Most of the music on your hard-drive have been rip with a cheap CD/DVD/BlueRay writer inside your or someone else computer. Even the one you buy generally. For data, where there is no timing involved, a 0 or a 1 bits are a 0 or a 1. No error there. But for music streaming, the punctured hole in...

Thanks for the clarification purrin. Please note that I have increased my budget to 1.2k since this post. But this should include an amp and a dac. . I didn't bought anything yet. I am in an ex-path and it is impossible to do some listening session. I have been corresponding with a few...

I have more than a thousand CDs in all kinds of music. But I guess 15 to 25% of my listening these days involves Pat Metheny, mostly the Pat Metheny Group.   I recently did some heavy listening sessions in the HiFi shops around me looking for my first HiFi headphones (DT-880, HE-500...

About the crooked volume knob. I don't have a Magni in hand, so I may be way out of line.   I use to assemble HiFi gear in an earlier life and this seems to be a classic case of a generic knob over a bit too small pot shaft (or sometime a too short shaft). If there is a small hole somewhere...

Thanks Kermarc for the precision. True that I didn't open a dictionary or a wiki over this. My initial subject was then indeed the diminishing returns. OK, can I say then that XYZ headphone will bring me 80% of the sound of a big gun for only 20% of the price?   Nevertheless, I like your...

Very interesting replies. The wisdom is flying high here!   Thanks to all of your contribution. This is exactly what I was looking for. Something to ground myself.   Starting fresh in the headphone pond, I did find a usefull utility to all this review: I have developed an heaphone...

You all heard about it: it takes 20% of your effort to get 80% of the result. Getting the last 20% needs 80% more effort.   My question is how does it relate to headphone?   I have read all over this forum that this XYZ $50 headphone beats lots of $150 headphones. And then that this...

It’s official, I am going crazy now. I have been reading night and day Head-Fi threads for the past two weeks and I am now on the verge of the asylum.   First, please, don’t make this thread another brand or model recommendation. There is too much of this and it is part of the problem. I am...

Hi,   OK, we all agree that moshelict1 on eBay clearly sells fake copies of the JVC HA-FX500, no doubt. I am reviving this thread to ask a simple question: does anyone have ever listen to these counterfit?   I am asking this because my experiences with lots of chinese counterfit products...