After some experimentation and getting tired of ordering new foams for my IM716s, I settled on the following method for easily and quickly making new foams for the 716s and ER4P/S earphones. 1) Select a favorite foam earplug - I chose 3M 1100 for their durability and availability. 2) Cut...

Just got Upper Egypt and am thoroughly enjoying it. The recording, engineering and mastering quality seem to very much befit the quality of the musicianship. Need to hear more by this ensemble.

Was worth every penny and the short wait for construction. Absolutely stunning as pre-amp in my 0/1 rig. I'm still trying to figure out and analyze in exactly what ways it so completely trounces my previous basic (Rotel RC-970BX) preamp but for now I'm too busy enjoying the sound with my...

I've gotten a lot of good service from this cartridge but it is nearing the end of its stylus life. My research indicates Signet was the Audio Technica high end back in the day. Can anyone recommend a similar cartridge or a source for styli? What are the best high compliance MM cartridges on...

Been doin' a lot of swapping an dmessin' around with source/amp/can combos and have found the Bithead 595 combo with 256kb VBR and higher out of a laptop with iTunes to be a particularly nice combo for casual, heck even serious listening. 595s have been more sensitive to amplification than I...

Howdy y'all, would like some experienced impressions of the GS-1 as combination head/pre amp in SS and tube systems. Actually more interested in preamp performance as there is plenty available here on its virtues as a headamp. I'm going to be pairing one up with a Rotel 980BX and on rare...

While enjoying audio nirvana on the vintage HKs, laid back and relaxed, vinyl spinning, Lambda Pros dancing, my reverie is shattered by a piercing white light followed by cat being torn to shreds sounds and then silence - then the smell of wafting acrid smoke and a faint red glow from under the...

Been doing a little research on power supplies commercially available. I'm considering either getting a Headamp DPS for the Lite, or possibly using the Headroom Desktop Power Supply with both the Lite and the Micro/DM (at the same time, it has six +/- 15V outputs). The other option is Ray...

Howdy all. I've owned and used some B&W CM2 towers for a number of years and am looking for a replacement system that will come close to their form factor and frequency range but maybe offer some improvement in imaging and dynamics. Anyone had experience with these who can make some...

Anyone updated/rebuilt one of these? I'm considering it as a low risk fun DIY project. I have the schematics and moderate skill but it has been a long time since I built anything - last project was replacing diode, caps and resistors in the HK tube gear I own about 8 years ago. I'm thinking this...

Naim CD5i gets kicked in the ^**. Dug up a fossil - a Kodak Photo CD player PCD-270 and for kicks hooked it up to the HK/Stax system to compare to the Naim and various portables. I need to give it more time but this comparison leaves me wondering what is under the hood of this Kodak marketing...

Anyone using/heard this combination? Thinking of going over the Cliffs of Insanity. Possibly later side/upgrade to OIIs. I'm reasonably happy with the SRD-7 Pro but have found these cans respond to every single improvement in the chain and suspect they might have a lot more to give.

I have a 30G iPod video, and have noticed that at higher volumes into headphones (not amps or other equipment) the left channel "runs out" of power (fades noticeably) before the right channel as volume is increased to high levels. Anyone else notice this? iPod quirk? Defect? Operator neurosis...

Knew I should have run from this site. Now my CD player is worth more than my old car and I own a $300 amp the size of a hard disk drive - and I have never heard anything that sounded this good before. Thanks all. The Lite seems to work extraordinarily well with the Naim - more and tighter...

First, thank you all for an informative and enjoyable forum. I own two pair of older Stax cans, an SR-Lambda S/N 05808 and an SR-Lambda Professional S/N 32777, each with its original SRD-7 adapter. I'm getting back into headphone listening and am wondering if these are worth hanging on to and...