Just my unscientific $0.02 from personal experience: If you have a really good amp you will actually listen at a lower loudness level (if "you" are not stupid or deaf already). You will be able to hear all details of the music already at a lower SPL and don't have to crank up the volume knob to...

If what I hear in my set up with the HD800 and GSX-Mk2 is called placebo, then I like placebo:L3000:. Everybody should have some. :beerchug:

Discussing sound differences based on a you tube video recorded with a cell phone ?? <facepalm>

Another link in the MQA chain which doesn't make any sense to me ... They claim to correct any errors of the original ADC and the final DA conversion is following the MQA algorithms and the blue light comes on yeah! now it sounds good! All the processing of the original recording, the mixing and...

If they don't work it's obviously not a huge loss, let us know how you get them attached to the HD800.   I know forking out the dough for the orig. Sennheiser pads needs a tough grab of the wallet, as it might be trying to hide somewhere but honestly getting a 1.5k $ headphone, possibly...

The particular recording that gave me the impressions that they literally move the air, not just that the air transport the music was this one: And the format is the lowly red book CD. People complain about digital music being harsh. How does a piano sound if your are right next to it...

  ...yeah great, yet another new music format     There you go: it involves a different MASTERING.   And the yes, the few K2HD CD's (indeed red book format !) that I own, do sound fantastic. But the K2HD editions generally start with excellent quality recordings to begin with. What has...

Might have been me

I think you are confusing digital input sample frequency (up to 768 khz) with analog output (20hz to 20khz +/- 0.1dB)

LOL, a great recording for sure but I take it you are aware that it has been recorded Dec. 6-7, 1976 on a Nagra IV 1/4" 2 track? Not really DSD So this is a prime example of the capabilities of analog tape recordings when the technician knew how to capture live sounds at it's best.

LOL, respect for thinker to post the selfie and the chutzpah to radically modify the major comfort design shortcomings out of the "new float". If it is wearable for you now and sounds good, then congratulations.   On the other hand it clearly shows that this design is not a headphone, at...

a = analog d = digital c = converter  

B-flat Major, Op.18 No.6 F Minor, Op. 95 "Serioso" E-flat Major, Op.127   https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2017/3/31/0800/PM/Quatuor-Ebene/   I didn't have much experience with these works and I got drenched by the rain on the way from the parking garage 4 blocks away to Carnegie...

I'm gonna listen to Quatuor Ebene playing Beethoven string quartets in about 3hrs, live that is.

The parts that I used are listed under the pictures, e.g. cables: Carol 3x 10AWG, 3C SJOOW / Belden 83803,3x12AWG, plugs : Wattgate. No idea where to source equivalent stuff down under, the web is your friend I guess. 

How about DIY if you are handy? 2 different routes here: http://www.head-fi.org/g/a/891819/power-cables/ I added some heat shrink over the plugs and adjacent cord sections, looks like $250 (sprinkle in some cryo treatment and triple that figure) and cost was probably $50, mainly the plugs...

If you have a little bit of aesthetic perception, you wouldn't use a computer power cord on the BHSE's psu but yes, technically it will work OK.

The cat is dead ... or alive but you can't tell for certain.

You have these from your sign. : [TW Acustic Raven AC, Raven 10.5, Ortofon A90] and you worry about which DAC to choose?

I have heard Gidon Kremer live playing Schnittke's "A Pagannini" from this disc:   Live it was absolutely mesmerizing, solo violin, highly virtuosic, the audience holding their breath for like 10 minutes in awe. You could have heard a needle drop. I think I have only listened once to the...

Especially for you :   Not too bad for a cell phone shot ... I usually don't do this but as everybody else was snapping away even with cameras and people walking in front of the stage to take a better shot, I thought ok, I grab a shot too.

Last night I listened to a new arrival the first time: Acoustic bass and Piano Greatmusic and SQ.

To avoid unfavorable pairings like a bright DAC/amp combo with the HD800 and then people complain about the headphone being too agressive in the high frequency range? Just a wild guess of course. 

  That looks like an "interesting" socket solution to plug the Stax in

I heard Elina Garanca live at Carnegie Hall yesterday afternoon. Kevin Murphy piano. Program of Brahms, Duparc & Rachmaninoff Certainly this vocal recital of Lieder is quite a bit artsy, usually not my preferred genre but she is great.   I got my copy of her new CD signed afterwards.