Something I have noticed lately, that the R5 will randomly produce some static noise for the first couple of seconds of any given track. It doesn’t seem to do it with full albums I don’t think, but when it switches over to “live radio” mode if you want to call it that. Or it will do it sometimes...

I haven't been on here in ages, but I'm back, and now playing around with IEM's. And speaking of IEM's... My first pair were short-lived. All of 10 to 15 minutes... Listening for a few minutes and deciding that I need to move up from the medium ear tips (that came on them) to the large ear...

I've been searching around for information on this, and haven't quite found anything useful yet. Anywho, one of my brothers gave me a NIB Asus Chromebox PC and I would love to use it with a Schiit Modi or even my well broken-in Bifrost (temporarily) on my headphone rig in the bedroom. Right...

I decided to pull out my old Audio Technica ATH-A700's today. I haven't used them in a while since the ear pads started flaking which was also around the time I got the Mad Dogs. Anyway, I've been reading various threads and reviews about the A700's and all people do is complain about them; no...

So for the past year or more, I've been streaming music to my Sansui G7000 receiver via JRemote on my old original iPad through the headphone output. It sounds good, but I know I can do better. I've been doing a little reading and know that with an iPhone 4 or higher or iPad 2 or higher with iOS...

I recently purchased and received a new pair of Mr Speakers Mad Dogs with all the options as well as a new FiiO E11 amp with extra battery and charger. After putting a full charge on the stock battery via USB, I've gotten a total of roughly 9 hours out of it. That's with the amp set to "High...

I didn't know where to post this exactly as it's about upgrading my headphones and amp...     I haven't been on here in quite some time, but have recently gotten back into headphone listening and am considering doing some upgrades, but want to see which upgrade path to take.   By...

It's been quite a while since I've been on here.   Anyway, we're about to move and I just happened to find my old Little Dot Micro+ that I packed away some 4-5 years ago. Just for the heck of it, I turned the knob and sure enough, it fired right up! For the past four nights, I've been...

I've just changed the output caps in my 708B amp from a pair of Mundorf 100+100uF - 450V caps to a pair of Samwha 1500uF - 385V ones. Would putting a bleeder resistor across these caps alter the sound at all? The reason I ask is because there's a lot of stored energy sitting there, and I...

Just to start off, I already tried the search and the results were not what I was expecting. I was hoping to avoid creating a new thread for this, but here it is anyway... As some of you may or may not know, I have a Xiang Sheng 708B tube amp that I have been modifying extensively. With the...

I'm trying to locate a schematic for this player and no one seems to have one, even Roy Hall or Underwood HiFi. Can anybody help me out here? Thanks in advance!

Here are the three amps in question... Modded 708B (Mundorf 100+100uF x 2 output caps; Hovland 0.22uF x 2 coupling caps; ALPS 100k Blue Velvet) BONE Stock Little Dot II ++ BONE Stock Little Dot Micro + My AKG K701 cans with 650+ hours (probably more) and counting And the entire...

I just found these today after doing a little cleaning up around the house. Honestly, I thought that these were long gone years ago, but apparently not. The "box" must still be around somewhere also. I'll have to look for it one of these days. My father bought these cans years and years ago...

I've had this amp going on 2 weeks now (10 days to be precise), and it's still running strong off of the original charge that the previous owner put on it in Texas before shipping it to me. At 5 hours per day after work, plus a few times that I left it on over night, and once for 36 hours...

Mini Review #1: I just got my brand spankin' new 701's in the mail. I've had them playing for 35 minutes so far. With my simple system, they do not show any signs of being bright like some people claim. In fact, they are rather laid back sounding at the moment which surprises me. Everyone says...

It sucks! No really, it does! I was at work this morning when I got a phone call on my cell from my brother telling me that a message was left on the answering machine from Western Union. They were trying to verify the account and such for $318 through my Visa bank check card. So...

I'm still in the dark as far as what cans I should go for. From Senn, I've had the HD545, HD580 and HD600 (in that order). I've had the pleasure of using a pair of 1st gen Beyer DT880's for a little over 3 weeks. This is all from about 3 years ago! So my memory of these cans and their sound has...

I've been on the Acoustic Sounds, Inc site for the past half hour or so. I'm wanting to expand my CD collection. I'm not a whole lot into multi-channel recordings, not to mention they're useless through cans anyway. So like I was saying, I'm looking through their site and see all of these...

Just thought I'd post a thread of my freshly repadded 7506's. The threads that I've seen before didn't offer much in the way of decent pictures, so I figured why not post up some. So here they are! BTW, I have noted a bit of an increase in bass output with these new pads installed. I'm...

Kind of an odd question I suppose, but I'd like some input regardless if at all possible. A couple of years back, (shortly after I joined here) I got out of headphones. I guess they just weren't for me back then. I had Senn HD545, HD580 and HD600's powered by a HeadRoom Cosmic. I eventually...

Just for the heck of it, I want to see how many people here on Head-Fi think that cables sound different or if it's "all just in your head." Please feel free to make any comments, but please don't forget to take the pole!

All day tomorrow I will be doing listening tests and comparisons between not only the new Beyerdynamic DT880 and Sennheiser HD600, but also the older HeadRoom Cosmic and new HeadRoom Cosmic Reference. The HeadRoom Total Airhead might get a small tid-bit in there somewhere too. I am very...

What do all of you think about the Sennheiser HD445 headphones? Does anyone own them? Or has anyone ever heard them? Also, are the cables the same as those on the HD580 and HD600? They kind of look like it. I was just wondering.

My brother has bought most of Madanna's albums over the years which haven't been that bad. However, these last two albums of her's, "Music" and "American Life" absolutely suck! The music itself is mostly bad, but the recording quality really stinks. Everything is real shrilly, thin, and most...

This may seem like a silly thread, (and the fact that I'm getting the HeadRoom Cosmic next week), is almost useless. But anyway, I'm sitting here listening to my HD580's through this DSP 360 of mine and can't believe how good it actually sounds. I'm using my old and faithfull Onkyo DX-C320...