Quote: Originally Posted by Greenboughs I don't understand. Are Cmoy's built or purchased? That looks nice, in the altoids box. They're purchased from builders who hand build them.

That really sucks as it was looking great and in my price range. I'll have to keep an eye on the for sale forum. I was also considering a gilmore lite, but at $90 more I thought it'd be worth trying a tube based amp for once.

I'm not completely happy with my HS classic and 501 combo I want more of a warm lush sound. The Woo 1 would seem to fit the bill thanks to gsferrari's excelent review. It's lush warmer sound could be what the 501's asked for in terms of adding some bass impact. Also at the $390 price it fits...

The K501's are great for jazz, but I think your amp may be the weak link in the chain with these. They take alot of juice and I don't know if your amp can properly drive them to give them the 'umph' particularly in the bass region.

I think with open headphones it'd drownd out the sound. You'll never get the body shaking bass feeling that you get from a home theatre sadly. You could try something like the 'bass shakers' I don't know how well they work though I'm sure you could find something on head-fi about them.

Quote: Originally Posted by fmplautus I agree with all Smurf wrote above EXCEPT that Akg K501s don't rock. For me they rock hard because they are right in the bass and very tuneful, and everything is clean, clean, clean. They rock with classical music is what I meant not with rock...

Because you listen mainly to rock/pop music I'd reccomend the grados. The K501's really can't rock at all. I own the K501 and a Headsave Classic and they just don't have the in your face slam that lends to a good rock headphone. Of course modern recordings don't help. Some of my favourite...

Quote: Originally Posted by mls64 What kind of wire did you use? (I have a set of 501s on the way via UPS...) He used 22awg silver plated copper IIRC. It says something like that in the thread he linked to where he shows them.

I sent you a PM inquiring about having you rewire my K501s. How much bass is added exactly?

With your music tastes I'd actually reccomdend the Headsave classic with some AKG K501's they do jazz, classical, and acoustic guitar beautifuly (I own the combo).

A headsave homevibe could do the trick, they're about $85. If you don't have that much you could get a go-vibe. www.headsave.com

The classic is a great amp (I have one myself). For its price it's one of the best proformers out there.

Quote: Originally Posted by kiwirugby Smurf, Doesn't EQ really make those can really extend and amplify the bass?.....and what a clean, immediate sound! I am so impressed with the 501s when properly amped and EQed. They are quite amazing for the price. Yeah, I'm still...

They'd probably benifit alot more from a more powerful amp and/or source I don't know if the PCII has enough juice let alone the airhead to drive them to their fullest.

Bill Ward Yeah I've been playing bass heavy music such as those maximum boom for your system CDs and there's more then enough bass. kiwirugby I agree whole heartedly they just keep getting better and better! I am using some slight EQ in foobar just to give the lower end a tad extra umph...

Back Story I got some shure E3's last year/early this year. Shure (get it ha ha ha) they're great for portable use, but they just lacked that 'something'. After many hours of searching later this year I found the K501's at first I was turned off by their looks, but as time went on I realized...

I should have mine here by next Wed., but probably next Monday or Tuesday. I'm so excited to try it out with my AKG K501's!

Help! My K501's left driver stopped working after setting them down for a few minutes to help my sister. When I came back the left driver wasn't working. I thought perhaps it was something to do with my chaintech so I promptly ran upstairs and hooked it into my receiver but to no avail! If I...

First off the chaintech is great for music, but not for your games. It doesn't have the EAX support that your audigy does. I'd reccomend having both in your system possibly then using one for music and one for gaming.

Quote: Originally Posted by comabereni Do we get to call this one the "Warthog"? Let me guess--Singlepowers are the tanks... does Ray work on military aircraft panels or something? -coma P.S. <kidding about the "tanks"> I think it looks more like a puma.

You won't be able to get a classic till next year. As far as I know he stopped taking orders as of a few days ago. It should be more than enough to drive the HD555's.

Quote: Originally Posted by Lisa 221 grams No idea how much that in lbs. You want to know, you do the math 221 grams = 0.487221599 pounds Gotta love google .

I ordered mine on Monday, I'm glad to know that I got in on the last few orders. He said he'd try to ship it out by week end, but he's extremely busy (I didn't get a conformation e-mail stating it was shipped) so I'm guessing it'll go out sometime before wed. next week. I'm itching for the...

Most people use bannana hangers from a store like linens and things or the like.

The AKG K501's aren't the prettiest thing on the block, but I ordered them anyway.