Hi, Rdbogdan. Could I ask how much it cost you to upgrade the board in your amp to V2? I’m considering doing the same myself, if it’s not too prohibitively expensive. Thanks!

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I have the HE-400, HE-500, HE400i. All great, especially the HE-500. I'd love to hear what HiFiMan's state of the the art headphone handles the music.

Just use Adorama's search tool to look up Ifi iDSD and it will come up as the Mark II. There's no picture of the amp on the Adorama page, yet. But you can find a picture of the black edition online elsewhere. It sounds like a great update. But the price is the normal $549, so there's no deal...

I think you should change tack and name your headphone:   The ZMF Gran Turismo (GT)   This name describes a headphone that is both luxurious and rich, and which offers top notch listening performance.   This headphone transports you to a place of bliss, where the pleasure in the journey is...

Thanks so much for posting your impression between the two versions of the X2. Yes, I wish I would have received the WOOX version, too. It just seems like a more solid product. I wouldn't mind having everything just right, with properly removable pads and solid quality control. The Gibson...

Hi,   Is it safe to assume that the WOOX pair and the "good" Gibson pair exhibited the slight difference in sound? And the "bad" Gibson pair is the drastically different one?   You mention that you'd want a WOOX pair. Can you describe how the WOOX and the "good" Gibson compare to your ears...

Hi, John.   I also have all the cans you listed except the ath-m40x. Well, it's really hard to recommend a new set of cans because there's so much user preference involved. Something I like may not work for your ears or music at all.   Having said that, I also find the HiFiMan HE-500 to be...

Yes, thanks for the advice. I will certainly run the SineGen test to see if there's an issue. Especially relevant while the cans are still within the return period.

Well, third party sellers aren't so bad if they are under the Amazon Prime umbrella. You get the same return privileges as if you had purchased directly from Amazon. So I didn't know what to expect, having never owned an X2 and reading about all these issues. Well, I got a Gibson distributed...

I got my X2s a few weeks ago.   Got them fulfilled by Amazon, from a third party seller, with Prime shipping. So I guess that means they come from the Amazon warehouse just as if I had purchased them directly from Amazon?   I've been so busy I haven't opened them yet. And now I find out...

Reminds me of the time a family friend convinced me to change the clutch plate in my front wheel drive car instead of taking it in. It took us two full work days, and at the end we discovered a big beefy bolt that we somehow missed putting back in the car. LOL, the car seemed to run OK without...

LOL...I predict you will end up with both sooner or later. If you are looking for a portable amp, the E12DIY is a fantastic choice. It's even great as an all-arounder, for portable and home use. But if you like tubes and are looking for a home system, by all means, pursue tubes first. Both...

This combination has not been discussed much, but I find the combination of OPA627 + LME49600 to be just great. Well worth a listen. I find it to be on par with MUSES02 and MUSES01, but all in combination with the LME49600. These really euphonic and musical chips have a special synergy with...

Do you know if these cables are solid silver, or are they silver plated? I'm very tempted by the Latvian cables Chodi recommends. I have solid silver speaker cable runs for my hi-fi setup, as well as some silver interconnects, and have used silver hookup wire in some DIY projects. I do love the...

    Wow, K10U. Pretty awesome.   I can't afford to spend any more money on big purchases after the 846 myself, but if you can do it, it's pretty cool to play in the upper tiers.   I'm happy to listen to the 846 for a while as a sort of semi-endgame IEM. I promised myself that as they are...

  Wow, those do look nice.   It looks like they are useable on the UE900, too? If so, I am very temped to spring for these. Killing two birds with one stone.   I'm really looking forward to your impressions with more use, however. I hope they end up sounding as good as they look!

Hey, guys.   I'm sure this has been asked before, but how do you guys like the 846 compared to the Westone W40?   It's funny. I purchased the W40 very shortly after I got my 846. Why?   Because on first listen, the sound of the 846 just wasn't right. I won't go into details, but I was...

Yeah, crazy. I used to think anything approaching $1k was crazy for IEMs, but now models up to $4k decked out? Is that right, or am I imagining things? On a totally unrelated topic, those attenuation adapters - are they simply a resistor in series with the hot leg of the circuit? Or is there...

I'm starting to really like these now. I gave them 4 or 5 overnight burns with beat heavy club mix music and about 5 or 6 hours of actual listening time. Whatever the mechanism (burn-in, brain burn-in, or a mix of the two), the sound has gelled. They are much more transparent and coherent than...

OK....OK.... What was the best price during the last drop, btw? And those free buds...are they any good? Luckily I live in one of the states where free buds are legal.

The trick is to be so genuinely confident or comfortable with your life that you don't give a hoot about what anybody else thinks. Or so hopeless that you don't give a s**t. I have the XBA-H3 and don't worry at all about wearing them out. I don't mind if people stare. I actually find that...

OK, anyone know why these are called Spiral Dots? The picture on the box shows some kind of dotted silicone surface, but I didn't notice any sort of dots on mine. Unless they exist on the hidden inner part of the silicone olive. But then it is a strangely obtuse reference. Same question about...

Thanks for the insight. Does the 846 come with that impedance adapter? I will definitely give that a try. I snagged a set of those Westone silicone star tips from my Westone 3s. Yeah, so far I think the best I've tried (between the Shure foam and silicone olives and Westone stars). More...