I'll start this shindig off.  Sorry if I'm a bit poignent. :P   We had a very nice small meet at Whetstone Audio this afternoon.  I know I had a good time, and it seemed like everyone else did as well.  A list of some of the equipment is in the main thread...

So I'm going to use the great amount of knowledge and experience of head-fi to help me pick out a new amp/dac primarily for my HF-1s, secondarily for my ER-4Ps.  :)   I'm currently using a total bithead which I find a bit bright with the HF-1 and Ety ER-4S.  My fubar and mintish amp are at...

So I've owned these phones since they came out and just never found myself listening to them much. I used the MS-1s at work and the Ety ER-4P + KSC35 portable but never seemed to listen to the full-sized HF-1s at home... usually speakers or the portable setup somewhere. I decided to buy...

So I bought a new car about a week ago and it's my first manual transmission car. I've driven a number of them in the past, but I probably only had a total of 20 hours in them prior to buying one. This car has a 6-speed manual and a fairly stiff sticky clutch. I'm having some issues keeping...

Just in case there are people here that don't frequent the rockbox forums I'd have to say the new builds of Rockbox for the iRiver series (mainly the H3xx series) is extremely nice. They just put a patch into their CVS tree that greatly improves battery life, it's actually even a little...

I'm looking for something to use at work to replace the awful built in sound card of an IBM laptop, or an HP workstation. I don't want to spend more than about $50 so I'm looking for something passable as decent. The KSC-75 of USB soundcards if you will. Anyway, it will be used almost...

So about a month ago my new wife (Nov 05) and I bought our first house together and I had to mow my own lawn for the first time last week. I just want to say that mowing your own lawn wearing a nice set of IEMs isn't so bad... quite enjoyable in fact. The ER-4 block out enough noise where...

I just wanted to give a little out to the Fubar II USB DAC I received yesterday. My wife bought it for me for Christmas (a little late... wasn't purchased until 12/19). Plugged the little guy into my Linux box and then into my T-Amp which has a pair of Tannoy Fusion 2 bookshelves on it...

I'm looking for a DAC that I can use both on a laptop with USB and also a CDP with S/PDIF (optical or coaxial). I know the the Headroom MicroDAC fits the bill, but I'm looking for other options maybe even a little cheaper if possible. It's not that I don't like the MicroDAC it's just that I want...

I have an amp I built a little while ago and I just got some parts to try it with some other opamps. It started out with an OPA2132 that has been in it since I built it. I threw in an AD8620 and it worked fine, chip got a little warm as expected but not hot. Then I tried to put an AD8066 in the...

Sitting here drinking a Fat Tire listening to some stuff, Norah Jones, Broken Social Scene, Chris Thile on my brand new HF-1s coming out of my DIY amp which currently has an OPA2132 and stacked BUF634s with a Sony DVP-NS775V DVD/SACD/CD player and I'm wondering how it could possibly get that...

So I have this amp I built about a year ago and it currently has an opa2132 DIP in it with dual stacked buf637s. I have an SOIC OPA8260 that I could get an adapter for, but I was wondering if there are any new dual channel DIP opamps out there that would sound nice with the HF-1s primarily...

I just couldn't help myself. Hopefully it sounds good with my Tannoy Fusion 2s. I am yet to know why I did this as it only has one stereo input and I have 4 components connected to the receiver currently powering those speakers. If it sounds as good as everyone claims, I may be doing some mods...

Can't say I'm a fan of hers or anything but I'm currently watching TV and they keep advertising one of her CDs and she's wearing what looks like a pair of RS-1s or RS-2s. Definitely some kind of woody Grado...

So my girlfriend bought me a pair of ER-4P for christmas (or for the "holidays") and she gave them to me today since they came in and I knew what I was getting... not to mention we're flying out of town and there's no better time to test them out then a plane ride. After listening to them...

First off I love my Er-6s. But with that said I need to buy some replacement tips for them... and why do that when for a couple hundred dollars more I can buy some new canalphones. I haven't completely decided if I want to spend the money to get some new ones or not but I'm going to give the...

I need to get some more replacement tips for my, now one year old, ER6s so I e-mail Etymotic and asked if they planned on making the ER6i tips for the ER6s. They responded saying that the ER4-14 tips fit the ER6's they're just really tight, then offered to send a sample. I was just wondering...

I built a mint style amp on a proto board with stacked buffers, being run from a DIY +12v -12v power supply and I noticed that the buffers get pretty hot even without anything plugged in. By pretty hot I can hold my finger on it for about 15 seconds or so. I've used the amp quite a bit and just...

I accidently ordered a 400v cap instead of a 50v cap to use as my input cap. So it's A) huge and B) higher voltage than needed. It'll fit without a problem in the case I'm using, but will it make a difference in sound quality? If not I won't worry about it, but if it will I suppose I'll try...

umm, I'm curious. I essentially built the power supply on this page http://home.planet.nl/~heuve345/elec.../lesson16.html (lesson 16.2) without the two capacitors after the regulators. It seems to work ok, output is +12V and -12V on the nose, however the transformer gets really hot really fast...

I ask this for a couple of reasons... the main two being the search function is non-existant, and I work at a retail store so I get a significant discount on the entire monster cable lineup. Are they all that bad? I'm looking for a good cable in the "cheap" $50 ish level... with a discount I...

I have an alps 100K pot laying around that I'd like to use with the "mint" style amp I'm building. When I use this pot with my alessandro MS-1's it gets loud very fast and doesn't have a "background" volume level... ie still able to hold conversations with people... The gain of the amp is 4.1...

I've breadboarded both amps and liked them both... I just can't decide which one I want to build. They will be primarily used with my MS-1's in my home, but they may be used for some other phones as well, 7506's, er-6's, and various other phones. It will plug into a Sony 5disc cd-changer and/or...

I've been playing around with different setups for a headphone amp based on different designs I've seen online (cmoy, a47) and one my dad threw together (sort of a cmoy with a much better power source and different resistor values) and am just trying to figure a few things out. The first amp I...

Well after reading many a thread about the grado pad assortment I decided to order a pair of flats, along with a set of ER-20 earplugs for concerts. Were the flats worth the $30... I'd say yes. I was expecting them to do just about what they did. Make the MS-1's a little more "thumpy". They...