no. on the sennheisers they're flattened on the outside mesh, and tucked around the rim of the inside in a couple of places. there was mod talk of how to tame the HD800's and i used the silcon on both. i then got silver dragon cable for the 800 and realized the sennheiser cable was adding...

i'm using macks' 'pillowsoft' silicon earplug stuff on my HD 800 and 600's. you can mould it and stretch it thin, and it absorbs vibrations very well and lasts forever. they're about $4.00 a box, 6 pairs, on amazon. a pair works for the headphones.They're something i had around as earplugs and i...

LOL, you need to listen to a really good headphone run off a modern amp. LP's are crap, but available -- we were able to play a piece without changing discs, but the sound quality is compromised. that's why many of us bought the 1/4 in tapes the companies were still marketing. speakers are junk...

yah, actually, my favorite recordings are acoustics with single mic... the 78 grabs a lot of information and makes for very clear bass. naturally, i'm not using a KLH type system anymore -- i'm direct out from a SACD 777es with rheostat attenuator, or an Oppo 105, my HD800's from the back line...

i like and appreciate what you're saying, but i'm not sure that these recording were actually produced with this linear balance -- and, perhaps i'm wrong -- perhaps it's just that the mics were placed right over the timpani, for instance... that that's why the mercury's are so boomy... i know...

follow-up   so, i was able to find the FW by searching for the file on google, and i installed it and all, and figured out how to find out what FW i had and all, because of the link to the dx50 discussion.   so, thanks, everyone.   mike

thanks, just seeing the stuff about the 50 helps too.   so, is IBasso out of business or something? the site's been down for several days.

thanks.

fabulous. now, go actually listen to the recordings. of course, if you can find a SACD digital original recording of Stowkowski's philadelphia please post a link so i can hear what they actually sounded like. you understand that a playback inside a stairwell sounds very reverberant? in effect...

the recording engineer and the company present an average sound for the average system. imagine in the '50's what an average system looked like -- even one with 1/4 tape... the tube amp's coloration, the connecting wire's coloration -- the speaker's coloration. the RIAA curve, too, for LP's...

just got the dx90 -- really like the sound. but, i have no way to check firmware downloading, nor do i know how to see what FW version i'm using -- nor, really, how to use it fully, since there's no manual.   if IBasso is down, is there anywhere on the web i can find these FW updates or the...

really? my HD800's are very well made. maybe you got a counterfeit? -- there was some guy posting that his vinyl was cracking on his 800's.  the 800's are more like a mercedes than the beemer 320 hd600's -- so, what's happening with yours? are they falling apart?

the point is that if it's not the actual sound of the instruments you're looking for, then the sennheisers are more expensive to you than they're worth.   what more are you going to talk about? their color? you're talking about a device for reproducing sound. the focus is on the sennheiser...

it's nothing or it's something. but, does music enter you and reform your consciousness? or, does it cause your consciousness to change into a dancing form? if music is noise, then it changes the brain by singing un-moo sounds at it. the brain turns everything into moo.   if music is like...

if you get music out of a motorcycle revving, then you're musical enough to find music. it's everywhere, and i listened to the teldec Bachs to try to find the music in Bach. what you're saying is real, but remember that there is a violin and it sounds just as it particularly sounds, drawn on by...

am i not being cool, or are you not used to beyond 'me no like'? i'm trying to get conceptual here, so i'm assuming you're a philosopher asking after my thinking processes and as to whether or not i'm going to be able to get beyond the emblematic and obvious. i need your help with this. is music...

"I can totally afford it"   intellectually or emotionally? ah, dollars. but, then, i've always got this pure music going through my head anyway and it costs only social skills and lost friends.

i think what i'm saying is that the headphone or amp isn't an instrument, even though it's the instrument which performs the busch quartet's recording of schubert.   music is noise, and using warm-0-matic wires and phones isn't giving anything but themselves as instrument. people use...

i think it's pragmatically real to actually hear something like the Busch quartet's recordings and have that tell you that there was a different sound at the time. just as a pre-war steinway's sound was sweeter and less analytic -- not more shoddily made or anything, just made for a different...

Thanks! : )   good point. i own the Tacaks' beethovens. they're beautiful. but, i wonder if you've heard the busch schubert recordings? it's from a time before virtuoso individual, where they seem to be discovering the sweetness of the music itself... seem to be wanting the music to be sweet...

the sennheisers are for as color-free a sound space as you can get. a good system will feed only what's on the file to you, letting you hear whether the orchestra or quartet or singer has a brittle tone or not. the julliard quartet was noted for having had an impossibly snobbish and edged tone...

Quote: I have .5 db loss in one ear. We got rid of the tone controls ( and balances and all ) and were sooo pure, and then started using tubes as warmers and cables as coolers to achieve the same effect: no gain in sound quality, of course, compared with the cleaner sound of...