I need the headphones that specialize in speed, ones that can keep up with the fastest music, but make that hit the 'spot'.. smooth, euphoric, light speed. basically one that, if you are listening to slow music on it, you will feel annoyed because the headphone driver is telling you 'this is too...

I need an amp that sounds very 'warm' and 'euphoric', sweet midrange, good PRAT/musicality and awesome speed. something that hits the spot of emotions. my current set up is way too sibilent, it creates a clinical sound.

in 2009 or so I had a set-up that was the best for me. It produced insane speed and resolution, it was other worldly. the set-up included recabled editon 9s, coming out of RSA portable amp, with a pico DAC... not very fancy I know. but it was the first time in headphones that magic happened and...

If you get used custom iems and reshell them, how close in your experience, to the actual sound were you to buy them officially?

what is the biggest storage ipod option, with no lag in using it? I tried the ipod classic 7th gen but it was way too laggy to scroll through it. is it ipod 5? I would also like hard drive upgrade for it. what is the highest upgrade available?

Is it the best dac amp in its price range? People said that about duet 1 but duet 2 is supposed to be better l

Do you have to refund the buyer? Or does the buyer lose it. i sent a package overseas and after three months it has not arrived.what would you do if you were the seller? I have lost packages before international, it royally sucks. But since the american economy is so bad you are pretty much only...

Or are they just photocopies of the music? If you record and listen to 24 96 will you be getting the correct levels and instrument placement? 

I'm having a hard time finding people take google checkout, which is a simple CC/debit card payment. seems people are still stuck to pay pal/afraid to move away from it.   Just wanted to point out that PP are one of the worst companies in the world. I won't go into it too much but I was a...

I want something with a strong beat, crispy drums that you can get into. I also like emotionally involving vocals where you feel the singer, but not too bright. Is westone 4 worth getting? so music comes alive out of them? Im considering UM3X but vocals werent the strong point on those.

I am thinking of going down to just an ESW9 and ipod touch (5 when it comes out). I can't ever seem to hold onto my high end gear since cash always gets due as you can imagine. Also in almost every set up I put together there is always something wrong or slightly missing). So figure I will wait...

I want to reterminate a 1/4th plug to a 3.5mm 1/8th mini. Will the sound quality be any less?

I am considering portable Dacs in that price range. should I just get a hifiman 602 which can be a DAC as well as a player? Is it copmarable to pico, dacport, streamer + ?

I hear someone say it has bad 'imaging'. Does that mean you don't get a full picture of the music? that you just hear parts of it and not the 'whole'?

Which one of these turned out to be the best portable source??

This was an overreaction on the OPs part to jump to the conclusion he did.  Read on.      I bought a W1000X off a user, with positive feedback (+4, 2 as buyer, 2 as seller), in early March, and after a couple weeks of stalling, I told him to just refund me. He said the money was already...

will hifiman make something even better than 801?  like a hifiman 1000 , something that gets even better quality, battery, etc...  

I have the best portable source/amp, hifiiman 801 and SR-71B. do you think this is good enough to power HD800, balance and give you a great sound ? or does HD800 demand better than them to be worthwhile?

I bought headphones off someone here but he said pay pal is holding all the $$$ and 'investigating' it. so he said he won't send until pay pal is done 'investigating'... it's probably a week and a half by now. what is the proper course of action. is it alright that the seller isn't sending. all...

I already have an Edition 9. I want to get another headphone, such as edition 8. Is it not recommended to have both the 8s and 9s? ... I will use them balanced, with SR-71B. Hifiman as source. So keep that in mind when giving a recommendation.

What has better soundstage, better for classical music, better 'euphoria' ??? better 'musicality'

should I get pico DAC or the balanced iBasso? I have both balanced and unbalanced amp that i will feed them into. what sounds the BEST?  

Is the pico slim a good amp for some full size headphones like edition 8? Or is it just for IEMs?

in all the portable amps I've tried, I was able to drive my cans more than loud enough.  so are these amps with 20 + volts output necessary?  is there another benefit to high volt power different from just how loud they can go? or are they only for high ohm cans like beyers/sennheisers/he-6...

Has anybody compared these two? Which headphone came out on top? Do beyers function well with classical music?