I just got my HD650 from Amazon.co.uk.   The cartoon box came. I just noticed the following:   - It was padded on top but not padded at the bottom. Any bad handling would damage the contents .... - The product was dispatched by Amazon.de (Germany) and not Amazon.co.uk, the place where...

I think it is a placebo effect to think that at low volumes a Tube Amp will give you any benefits or warmth of the tube.... (Some decades ago I remember the sweet sound of my grandmom's tube radio and I long that era)   If you don't drive the Tube to its limits it will not give you the...

Hello wonderful new friends at head-fi.org I am new to this field but definitely not new to the field of sound as a general. In my endeavour to achieve my best preferable sound signature and stage using speakers with a customized set up of my old but indispensable Yamaha speakers, amplifier...