Could anybody please help me with the recording setting for a research project in acoustic phonetics?   I was collecting some pilot speech data for pitch and intensity analysis on Praat, but something seemed to have gone wrong with the equipment configuration. I was using Sony ECM55B...

Great pics...great thread! Is this by any chance also the longest head-fi thread? (2345 posts)

Quote:   How many more are there, i wonder...  

http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/502852/audio-novice-100-150-budget-advice-also-needed

Quote: The opposite of cold sound. See this post http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/220770/describing-sound-a-glossary  

Quote: nice play of words. lol  

Quote: Glad to know they turned out authentic. I got my pair boxed from an Amazon UK seller last year for a bit more than that.   Just out of curiosity. Did yours come in original box or just plastic bag?  

^ I would worry about the packaging. The cable also looks suspicious. And the price... too low to be genuine

^ Please note that the Apple In Ear reviewed in that post refers to the 2nd generation with microphone and remote control. It has two drivers in each earpiece and hence called ADDIEM (Apple dual driver in ear monitor) on head-fi. That actually is not a bad product at all. It is a clean...

^ They did that for a while I remember but I didn't research much on them. Were they any good?

Audio-Technica CK32 (if I remember the model right, and strictly canalphones are not IEMs, I know). Mediocre build quality and weak sound (in almost all respects). But that was my first attempt at higher quality phones. They did burn-in after extended listening and improved a little bit. They...

Since Sennheiser is a sponsor of headfi, let's hope opinions here on the forums will be heard and fed back to their reserarch dept.

The current lower end Shure line does not seem to receive much love here. Well within your budge there is radiopag custom tuned http://radiopaqproducts.com/custom_tuned.htm I haven't heard them myself so can't really recommend, but remember seeing some nice things said about them on head-fi...

For your entertainment...  

Quote: Someone will sonner or later find a way to recable these. But IMHO I cannot see the inline volume control doing any harm. It can simply be left alone at the max level. I might start a new thread: why is there so much hate of volume control.  

The Audio-Technica ATH-ES7 hasn't got much colour, but most head-fi'ers would agree that it's got style, and they're good sounding headphones.   So it's all about the question if stainless steel (you have choice of black or white) is your cup of tea.   P.S. information is from this side...

Haven't had experience with the super.fi 4, but good foam tips like Complys shouldn't fall out easily. My experience with long transport is that isolation and comfort is the key. I've never had issues with IEMs falling out of my ears, perhaps because I have rather small ear canals. If you remain...

They're very different beasts, aren't they? The Marshmallows, being canalphones, will offer some isolation, while the MX760 cannot as earbuds.   Marshmallows sound fun, though some find the sound cheap. The Sennheiser buds, IMHO, do not sound like lower quality at all. They are quite refined...

Here's the link   http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/9783657/Ultimate-Ears-SuperFi-4-Noise-Isolating-Headphones/Product.html   Sounds like a bargain. Grab one while you can, though I cannot persuade myself to get another pair of IEMs.

Looking at the thread title, I thought it meant something like this     lol

I have found the iBuds that came with 3rd gen Shuffle an improvement over the old 2nd gen iBuds that shipped with the iPods before the birth of Classic. However, they fail to handle some orchestral pieces well, for example, lows on the strings are sometimes muffled.   I really like the sound...

Wow, thanks faileas. that's some thorough research!

If I were you I would rip all CDs in apple lossless to be stored in hard drive, and then either   (1) copy to iPod in 320kbps   or   (2) copy albums that fit your current/recent mood to your iPod in lossless (surely you don't always want to carry all 300 albums on the go?)

Does anybody know what chips these are? They're inside a cheap USB sound card. Are they any good?

Observation: pads on full-size cans are in contact with the legs of the spectacles frames.   Theory 1: round pads are less likely to be in contact with the legs of spectacles and therefore less likely to cause the discomfort (A700s and ESW9s both have round pads right?) Theory 2: the...