Hello everyone and happy Easter, To my great dispair, I seem to have lost my Yuin PK2s while I was travelling last week. Probably left them in the hotel room or something. Grrrrrrr! Anyway, it's a good excuse to try something else. I'm very happy with my home rig but not too satisfied with...

Hi, Here's a question that's been bugging me for a while: you can get DACs for just about any price, from 50€ to 5000€. What is the difference between a good DAC and a not so good one? For instance, I look at the expensive ones, e.g. Musical Fidelity X-DAC V8 which upsamples everything to...

Hey up Folks, As the second big step of my setting up a complete stereo package for myself. After many months of discussing, suggesting and reviewing, I settled for the source and headphones for my setup: Source: USB interface M-Audio FastTrack Pro Headphones: AKG K501 I've still yet to...

Out of all the currently-produced and realistically-priced AKG headphones, if you could only keep one, regardless of price, which one would it be and why? Seeing that there are quite a few people hesitating over which AKG to buy, I thought this poll could be interesting and give some...

'Evenin' folks, Just got my AKG K501 today. I swapped my Senn HD595 for them with a pal in Germany. My thinking when I got the HD595 was: highly-rated, efficient headphone for under 150Euros. Efficiency was a big factor for me because I'm driving my phones directly from a M-Audio USB...

In most of the reviews of the K501 on the web, I read "great for classical music". Okay, but what do they call "classical music" in the first place? Classical music could mean anything: solo guitar, solo piano, solo violin, cello + guitar duos, flute + sax duos, orchestral works, etc. You can...

Hey up fellas, Ultimately, my goal is get a decent pair of speakers for myself. Unfortunately, I neither have the money nor the space necessary to do that at the moment. I've therefore settled on headphones for now. With that in mind, I'd rather not have to splash out too much dough on my...

First of all, I'd like to warn you that this post is completely pointless... I'll just be giving my personal, unprofessional impressions on the HD595s after having listened to them for a day. So, if that's nothing to you, don't bother reading on. The reason I purchased the 595s was that I...

Hello fellas, I've been hesitating over what headphones to buy for a while. I travel a lot so, even though I'm very keen on quality sound, I have to keep my setup mobile. At the moment, I use a laptop with an M-Audio Fast Track Pro USB interface. I tend to live in places where I can't set up...