Quote: Thanks. She said okay :)

This is really random, but I bought my dad an amp + headphone combo for his birthday this coming Friday thinking that it would suffice to just run music out of his iPad playing ALAC files. My mom just texted me saying that she was in Korea with my dad (I had no idea they were there o.O) and she...

Quote:   They've never let me down :) 

got my inspiration from a lot of the pictures i've seen on this thread (and a lot of time to save money on my really lame budget). the ipod and the e17 arrived today.   my trusty old um2's (they're going on 10 years now! some yellowing but still going strong) > classic 160 > fiio e17. cheap...

Quote:   this seems to be the general consensus. 

Quote:   thanks devin. your referral really worked out for me. he initially rejected my counteroffer twice and brought it down to 320 and wouldnt budge past that. i pmed him saying that i was working within a budget and he arranged a paypal invoice transaction and sold it to me for 299...

just purchased the HD600's brand new for $300 and got the Mayflower Standard Special Objective2.   Thanks a lot guys :)

*edit: never mind, i just read about it and realized it was open source.    one last question. is there any difference between the o2 by mayflower electronics and the o2 by jds labs?

@yokken and brooko   I appreciate your input. It's funny how my opinion changes on a daily basis. After some thought I decided to go the budget route and go with a completely different set of cans, the AKG K272 on lingling's indirect recommendation because I thought what the hell, if he has...

Quote: lol.   i really do thank everyone for the input though. great forum, everyone's been very helpful thus far.

Thank you for the insight. I do agree that at this point hat if he enjoys what he listens to with what crap he's using, then even a $30-$40 pair of headphones would be a significant improvement to what he's currently using. I have a bad tendency to equate more money to significantly better...

@lingling and palmfish This wasn't quite what I was expecting lol; maybe I need to clarify a little bit.. Why do you say that he won't appreciate the quality of the HD600? On re-reading my original post, I think I made it seem like he listens to music while moving around the house / office a...

I just got my TF10s in the mail today. I wasn't sure how to do a search for this, so I thought I'd just ask.. Does anyone else use the TF10s in the opposite configuration? I wasn't really sure how to put them in, so I took a look at Google images and saw how they protruded a bit if you put the...

Hello everybody.   I've been looking for some nice cans to get for my dad for his 60th birthday and the HD600's came recommended by a few users over here. I don't know much about full-sized headphones and although I've seen some Senn models here and there I'd never heard of the HD600 until a...

i could never put my finger on exactly what it was in this genre of music that i loved, but i knew two things: 1. the songs i liked were all from progressive trance albums and 2. no vocals. i don't know if anyone here enjoys this type of trance, but i thought if i listed a few here and you guys...

gotcha. thank you both.   i have to admit, i have a hard time imagining my dad holding an altoids can while listening to music. i doubt he even knows what they are haha 

I was wondering about this too. FAQs say that you need a minimum of 10 posts or 15 days as a member in order to edit your profile.   You've got 8 posts to go my friend.

Quote:   Any reason that you'd recommend the Headroom Total Airhead over the Fiio E11?   I suppose it'd help if the question were more specific. I've been doing some reading yesterday and today so hopefully I can understand any responses that might come.   How would each of these...

Quote:   eneloop batteries are shiz. i have them in just about every battery powered device i own.

Quote:   haha, I've actually lurked on these forums for about a year. i never thought i had anything to contribute, so i gleaned what information i could on what was generally popular here.   i'm on the post your rig thread a lot checking out people's portable rigs (i see a lot of...

@devhen and kg jag   thank you guys so much. this really helped.   i'm going to put your suggestions on hold, because i think i got my sister and her fiance to help contribute to the gift. it will increase my budget (and my options for purchase) quite significantly..    will let you...

@zein - looks like a good compromise, but i think even as a poor college student, $150 might be skimping a little too much haha. gotta show papa bear some more love.    @dev - you know, just picturing my dad listening to music at home, i feel like you might be right about going with open...

@devhen   Ah, so do you think that for the kind of music that he listens to open back headphones would be better?  (I don't know the difference in the effect of the sound between open and closed headphones, other than that sound leaks out of open cans and not closed cans).

Taking an amplifier out of the equation saves me some money.. or adds to the budget for the headphones lol.   So you've encompassed lows, mids and highs, which doesn't narrow my options much. I'm currently at school in Charlottesville (sorta in the middle of nowhere). I'm not sure where I...

Hi, new here..   I don't know much about audio terminology and all that.. I've always loved the world of the audiophile and I've lurked on these forums for a while before deciding to join yesterday. Mainly to get some advice on what to get my father for his birthday.   My father and I...