I never realized btw how old the design of the present beyer cupholders is  

I just bought a yarland p100 from a fellow head-fi'er and am waiting for it to arrive. I've read all the yarland p100 threads and afaik the p100 comes with (chinese) el84 and 6n3 tubes. The tubes this yarland uses are the el84/6p14p/6bq5 and to my suprise the 12ax7. This is good news, since it...

This is probably a stupid question, but now that I finally made it to the exalted heights of the 1500-posts-Olympus at Head-Fi, I was expecting entrance to the headhoneus supremus forum. In my previous unenlightened state as a below-1500 poster, I took the notion seriously that there was such a...

As per request poll added. Tell us (ideal) type of headfi'er you are!   See http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/537612/headphone-addicts-typology for the typology.

Ever since I got to know Head-Fi, I've been fascinated by the many different types of headphone addicts (headdicts?). I've tried categorizing them in three broad and admittedly overly generalized types. See below. Recognize anything?   character and type a: the lyrical headdict b: the...

I can't upload any pictures with firefox. When I try I get an error message. When I switch to IE8, the pictures are uploaded without a problem. Am i the only one experiencing this or is this a wider, firefox-related issue? thanks for looking into this! I realize how busy you all must be in...

Is this just me or is anyone else having problems with the rss feeds? I'm using firefox and the feeds do not get updated at all. thanks for looking into it!

I have a pair of wharfedale id2 orthodynamic headphones which are truly difficult to drive. I stashed them in the downstairs cupboard, because my vintage sansui amp as wells as the modded philips cd player with dedidacted headphone section actually did a pretty good job of driving them (better...

I just finished putting together an old cupboard in one of the attic rooms (quite a challenge with a third of the screws missing) and just sat down to listen to something nice. I put on Lisa Ekdahl singing Salvador Poe compositions: Daybreak. Was listening through flac-zero dac-little dot 1+...

Having a predilection for vintage stuff, i was amazed and thrilled to see this add. has anyone ever seen them up close? they must have been extinct for quite a while now. you needed the balls of a shogun to actually wear these outside!  

To my surprise, there is no general thread about vintage beyer headphones yet! There is the awesome dt48 thread of course, but I think a general thread would not be superfluous and there is none as far as I know. To remedy this most unfortunate situation , let all of us vintage beyer gear owners...

Anyone who recognizes the headphones worn by Sophie Milman here? On other pictures taking during recording sessions she wears akg k240s.

Is there anyone with experience with a vintage dt880 (late 80s)? I just bought one and am waiting for it to be sent to me. I have a dt990 from the same period which is one of the best headphones I've ever heard and I am curious whether the dt880 from the same period is as good.

Not sure whether I should be posting this here, but I noticed that since a few days my post count can't seem to pass the 1,080 mark . Whenever I pass the mark, a few posts later I notice that I am back in the 1,070s again. Is this some kind of head-fi time travel loop thing or are there sinister...

Just curious to know what your best bang for buck purchase was. Not necessarily new headphones (we all know about the KSC35, PortaPros, K501 and HD580), but also secondhand or chance purchases: a stax lamba pro at a flee market for $10 or a sennheiser hd600 for $50. Because sometimes research...

I have been listening to an ad2000 for the last two weeks and I have completely fallen for its seductive, involving sound and the incredibly lush mids. For someone who thought he preferred analytical headphones this came as a bit of a surprise (a very pleasant surprise though). There are enough...

I've been using my Ultrasone HFI680s for a year now and I am very satisfied with them. They sound very good and they are sturdy. I lug them around everyday and they are still in perfect shape. I would like to have them recabled though. A good recable should significantly improve the sq (and...

A few months ago, there was a short thread (which I can’t seem to locate anymore...) about what headphones would be best for old mono recordings. Headphones that wouldn’t be too unforgiving and make it impossible to listen past the hisses, cracks, volume and speed variations and other noises...

I just got my first Jecklin Float in the mail . It’s a Model One, not the best out there, but in a recent Ebay auction I just came up short to win a Model Two. I’ve always wanted to try one and I am glad I could buy this one for a very reasonable sum. The foam and everything seems to be OK. It’s...

There is a lotta love at Head-Fi for the Pro(line) 750 (and some other sentiments as well ) and the HFI780 (whether recabled or stock), but the HFI680 seems to be completely unknown. The fact that the American Ultrasone distributor choose not to distribute the HFI680 is probably largely to blame...

I did some searches here to find out about Chinese headphones, but they didn't turn up much. At least no addresses where you can actually buy them if you're not based in China. I saw these gorgeous-looking Shenzhen Grandsun headphones, the GS800. Anybody know these? Do they sound as good as...

There seems to be a lot of love for the AKG K500 here on the forums, but it doesn’t have its own thread of appreciation yet and info is scattered all over different threads. Let’s start one here and sing the praises of the K500 . (Or not; appreciation is different from fanboy-dom after all)...

It’s one of those days. My wife and child are with my in-laws for the weekend and I should be finishing a paper, so I am stuck behind the computer. Which is OK, given that I just received some nice new music (World’s End Girlfriend, Japanese post rock ). So in between the writing I was switching...

For all you Sextett lovers: AKG K240 * Hochwertiger Kopfhörer K 240 - eBay, Kopfhörer, Audio Hi-Fi. (Eindtijd 27-jul-08 17:45:00 CEST) It is a Sextett, right? holes in the headband, silver rings on the cups. Doesn't look expensive, but then it does look in need of some TLC. Only for...

I have been spending some quality time with my newly arrived AKG K500’s, which I got for a very reasonable price on German Ebay. My old pair had (still have actually) a hole in one of the drivers… They don’t come up for sale very often, so I knew I had to grab it when I saw the Buy It Now option...