As I just saw the Audeze Mobius announcement, I wonder if anyone here has some inside information? All I have seen is that there is a new headphone arriving, and that they also possibly will have a "creators edition" / mastering suite in the same series.

I have now enjoyed the Audeze LCD-2 headphone for about one year. Apart from the sound, the constant tweaking of the headphones shows their dedication to perfection. The first image here shows one early pair, the second, one that was made a few months later.       Just to mention a...

With some people actually getting their hands on the Audeze LCD-2 planar magnetic headphone, I thought it's time for a thread of positive impressions only. No objectivity needed in here.   To my ears, it has an extremely natural and life-like presentation. It has a rather unique sound...

It's usually said that ambiophonics aren't going to work with headphones, but I'm not fully convinced yet. The idea of ambiophonics is to get a headphone-like sound, with a dramatic hall-like soundstage. It's achieved by using two speakers next to each other right in front of the listener, with...

I managed to clumsily trip over some cables in my crowded home office, and my Creative E-MU 0404 usb fell to the floor and got destroyed. When I bought it, it was the FOTM of the time. But now maybe there are better alternatives in the same price range? What do you people think? After I...

I managed to clumsily trip over some cables in my crowded home office, and my Creative E-MU 0404 usb fell to the floor and got destroyed. When I bought it, it was the FOTM of the time. But now maybe there are better alternatives in the same price range? What do you people think? After I...

There just has to be a thread dedicated to the fantastic sound of the old orthodynamic Peerles MB headphones, in particular the PMB-80. The key behind the fantastic clear and textured sound is the PMB 55mm orthodynamic driver (that was also available in smaller sizes). (here,with one...

I bought an old AKG240 Monitor (with gold color plates on the sides) at a junk items store. There was nothing wrong about it, except for it's sound. Pads and elastics have seen better days, but the drivers appear ok. Except that the sound is completely un-natural. There appears to be good...

These old studio headphones lack information of who made them, apparently they were just branded BBC. Does anyone know who made them? (And is it safe to connect them to an headphone amp without serious damage to headphone or ears?)

This defunct Sennheiser headset was salvaged from the garbage bin (and imminent destruction) at the old premises of BBC Glasgow, Queen Margaret Drive when they moved to the new glass palace. These are intended to be used in a brand new studio. Does anyone know how good the microphone is? As...

Audeze have sold out their first run of the LCD-1 so it's about time we get an idea about how many of these new planar magnetic cans ended up on head-fi-heads. So did anyone else get one?

Opening the bag, http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/351...elcd1inbag.jpg I find an normal-looking headphone, with an open back and soft velvet-finished ear pads. No fancy space-age plastic. No strange materials, except for the thick somewhat bulky mogami cable. I plug it into my Musical...

I've just bought a pair of very cheap Pioneer SE-205 headphones, late 70s. The plan is to use the nice pads, or the entire thing as a foster phone. The SE-205 is part of a very nice looking headphone series, and this one is in good condition. Unfortunately, it's sound is poor from the E-MU...

I just bought a vintage Toshiba HR-X1 complementary back electret headphone. (although it doesn't say complementary electret on it, that's supposedly what's there.) It's very light and comfortable. Although, the sound is light too. What's there sounds good at a first listen, but the lower...

While modding a few vintage cans with ruined earpads, I noticed the night-and-day difference the pads can make. I am amazed at the attention that $xxxx cables get, and the lack of attention $xx earpads get. Replacing or tweaking pads, the same can goes from bassy and no highs, to balanced bass...

On impulse, I've bought a Vintage NAD C160 preamplifier to use as a headphone amp. The model is from 1999, so it's not that old. It's got a nice alps volume control, and the serveral line level inputs can come in handy. (The current NAD model that has replaced this one is the NAD C165BEE, which...

My Dual DK 720 vintage orthodynamic headphone arrived today in a gigantic package from Germany. It arrived inside an ugly brown leather bag (yes, I know, you will want pictures of this bag...) The Dual was most likely an OEM headphone that was made by Peerrles MB, between 1977-1979. First...

There has been a lot of talk lately about how high-end headphones need high-end boxes. Now, I wonder, what boxes have caused this demand? (Low-end box pictures are also ok here) Go ahead and post pictures of your wooden boxes, spray-painted plastic boxes and so on!

Before (this is before i got some rips in the fragile pleather): With the new lambskind pads (and new foam) I don't like pleather. The lambskin is really something else. Pleather is not leather even if it wants to be. (especially not very old pleather). The old Pioneer pleather looks...

Not only do these headphones look weird, they also come from a company with a silly name, but in addition the principle is odd to say the least. If I get the idea correctly, the sound is not played from speakers in the cups, but inside the headband, connected to both ears through tubes. Did...

I have a Grundig headphone that badly needs new pads. I could make them myself, but first I want to know if there are great 70mm (outer diameter) pads to buy. Preferrably flat/thin, made of leather. But just about anything would be better than what's on now. Ideas?

Sennheiser USA - HD 680 - Product Details We cant be writing about the HD680 in two threads with the title HD800 now can we?

I've been strugglig with my cable mess. I find it really hard to keep the power cables going out from my amplifiers and stuff away from the audio cables. Sometimes the audio cables get real close to the wall outlet as well. (How) do you keep your cables apart? Does it matter or can I just let...

I have bob dylan SACD box, some with 5.1 sound. What are the best and also what are good 5.1 headphones to use to enjoy the sourround sound?

I went on a vaction (without headphones) for a few days. When I returned, I found the volume on my xcan (that no one had touched) to be far too loud. How come? I did nothing particular to my ears on my vacation. A few beers and a swim in the ocean should not make such a big difference?