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+1 for the tap handle stands. -1 for TheOtus. Make that -2.

Quote: With Peter and the entire Beyer service team?  

Quote: A "built-in power supply" doesn't mean it is "off the grid", it just means the power supply/connection to the mains is in the same housing as the rest of the amp.

It sounds like a hair crept in. Gently blow the driver clean.

Nice. The mod is really easy and it is as easily undone as it is done, so there's no risk involved. The fun thing is that you can try different things to get it exactly to your liking. I tried different materials (paper, cork, plastic, felt) and you can also try perforations in the disk...

The Trafomatic and the T1 are a very good match actually...

I tend to agree...  (see my avatar)

Quote: Did you check if you properly screwed the cable in the cup?

Quote: Not just lately. This has been the case with HD600/HD650 from Sennheiser and DT880/DT990 from Beyerdynamic for instance.

Quote: You mean complementary headphones?

Quote: Weight including the cable in both cases?

Do other people here hear a difference?  If so, how did it get there?

Quote: I don't know what is what, but the d.flac file sounds much better to my ears. More space and more detail. The c.flac file sounds comparatively compressed.

Quote: Sounds like a tube. Was your amp still heating up? Tubes can make a sound like that when heating up or cooling down.

Quote:   Absolutely great!

I think the original poster has grandchildren by now... 

Quote: I think the wood is not visible. It is covered  with foil and then coverd with the red laquer.

Yes, the price tag is understandable, but still rather high, too high for me to spend on a whim any way. And I find it a bit of a pity what Larry does with the heat shrink on the cable sleeving. 

It never ends, does it?  

Quote: It is Chris' tone and attitude that is the problem here, and I don't see where I made an assumption???? He made an "I'll tell you how it is" -statement that was beside the point, wrong and misdirecting. Nothing baseless about stating that.   I couldn't care less about my...

Quote: Balancing headphones does not  "just remove the common ground" . It feeds the ground wire for each channel (separately of course) with an inverse signal. So the driver gets instead of signal/ground signal/inverse signal. To make that more easy to visualise you could picture it like...

Quote: He's wrong for the relevant part. HE500 were specifically designed to be EASY to drive, so no big surprise that balancing them didn't make a lot of difference.... But if you prefer to accept the misdirecting blanket statement of the nice guy who acts like he thinks he knows it all...

Quote: The reason (and effect of) balanced output into your drivers is unrelated to the balanced conecting of source and amp, your  statement is therefore irrelevant and rather ignorant. Please do your homework before you make a fool of yourself and steer other people in the wrong...

Quote: Get a better amp or keep the volume lower.