Hey gang, I have a couple amps that have rollable opamps. The units have audio-gd HDAM's installed right now, but I would be curious to try other options. If the units ever went up for sale, I would want to replace the stock part (Burr Brown OPA2134), and keep the HDAM. In searching for an...

Hey Gang, Today I had a lesson in the devious nature of Headphones and Amps and such. Recently, I picked up my first rig (Zune HD->toslink->Compass->Denon D2000) and have been very pleased with the results. When I posted about that, a person told me, in a nutshell, that it would be wise to go...

Hey Gang (apologies in advance for what turned out to be quite a self-indulgent post), A month or so ago I truly quit smoking, and decided to take the money I used to spend on cigarettes and set up a nice little headphone based "listening station". I decided that what I was going for...

I have noticed a lot of dicussion about unquantifiable sound quality properties that are frankly subjective. We use adjectives like "smooth, rich, tinny, warm, brittle" all the time to describe sounds. In this thread I thought it might be useful to talk about the qualities of equipment we have...

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...a Sony a818 and denon C700's. Let's just say there is not only a noticable difference, but a whole world of difference. The 818 does have the great sound quality that it is rumored to, with the only complaint being a slight hiss through the Denons, not as present on lower sensitivity...