TL;DR version: I have 225's and I want NON-FOAM pads but I'm not a DIYer....   Yo! I've got a pair of 225's I bought more than ten years ago, they're still going strong, but I really need to finally get some mods done and I'm definitely not a DIYer so it's got to be something easy or something...

what brings down the o2 odac for me is lack of any digital output except for USB, even on limited edition.... stuck with PC for player ;p

I've got Grado 225's   I can't stand the foam, no hope for it, not gonna paint them or tape or  whatever. ;p  I just want some kind of pad I can put on there and not have to worry about little bits of it flaking off in a month or two.   Whatever changes the sonics the least (or, at least...

Hey, I do need to get a decent DAC/Amp, just been using the jack on my receiver, it's meh. Was considering the ODAC+O2 combo, seems like the flavor of the month.   Regardless of what I get I wish I knew what to do with those Precide 2's besides just throw them away. And if I could just find...

I bought some Grado 225's about 12 years ago and they're still my go-to cans. The cable's twisted, I'm sure the transducers aren't in the best shape though I don't get grattle, mesh is interspersed with itty bitty pad foam grains, and I've really beat the hell out of them at times yet they keep...

So they're supposed to last for years or something, I guess - but for me they all just start randomly dying about four months after installation.  Is there something wrong with my ceiling fan or are these longevity claims just crap - or what?  I'm just getting tired of buying so many of these...

Hi, thanks for reading! Bought this a couple years back from another Head-Fi'er, worked great even though I screwed-up one of the gain adjusters by stripping-out its dial with too much torque.  Listened for a while, but then I had to put it in the closet for a while.  Nothing weird about my...

Hello! I am trying to find some orchestral or jazz recordings of popular music from the Western countries from 1900 to 1950. I have found many good recordings of songs from this period, in countries like USA, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, etc., but most of them have vocals recorded, and I...

Hi, Yes, have tried forced refresh, deleting cache and temp files, etc., etc. Always the same problem.

oh I've also been playing a game on Steam called "Red Orchestra." It has the best ballistics/ironsights system I've ever seen in a game, but there's like almost nobody playing it. I wonder if anybody is still playing BF1942, I used to play that all the time...

Hi! The first Baldur's Gate isn't so hot. Did you try BGII with the expansion pack? And just to be clear, I'm talking about the PC games, not about the Gauntlet-like Baldur's Gate console spin-off series BG2 wasn't my favorite of the games I'd listed, though. If you already like...

My native resolution is right. Windows 7 is updated all the way, even all the optional updates. It's not the clarity of the type that I'm concerned about, it's the various errors in the rendering of the webpage. When I was giving the example of the text being unreadable in buttons, you have...

I have been playing a game called "Dragon Age." I'm afraid I don't care for it and will stop where I am, a little over halfway through. The lore is constantly contradicting itself, the writing moves me only to embarrassed laughter, and the combat system is no more tactical than a bad MMO...

Hi! I don't have Cleartype on. I have installed the newest Flash, Java and Quicktime, yes. It isn't the websites. It happens with all websites. Every single website on the internet gives me these troubles now. Here is what Microsoft.com looks like for me:

Hi! I've used IE, Firefox, Safari and Chrome - and all exhibit the same basic issue. Never had this until I installed Windows 7, though - it just didn't happen in XP. Background images don't work anymore, nor do many sorts of images that constitute "buttons" for links. When I purchase...

Thanks for the replies guys! I'll keep looking. At least most of these online retailers let you send it back if you don't like it, unlike a lot of eBay sellers. I was considering big black round Harold Lloyd style glasses, or maybe little thin round John Lennon style. I don't know - I guess...

Hi! I'm sorry to post a dumb question like this to your thread, but I'm thirsty - The corner of the States that I live in just doesn't have any particularly good microbreweries. I've had some great beers around the country as I've traveled - but I don't have any luck finding them online...

That's a good point! Mine are pretty thick. I think I would like a "top rimless" style... The problem you see is that my eyebrows are quite thick, so any kind of frame with a substantial top to it - it just doesn't look right. Also difficult to know which shape to pick!

Haha, I will not pierce my nose. Thanks for the tip though! Yes, I have seen Silhouette. Unfortunately they have the problems I mentioned. While their bridges are not so ornate as to be an issue in that regard, they still extend too far into the lens itself for my liking, and all have...

Hi! I know that I just posted a thread about eyeglasses, but I think that this topic is sufficiently distinct that it warrants a new thread. Lately I've really been digging Japanese and other East Asian styles of fashion and design, and since I'm searching for eyeglasses, I thought maybe...

Hi! I haven't the money for LASIK/LASEK, and I just can't get the hang of inserting and removing contact lenses -- so I'm stuck with glasses. I've been wearing the same frames for about eight years now - with the prescription only changed once. I definitely need a whole new pair! My...

Sorry for the dumb question everybody - but could anyone explain why one could not just use speaker amps instead of a "headphone amp" -- provided that you had your headphones terminated in such a way as to connect? It seems to me like then you might get a lot more amping power for quite a lot...

Quote: Originally Posted by iriverdude Vote yes to national health care ;-) Or maybe move to the UK. Since America is the worldwide bastion of democracy, we can only vote yes to national health care if it's presented to us by the reigning senate. It hasn't been, isn't being, and...

*and by Romanized I means transliterated into Roman characters Hi! So I've been kind of confused about this lately - Any educated person knows the basic rules of Latin pronunciation - and in countries speaking Latin-based languages, even the uneducated know! So, if it was the...

great game as far as darkly themed point and click adventures go but you really should read the story too you know i'm sure that in a few years EA will remake it as a hand-holding, LiveAchievements-laden first-person-shooter, a la Fallout 3 and will use the word "epic" repeatedly in all...