I've been looking back to all the my headphones that have been damaged, or had to be repaired/replaced under warranty, and I was wondering if I just had some bad luck with headphones, or if others has the same troubles.   Let me start with my headphone breaks and replacements history:  ...

Keeping the title in line with the Crack OTL's thread.   Bottlehead is releasing a new headphone amplifier, "With Output Transformer". It's not as low-cost as the Crack, but since it has output transformers, it will make it far easier to drive all headphones.   Here's the link...

EDIT: nullstring has made a wiki page with this list here: http://www.head-fi.org/wiki/list-of-diy-headphone-amps   I just had a thought: we need a list of current do-it-yourself headphone amplifiers. So here it is. I'll be updating when someone alerts me to new amps or amps that I have...

*NOTE* I have not updated this list since August, but I am keeping it as an handy tool to compare prices. Deals are now posted as replies when they are found, so look at the end of this thread for the latest deals.   Since there were several requests for this, I am starting a thread for...

Edits 2012/03/21: Added new analyses 2012/03/20: Added Bottlehead Smack 2011/02/12: Added Speedball Crack with 5998A tube in audio analyses, modified the headphone analyses to add the new measures. 2011/02/11: EHHA vs Castanet with the Grado HF-2, audio analysis for the k601 and...

I've recently been waging a battle against upgraditis, and I have fortunately been losing it. With my most recent purchase, a pair of Shure SRH840, I have begun to think about how many headphones I am using at the moment and how they fit into diverse roles I have given them. I became curious to...

First off: that's "travel" not "travelling". Due to work I'm away from home for 1-2 month periods, but once I'm there, I usually stay put. I don't intend to use them on the plane.   I am shopping for a new pair of headphones to use off my laptop or my iPod. I'm currently using an ATH-ESW9...

Was doing a round of forums, and I fell on this, a new OTL headphone amp from Bottlehead. It looks tempting, and the price seems right at $200. http://www.bottlehead.com/store.php?...on=show_detail

To start, I'm going to point out that I am a new at this. I'll be building a Millett MiniMax soon, and a gamma y2 DAC afterwards when all the parts arrive. I'm going a bit ahead of myself, but I want a good phono stage or preamp for my turntable afterwards. I'm using a Soundsmith Aida cartridge...

My Shelter 501 II cartridge appears to have reached the end of its life: there are increasing amounts of noise coming out of the right channel. I'm trying to find out if Shelter is offering retipping services and, if so, the cost and how to contact them. Any help is appreciated.

I just updated to iTunes 7.7, and I noticed a major change when converting wav files to 256 VBR: the files are much smaller than they used to. I was used to seeing the file take rougly 2 MB per minute, now it's reduced to 1.2 MB per minute. I'm trying to find out if it's better compression...