i am also open to other headphones

I am looking to buy a headphone in the ~150 range, shipped.  the options i am looking at so far are - shure SE215 - westone 1 ???   I like the formfactor of the two (over-ear style).    help me pick. looking to get these within a day or two.

You can wrap the very ends in a little teflon tape, heatshrink over that, then heatshrink over the joint. It works well for me.    Alternately, using the spare outer casing from a connector works too, just heatshrink over the whole thing.

HPA: Does the Balanced Squarewave XL use the same PSU as the regular one ?

Can we have more than 15 posts per page ? It takes forever to do anything with so few posts per page, since you have to click next so often. It also inturrupts your train of thought if you're reading through a huge thread.    40 posts per page would be great.

there's a tiny little text link under the title that is "last post"

Hey Jude, can we please please please please please have more than 15 posts per page on this new thing ? It's kinda ridiculous to have to scroll through hundreds of thousands of pages of posts, inturrupting your train of thought and what not.

singlepower kinda did, if you like orange peel.

I don't think your capacitors are big enough.

Quote: Originally Posted by MrRoderick And you found a discernible SQ difference after recabling the D2000? ..the frayed cable is already fairly annoying. Quite a big difference. I compared a stock pair with my recabled pair, and i could hear it every single time.

D5000 and D7000 uses a different and completely acceptable cable. Only the D2000 and below are affected.

I recabled my D2000 when I had them, and it made a big difference. I don't even believe in cables, but the denon cable was just that terrible. It's also very, very easy to recable. I see no reason not to recable a denon.

Quote: Originally Posted by Koyaan I. Sqatsi But yeah, it's just so small it's laughable. that's what she said is it even possible to solder wire >28awg to it if you deform the cups ? do you have a closeup of the cups ?

superglue might be better for something like this. the super thin liquid kind, squirt out a tiny bit onto a plastic lid like the kind you get from a bottle cap, and use a toothpick to apply a tiny drop of that to the broken off jack, and it should do perfectly.

he was making a valid point.

quick suggestion psd available if you really, really gotta have it. other suggestions: -blue is overdone. -spiked feet -consider using only 4 pin and t-r-s connectors and skipping the 2x3 altogether

Epoxy will work very well as well. Of course, test the cable before heatshrinking and gluing and such..

just wondering, what's the point of having all those holes on the side of the board?

Quote: Originally Posted by FallenAngel John E Woven : Just curious - how can you be sure it's 272BX and not another in the same line? Luvdunhill : ooh, what did you write? Just poking around on google and came across this...

looks like a hammond 272bx

that won't work. The actual jack part is 'pushed' to the front by the strain relief. not using it would just have the actual jack part just fall into the plug enclosure.

That part is a strain relief, and also holds the cable very securely in case the cable the cable is pulled (like if someone tripped over a cable). Even with the cutting, these plugs are some of the more durable plugs I've used. If you insist though, I've had good luck with the Vampire wire...

the third piece from the left has has the part to grip the cable; the little notches are a bit much though, so try sanding off those little claw bits. the pressure should still keep it in place. The profile of each of the three protrusions looks like the top part; file off or cut off part of...

build a sigma11/22 for it and use a stepped attenuator / good 4 gang pot ?

every time I put in the SE530, it amazes me. These are some of the best earphones I've ever heard, and some of the most comfortable. Yes, the Triple.Fi10 does have slightly better sound quality (more extended highs, slightly clearer), but it doesn't sound as natural as the SE530.