(interested in three realms: 1/ price range usd1900-3000 2/ price range < usd1900 3/ “bang for the buck” recommendations if the product is tonally neutral and has output impedance / current drive characteristics yielding good control for transient and bottom end performance, esp mid-bass)...

hi for medical reasons, i should not use bluetooth headset have just posted a WTB in Headphones for Sale/Trade forum. wondering if anyone might suggest any ETY-COM wired alternative(s) with which you've had good experience? trying to avoid earbud+danglemic. homeless and broke, so cost is a...

hello So this all started when I was listening to Oro Incenso & Birra which triggered some memories... I'm trying to track down some recent info about a dear friend and their family, most probably to be found in a government public database or Milano-area newspaper/website. I would appreciate...

First:  Jude, my apologies, would have posted this earlier on head-fi, but with all due respect for your work and one of the finest communities on the web, my only computer is older and not handling the site well.  Please understand, I love head-fi, but too little computer horsepower coupled...

  hello all,     a very dear friend of mine, John White, is in the home stretch of preparation for filming a fascinating story of inspiration and rebirth. Limantour is to be an independent, narrative short film, focused on a key event in the evolution of a critically-ill woman...

  Live from Ebbets Field Vol 1 - anyone have it?   well, I could be in better medical condition, but I have a dear friend in Europe who's much worse off.  I'm trying to put together a small gift containing a few things that are of strong sentimental value from 70's days in Denver and...

  hello all,   a dear friend of mine has just relocated to Wellington. as is often the case on arrival, little of life's "infrastructure" is in place. she is dealing with some challenging medical issues. wondering if any of you can, from personal experience, provide suggestions /...

  "Are these really reviews or just an endless noise of opinions—and is there a difference?"     ---   nice thought piece by Steven Wilson on the evolution of music "reviewing" as impacted by broad internet publication... much of it garbage attracting eyeballs, as it were.   only...

a question for those of you who have found good sources of mini-LP storage bags, etc.: can you recommend any sources of blank cardboard mini-LP sleeves? same question re purchasing good-quality cloth-like protective inner sleeves (not paper ones, but rather something similar to those used by...

wow. for some ungoldly, unknown reason, just a few moments ago when i hit the timestamp entering year 52 in this mortal coil, the track playing on my one server (PB15 > Fireface400 > DAC-1 > HD600s hence computer audio thread ) was a live version of "trains" from the new ROABP live release...

Kent Poon has just posted news extending his previous well-reasoned testing of iTunes wrt ripping and playback: Design w Sound » CAS 5: CD Ripping (well worth reading) which he now updates with testing info showing that iTunes 8.1.1.10 Windows version indeed appears to have a problem...

hello all, title says it pretty succinctly: looking to solve a small system integration issue requiring multiple installations of a reasonably good quality (and good value) headphone amp with balanced inputs (XLR connections preferred but TRS acceptable). Single-ended cans only, generally hi-Z...

HDCD playback -- grateful dead - Road Trips full show FLAC downloads - HDCD-mastered sources? it seems the dead.net strategy with the "Road Trips" CD releases is moving forward: looks like those CDs are being issued as a "teaser" for full-show downloads (or more precisely, the CDs were...

so there have been several threads on Head-Fi that in one way or another touch on options for HDCD decoding. Many of us unfortunately couldn't afford the USD 15,000.00 typical price for a used Pacific Microsonics Model 2 -- even if we could find one for sale (hint: rather rare). A Berkeley Alpha...

have been looking recently at adding some "in the cloud" online encrypted storage to my backup plan (on-site and off-site hard drives, incl in bank vault), both for data and for the ever-increasing media collection (slowly ripping 20000-plus CDs, and doing lots of SACD digidrops). was...

recognizing the limitations of using an external hard drive with the USB input of Oppo players (FAT / FAT32 formatting; somewhat limited number of files recognized), I'm curious: can anyone share experiences using the Oppo USB input for playback of disk-based audio files? Specific interest here...

A friend has become rather enthralled with versions / masterings of certain works she has heard on several of my SACDs, and wants to add SACD playback capability to her system. Her budget is en moment however rather limited, so no emm, Esoteric, or Cary.... Looking for opinions regarding SACD...

(a priori -- i have no association with weiss engineering other than knowing Daniel for many years since I worked at Studer CH in the 80s) head-fiers who follow pro equipment will certainly know of the well-regarded mastering equipment and converters from Daniel Weiss (Weiss Engineering...

hi all, I'm interested in suggestions leveraging the broad and deep knowledge base of you, the assembled multitudes, on addressing a rather trivial (I thought) issue: how to cost-effectively get 2 channels of 24/192 in/out of some PowerBook / MacBook Pro firewire ports.... for various system...