Quote: Originally Posted by fetalgoat Be careful with wen audio. The say they sell pairs but in reality you're only buying one tube. If you buy two pairs of tubes they will only send you two tubes rather than 4 tubes. Paypal won't cover your losses either. I bought 4 M8100s from...

Quote: Originally Posted by ludoo They don't seem that big... Are you saying that because they don't fold, or because they tend to strangle you if you wear them around your neck? It's true that they aren't really that portable, mostly because of the typical AKG self-adjusting...

Quote: Originally Posted by Pete7 So what is exactly shocking about audiophiles not being able to tell the difference between coat hangars and Monster cables? This says something more about the quality of Monster cables rather than about cables in general. I have to agree with...

Quote: Originally Posted by russman Thank you godkin, shellylh, zodduska. Seems like these tubes are hard to find.. i manage to find a store in taiwan that sells these mullards, but they have two version.. so i dont know are these good ones or clones? Seems like they have plenty of...

Quote: Originally Posted by Godkin Good combo, Russman. Look also for the CV4010s - they are the military version of the M8100s. Isn't the M8100 the military version of the CV4010?

Well at the moment I'm satisfied with FF, and I think quite soon we will have Firefox 3 and I heard that it will be the fastest (or one of the fastest) browser available. I've tried the beta but then I couldn't get flash to work so I just use the stable version now.

So far I like Ubuntu very much. When installing compiz fusion I thought that I'm going to have a problem with dependencies or something like it happen sometimes in fedora but all the packages were installed perfectly. The only problem I had so far was that I had no sound from the flash player...

Wow great wallpaper and nice desktop overall. For my desktop I use Compiz-Fusion and Avant Window Navigator and I use this theme.

Thanks for the explanation tomb, I think I understand my amplifier a bit better now

Quote: Originally Posted by nibiyabi OTHER, i.e., I don't eat hot dogs. Ew. Give me a real sausage any day. x2 Were I live there aren't many hot dogs and apart from that I prefer real Austrian sausages (like a Bratwurst, a Burenwurst or something like that) with mustard and...

Quote: Originally Posted by lordmozilla i'm not saying it never works or crashes all the time, but i've seen big fedora crashes and there are some well known big bugs check that one out : Windows sidelined by Fedora bug - ZDNet UK but if you used redhat free version, most people...

Quote: Originally Posted by tomb The problem is that it's very seldom that an amp design is good at doing both. I think that the Darkvoice actually does a good job driving both headphones, it really has more than enough power and everything sounds very dynamic and well balanced...

Quote: Originally Posted by Patu I'm not sure if you told this earlier in this thread (sorry if I missed), but what equipment did you use for the audition? Which CD-player and amplifier? With K701 and HD650, those two will make huge differences. To be honest I can't remember what...

Quote: Originally Posted by goldenratiophi lol, I didn't get it until you explained it Yeah I also didn't get it in the first place..

I love skiing too (like most Austrians) but I don't have a large collection or anything. This would be overkill for me as I don't have time to go skiing that often. This year I tried out my uncles old Kästle 2.07 m long racing skis. Wow! What a difference! Normally I use much shorter Atomic...

Quote: Originally Posted by NiceCans ...after some initial break-in I have found them extremely comfortable for most of that time. I totally agree with you. The first weeks were quite hard and it was quite uncomfortable but then either the headband got softer or my head got used...

I like bass but I don't like too much bass because with headphones I won't "feel" the bass anyway so I think that's what speakers and subwoofers are for. It's true that most people that don't know anything about audio or what real music sounds like prefer a sound with big bass. I think this is...

Great CD player Asr, looks great and it seems like you're really enjoying it! I really like that metal faceplate with the round corners. Very cool design. Don't like the name though .. I had to translate too much of Plinius' stuff lately in latin class at school

That's a cool commercial, I would like to see it on TV here in Austria but I guess our TV channels are just too lame for that

Normally I prefer real guitar but this guy is really good (he's a bit strange though) and that's a great song. I got to look at the other videos too.

You're right the K171 aren't really efficient but I don't think that there is such a thing as "real impedance", they have 55 Ω (like all the other studio AKGs too) and that's it. The K240 are open and if I'm right you're looking for closed cans so maybe the K271, the closed version of that...

About the K518: I think that for the price, these headphones are actually sound quite good but I can't agree with marvelusjd about the isolation. For example IEMs or other closed phones (in my case it's the K171) have better isolation because the K518 actually has some pretty thin earpads that...

Quote: Originally Posted by Capunk Actually it's quite rare (beside above poster) to find K701 user to use DV332 to drive it, because DV332 much more suitable to HD650 than K701. 336i preferable to be paired with K701 because the amp produce more "tubey" sounding, and K701 will love it...

Have you had a look at this thread? Many tubes for the DV332 are discussed and compared there. Most of the tubes are quite cheap anyway so if money isn't your problem you could even get more than one type of tubes. I think for the power tubes there are only 2 possibilities: the Svetlana and...

This is gross. I don't like the idea of having something implanted into my eyeball. I think you should be happy that you're not blind and not mess around with your eyes when it's not necessary. @ Kirosia: I really hope that you were kidding...necrophilia is even worse than eyeball implants