Recently, I have spent some time with the Zana Deux + Utopia, after spending months with the ECBA > Utopia. It should be noted that the ZD is the amp I am most fond of, despite the bevy of gear I have owned over the years. Unfortunately, I discovered that the ECBA is to the Utopia, what the...

First time messing around with metal on wood in a headphone stand.     

Adjustable top and adjustable cable wrap:              

Much as I like this headphone and I'm surprised at how well it holds up against a bevy of others, I do wonder if they hit their peak rather quickly and easily. Early impressions are that the Dharma is not only relatively easy to drive, but stays pretty much in character. In other words...

Listened to the Dharma a little bit this morning, for the first time. There is a quality that has been mentioned a few times and one I consider particularly important: immersiveness. The Dharma is very, very immersive. I don't know what accounts for this attribute, except to say that it's...

This one took a while to figure out (I eighty sixed three prototypes before this one). Pretty happy with this one:                      

         

     

I recently discovered the WA7 Firefly and couldn't help think that it was among the classiest designs I had ever seen in audio. I decide to pay homage to the amp by creating a little stand for it.   *While as a MOT I'm not allowed to advertise, this item happens not to be a commercial one.  ...

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Does anyone have thoughts on how these newer Daps perform relative to the bundles of recent memory (I.e, Clas > Alo MK3/Duet). Are there notable sacrifices that come with cramming all stages in a single, often smallish, package? Obviously they deliver on the aspects of convenience, but at what...

  D,   Let me start by saying that the above list is the very definition of subjective. It should not detract any person from listening to the headphones of their choice to the music of their pleasure. Secondly,  the above ranking is not representative of my feelings regarding the headphones...

Subjective rankings based on ownership: 97 - Stax SR007 (the only headphone, for jazz at least, to supplant #2) 94 - Grado HP1 (won't give you the euphony if it's not on the recording, can sound lifeless, amazing tuning, lifelike piano reproduction -- a rarity) 90 - HD650 (properly driven...

Not dark at all? Images pushed back? Wow, what LCD-3's do you own? The 1 Fazor I heard was unimpressive, and I too preferred my LCD-3C, but for different reasons. To this day the LCD-3 is the only "dark", "upfront" headphone that I believe was done right. It's a very distinct sound and as a...