Hi all,   As a preface, I've owned TF10s, Grado sr60, Alessandro MS1, and currently use Monster MD Tributes.  I've received the 2013 matte black Beats as a birthday gift, and I've enjoyed them for what they are - stylish, good comfort and decent sounding with hip hop (albeit annoying ANC...

saw this on FB   "Here at JHAudio, we LOVE the JH13-it's feeling a little left out these days.. so TODAY, May 13, from 12pm-4pm we will be offering the best promo ever! Use code: LOVE413 to purchase the JH13 for $899! (offer only available in the JHA Store.) JHAudio sales are random...

I'm just listening to Amorphis - Skyforger and it's a pretty refreshing listen! I'm really impressed. I haven't been paying much attention to releases these past couple of years, so any suggestions of your favorites would be appreciated whether it be doom, black, death, thrash etc. As long as...

"Hearing the difference now isn't the reason to encode to FLAC. FLAC uses lossless compression, while MP3 is 'lossy'. What this means is that for each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have SATA - it's about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due...

Just wondering with the boat loads of money that's thrown down around here, how many people have actually spent more money on music than they have on their audio equipment. I have way more invested in music at the moment since i try to pick up a new record every 2 weeks or so, but then again all...

I was listening to my Somethin' Else record last night and noticed some sibilance, i'm assuming, around the 2 minute mark of Autumn Leaves where Blakey starts hitting the high-hat. Im wondering if this is just indicative of the recording or due to my setup. If anyone else has this recording and...

I've read some promising things about the DT770 being matched with the headphone out of vintage marantz receivers, but not much on how the Dt880 acts with it. Is the headphone amp in my Marantz 2230 going to be able to drive the DT880 well? Or does the pair require a better headphone amp?

I listen to music pretty much only from my marantz2230 and infinity ss2002 bookshelves, but i'm looking to try out some cans. It'll save me some trouble of transporting speakers and stands down to my place at college too. Would prefer to use my Marantz 2230's headphone out. I tend to like the...

I have a marantz 2218, and i'm wondering if it'll be able to drive a Sennheiser hd-595/600 if i decide to get them without a separate headphone amp. thanks.

I'm new to the audiophile community and i'm trying to put together a real cheap, budget set up for my dorm room. I'm slowly buying stuff for it: some grado sr-60, kimber cables, Sony SCD CE595 I picked up a Marantz 2018 off ebay today. Since i'm getting into vinyl, I'm wondering if it's...