edit: added third option   Ultrasone plans to sell their new balanced Pro 2900 at $800, or $250 more than the $550 single-ended Pro 2900. In my view, that is an exorbitant amount of money, and the cable is not even anything special, probably just double the same type of cable in the stock...

I would like an explanation from Ultrasone for why there is such a huge price increase. I believe this is an exorbitant amount of money just for another hole, another cable, and another connector. If I do not see a significant price decrease, or else a good explanation for the cost, I WILL be...

Something that I've wanted to find out since I got into this hobby is the question of how much I'd have to upgrade before I was satisfied. So my enjoyment of this hobby was twofold, first to meet my personal requirement in audio gear of bringing liveliness and vividness to my albums, and...

My sister wants an iem for jogging and reading, I am not sure what she likes (she says "balanced sound") so I want something that is forgiving and easy to EQ to her taste, she mostly listens to random radio and pop music from different countries. I want to give her a 5th gen ipod video so if...

I need advice on a few things. Right now my pro 900 are balanced and have its 4 internal wires soldered to the headphone cable. I am going to replace the internal wiring (I just took apart the headphones and it seems possible to replace) with 18 awg mundorf solid core wires and connect it to a...

cMP is supposed to buffer all the music in RAM so that it has less jitter. cPlay is supposed to be a very low jitter ASIO media player and works with cMP (you can use cMP with any other audio player, see Chapter 12 of cMP guide in website linked below). Both are open-source so both are free but...

What songs would they be? HFI-2200 = La Luna by Belinda Carlisle. Forceful, emotional and somewhat sad. B&O A8 = Walk Away by Lara Fabian. Cold detail gets the point across. iCans = If by Marianna Leporace. Expanding instruments and voices at cost of detail.

edit: they removed the $599 audio rack from the special offers page, most offers are between 30-50% now. I hope this falls under the category of accessories, I feel bad keeping this to myself and want to share it. The website says no free shipping when you buy discounted items, but when I...

I can't be held responsible for any damage caused by this guide, I am dumb, neither can this forum be held responsible, so use your common sense with this guide. Isanggon (of Rockbox) is the first person to report successful use of the Toshiba 1.8" HDD1808 mk8025gal in the H120, so big thanks to...

It just occurred to me, low-fidelity should've been around since Thomas Edison made the phonograph, and considering people learn by imitation, how much could bad sound reproduction have altered human language in the past 140ish years? Typical sound reproduction (ie, television) is pretty far...

I've had this cable for two months and since then I've been testing it on the HFI-2200 and Pro 900. The cable compared to stock gives a full/warm/smooth sound, greatly improved soundstage, and incredible bass detail. The sound signature is not for people who need more highs or speed, but for...

Edit, October 1st, 2009: I deleted a complaint, guess no point for it to stay up I think I made my point and I hope things are better now, I appreciate the advice given in later posts on this thread, good info. Edit, June 26th, 2009: This is probably my last edit to this review because...

I recently got Ultrasone iCans, and these things leak more noise outside than into my ears. Can you guys suggest what kind of material I can use to make these iCans look like earmuffs and offer the same degree of isolation? I am also looking into soundproofing hoodies if anyone knows a good...

edit: deleting lots of useless stuff and redoing it. Thanks Tyler_RMC for informing us that he checked with Ultrasone for an ETA on 4/06/09 and they responded to him an ETA around June. BUT there has been no official ETA so it may be later than June. zino02 is accessible but as of 4/08/9...

Something I noticed in my various setup experiments is that nothing makes music sound as unnaturally hyperactive as using DirectSound on the PC. Whether I'm using my on-board Realtek HD Audio or HT Omega Halo soundcard or audio-gd Compass dac/amp, DS (in contrast to KS/ASIO/WASAPI) has the same...

I have a soundcard that can output 192khz digital and a dac/amp that can receive 96khz. I was trying to set it up and had 192khz going into my 96khz dac/amp input for about 5 minutes while trying to get it to work until I figured out it could only take 96khz. When I tried moving the volume knob...

The detachable cable on the pro series and hfi-2200 makes switching cables easy, but what's the point when the cables are just different lengths and coiled/straight, and if someone wants to make custom detachable cables he has to find a custom threaded mini plug? I think the fact that the cable...

Sorry for the noob question, but I would like to know if there's a difference between the digital output on different portable players? I'm buying my first headphone amp/dac and am now considering the iRiver H120 mp3 player. The dac has USB, coaxial, optical and RCA input, would the H120 digital...