be improved and I did this.. lol..   1) Put the stock pads on top of the Shure840 pads 2) Stuff a thin sponge shaped like a crescent onto the earpads to give it a lift ala Sennheiser HD518...

Quote: If you are purely working off a desktop and have a seperate amp to drive any power-hungry headphones you have, I think the HUD-Mini is good. E17 is great if you need portability as you can match it with any devices.   For resale, I would think the E17 will move faster than the...

Maybe you can try a Fostex T50RP modded and see how it compares against the HE-400?? :) I'm waiting for mine to arrive.

Thanks postrock. After listening to Denon D400 and D600, I am just enamoured by the sound of them especially the D600 (VERY VERY natural sounding with good bass).   i think I better saved up for that one. I've discovered it's easy to buy a headphone but it's harder to sell them.  :) So, I...

My current headphones ranked in order of preference :- 1) Creative Aurvana Live! 2) Sennheiser HD518 3) AKG Q701 4) Philips Uptown 5) UltraSone HFI-780 6) SuperLuxe 668B     Waiting for my Fostex T50RP Modded to arrive from MayFlowerElectronics.     But I must say...

Thanks project86 for pointing out the error. :)   Ya, i'm not too bothered with having to play thru lossless formats. I piped music thru' spotify and youtube videos and movies/dramas thru' amazon and netflix.

Quote: If you intend to buy HUD-Mini, just buy the OPA2227 from them. It will save your shipping cost and maybe they will give you a discount on the chip? 

Updated experience of using Via Envy Audio USB driver with QSound.   You can download the Via Envy USB Driver from Audinst website to enable Qsound. Qsound is quite similar to Creative's THX settings and the dolby headphone setting in PowerDVD player. If you turned Qsound on , you can...

Anyone know how to go about recabling the Philips Uptown? It is permanently attached at one end to the phones and have flat cable.   I'm thinking of taking out the defective volume control by snipping under it and soldering another cable at the loose ends. Is this workable...

Well, we can always exercise our consumer rights :) My country Singapore don't have a 30day return policy on most of these retail electronics and pretty much no trying of the phones at major retail outlets. So I can either write to Philips or sell on 2nd hand market at a loss or to recable...

Quote: I would love to do that. But just feel pissed I am paying $129 and I get a sub $129 product on top of having to top up to recable.   I'll camp here to wait for someone to show a DIY recabling on Uptown! 

Quote: Thank God! With all those positive reviews with nothing but praise, I thought I'm the only one with a spade of bad luck.   I'm a noob in audio but I really feel the sound quality is just so-so. It's more like a sub $100 category phone. My Creative Aurvana Live! outperforms this...

I bought an uptown headphone recently and was upset to find sound comes out slightly softer on one side (unbalanced headphone). This happens frequently and you have to meddle with the volume control and sometimes pressed it a little harder to gain control of the sound on both side of the...