Quote: Their earlier album Tears of Mortal Solitude is fantastic as well.  But it is a bit more doom and bit less black if memory serves.   Quote:   I seriously love every Opeth album and they all get regular listening.  That said, Blackwater Park is far from my favorite.  

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Hehe I was planning on getting a ha-006+ but I come back to check around now that I'm ready to make a purchase and what do you know...after reading around threads for over 3 hours I end up ordering a matrix m-stage.  Typical head-fi.

Quote: Originally Posted by rantamplann I have HA-006+ with 5x gain and its enough for Hd600, AKG701, D5000 and Gs1000. 3x Will be better than 11x. Great, thanks. Think I will pull the trigger on this today soon (due to my relatively new credit card and it's terribly low limit)

I'm considering buying one of these to use primarily with my HD600 but I also have se530 IEMs I would like to use with it too. Will 3x gain be enough for the hd600 still or should I just get 11x gain.

Based on your list I would add the following, in addition to previous recs of course. Seventh Wonder (Prog, a must try if you like Dream Theater at all) Only one I can think of off the top of my head that hasn't already been mentioned, people in here know their stuff Also another...

Do I detect sarcasm or just gross over-exaggeration.

Yeah I know about using the up-arrow. My problem is that I like to organize my folder structure as artist/album/ and I like to slowly add to the card and I end up having to just guess which way will scroll me to the artist I want when I get a fair number of artists on it. For now I am organizing...

Problem resolved. Just formatted the internal storage and it was good to go again. I did go ahead and put the newer firmware on it but the card still didn't work until I formatted the internal memory. I had a good 3gb of music on the internal storage. It just stopped recognizing any music on...

My amp3 pro2 has stopped recognizing my 16gb microsd memory card. Every time I insert it, it goes for the initializing screen for a split second then drops back to the storage media screen and when I select external it just says "no file". I have tried reformatting the card and putting a few...

Quote: Originally Posted by sokolov91 Metal is offensive people people don't have a capacity or willingness to appreciate it. The vast majority of Pop, hip hop, rap etc are offensive because they are a waste of my precious ears and simply have no depth,integrity, culture, or...

Quote: Originally Posted by james444 ^ x2. One more thing I find amusing, bluetooth wireless audio is almost unanimously shunned on head-fi while the AMP3 gets heaps of praise from some. Fact is, the AMP3 has a lot more hiss than even my bluetooth rig which I rate as perfectly adequate...

Mine had about 14gb (1500 files) on it and the ~8 minutes was from a reset. I took a lot of files off and replaced with flac and now have 14gb with 1000 files and i am getting a 6-7 minute load time from a reset. Loading time not from resetting is usually less than 2 minutes, which is...

So I was messing around with my d3 and found that connecting (sort of) the solder points on the input and output (at least that's what I think I am doing, the pictures will explain better) completely eliminated the noise and buzzing I have been experiencing when using the amp through usb and...

Quote: Originally Posted by tony2win Wow, you guys are awesome here. Thanks for all the input; I really appreciate it! I can see what you guys mean by the SE530s just being too much. I guess I'll be trying to sell them or trade them away pretty soon. I guess the SE420 would be a...

If you are strongly considering se310 I direct your attention to this: Quote: Originally Posted by HellaChinese E4C's if you love crunching mids. These phones have the most pronounced mids of any IEM I've tried, including the SE530's and TF10's (but not as accurate as the SE530's)...

Indeed. That is a pretty epic ****. Or at least an epic fake ****. I know what I'll be making next time I am on a beach... Now to post something relevant to the thread to get things back on topic! I really wish hisound could improve the loading time from reset or power off. I would be...

Unfortunately all the Shures do have some treble roll-off but as the 110 has a listed frequency response of 22Hz – 17.5kHz while the higher end models say 20Hz - 19kHz, you may find the treble on the higher end models fine. If you like listening for longer periods, I definitely recommend going...

As someone who owns both the e4c (in the form of a scl4) and se530, I think you just haven't adjusted to them yet. I found the differences a bit off putting at first (sounded bass heavy for sure) but since I have gotten used to them I have enjoyed them immensely. Don't jump back and forth, just...

Seems like this has been asked so many times there should be a sticky. I would think it is common sense. As people have said it will actually in all likelihood lower the quality as lossy compression utilizes things that I don't really understand such as Psychoacoustics. Basically it is not...

Quote: Originally Posted by anadin What exactly are the missing letters to this conunderum. It rhymes with Brit I think.

While I agree with headfever's sentiment... Quote: Originally Posted by headfever Someone paired AMP3 with DT 880 and made a conclusion that AMP3 is weak on power. The conclusion is also unfair to AMP3. it is wellknown that DT880 is the one of the most difficult boosting phones...

I have had the same experience with my two favorite bands (Opeth and Dream Theater) and Porcupine Tree as well. Some good music takes time to "get" I think.

Mine did not smell bad either...a little funny maybe but not particularly bad.

So is Lateralus winning because everyone immediately thought of it upon looking at thread title or because it has been prominently listed at the top of the list for a while now? I know if I hadn't seen so many suggestions for it I might not have considered it my favorite but all the votes for...