I have to ship some small, but 25 lbs (total) speakers to Hong Kong from California. Does anyone have any tips for getting them there safely and signed for by the purchaser? Any recommendations for a good service to use or experience with a service to recommend them? Thanks for your help!

Musicians and synth fans, lend a hand with one click (to vote) Hey, I have a couple of the LittleBits Korg Synthesizer kits. They are great fun. They're little LEGO-like electronic building blocks. Korg helped design an analog synthesizer kit, which a lot of guys and musicians are playing...

I just rolled the caps in my Headroom Total Airhead. Don't know if the Elna Silmic II will be an improvement over the Sprague Oscons or not, but "different" should keep me interested for awhile!  

I bought some new momentums and I'm trying to decide if it's time to upgrade my belove JDS Labs CMOYBB to their C421 amp. I love the smoothness of the CMOYBB and the fullness of the midrange and bass. I like a nice warm fat sound. Will I be losing some of the warmth of the CMOYBB by moving to a...

I'm not good a recharging. Whenever the time come to use something with a rechargeable battery in it, I've always seemed to have forgotten to charge it. This is why I like equipment that run on regular batteries AAA, AA, 9-volts. I pick these batteries up at the dollar store and they're worth...

So a seller on ebay is purportedly an authorized Sennheiser dealer. The company was selling "refurbished" Sennheisers on Amazon(with box) and "New, open box" Momentums on ebay (without box). I paid a little extra for a "new" set without box, but received a pair in the box.  Now they certainly...

I want to pick up a refurbished iPod off ebay. I like the sound on the old 5th gen video ipods. There are a couple sellers who deal in refurbishing them. One person sells tradition hard drive model (120gb) and another sells flash drive converted models (also 120gb). I seem to remember some...

All thought it cuts me to the quick as a 14-year member of Headfi and devoted Sennheiser and AKG man, my 18 year old daughter wants headphones for Christmas. We were walking through Staples and she pointed out a bright blue pair of "twistable" Monster headphones. She said, "Oh, I like these. I...

Trying to figure out what headphones these are.      

I managed to short it out deoxitng it. It's not a tube. Smeyhing s fried. Any guys here think they coud handle it. I'm heartbroken. Pm me.

I was listening to my Rotel RCD-855 cd player this weekend and realized how anemic my digital front end was (Mini Mac with lossless). I have to crank down my subwoofer everytime I switch over to the Rotel. So what I need is a DAC that is warm, round and with great bass. Anyone know a Sub$300 Dac...

Sweet! Something classic for free. This is a great remaster by the original engineer who recorded Bowie's Ziggy Stardust. It's a 256K MP3, but even still, it's free from Amazon!  ...

This is my favorite shape of sunglasses, but I can never find them. Tim Burton apparently did. Does anyone recognize the brand.  

  So the trend these days it to build turn-of-the-century industrial-looking designs into cases for electronics equipment, jewelry or whatever. It's know as the "Steampunk" look. I always like that stuff, very Captain Nemo and the Nautilus looking. I also like to browser flea markets and...

Today I went to turn on my Millett and the right channel was out. I did all the "idiot tests" (cable, tube swapping) and then opened it up. I only know how to measure a few things: The tube bias and the bias for the BJTs. The left channel reads normally. The right channel tube bias reads .4 or...

SInce the update of IOS5, I think headfi is even worse than ever on the iPad. Buttons don't work (must double tap every button) and constant crashes. Really a shame. Some one should consider this.

As an old school ipod'er, I dutifully bought an LOD to use with my new iPad (1st gen, iPad). And I've noticed something very weird. Amping it with a Millett Hybrid Maxed, I get hiss when I use the LOD to send the signal to the amp. When I use the headphone jack...no hiss. Also, when I leave the...

Well, I've been playing with my Millett Hybrid Max for about 2 weeks and, in general, I've been enjoying it. But I was curious about the "boutique" versions of this amp. So I visited the excellent beezar.com website - home to all Millett Hybrid. I chose, per Thomas recommendation for a great...

I love my little millett, but I miss crossfeed. As anyone here installed crossfeed on they hybrib max? Maybe you could share a learning exprience for the most successful build?

I have a new Millett Hybrid Maxed amp, and I love so much about it, but I do miss having a crossfeed circuit. I cut my teeth on Headroom products and I love the effect and gentle warming of the sound Headroom's crossfeed. So I'm thinking of building a crossfeed circuit to put into a millett. It...

After my recent rousing success with biasing my wonderful new amp, I was reading more about setting it up at the DIY forum and saw that the BJT DBs must also be biased. I saw this was tricker and approached it with caution.   The left side seems to fall within spec (around 32ma), but the...

So I spent a full day playing with my Millet Hybrid Max (er, work?) and I've found what was bothering me were tubes that weren't a good match for my Senn HD650s and the amp. They were some unknown brand with a really harsh midrange and a lackluster presentation. Putting in a nice set of RCA...

  I thought this might be the better place for this thread   Hi, I just purchased this amp from another member, but, unfortunately, I'm not a Millet expert (nor was the other member). Can Millet Hybrid experts tell me anything about this amp? I know it seems to be a "maxed" version, but...

Hi, I just purchased this amp from another member, but, unfortunately, I'm not a Millet expert (nor was the other member). Can Millet Hybrid experts tell me anything about this amp? I know it seems to be a "maxed" version, but that's all. The sound is okay, but nothing special through my Senn...

Today I was prowling around a thrift store a spotted a set of AKG 141 headphones for sale ($12). I couldn't tell what model they were because the silver badges on the side were missing, but I later figured out the were model 141 - vintage from the 70s, I guess.  They need a lot of juice to get...