@Andykong - re the 'popping' noise I'm getting with my N6 (see previous messages): I recently bought a headphone amp, and the odd sounds disappear when I'm using it. Clearly it's an issue with the N6's internal amp then. Could there be a long-term impact to the player? My N6 has been doing this...

Whoa. My wife would feed me to our dogs if I tried to build up a collection like that...if the bank manager didn't get there first anyway...awesome...

Just bought a used vorzuge pure ii off a fellow head fier and if I thought the GH1 was good before - oh, Wow! It hasn't changed the sound SIG in any way but is presumably better than the amp in the Cayin N6 (at the price of a new pure ii you would hope so anyway). A slightly bloomy bass has...

@Andykong - any further thoughts on the slight popping I hear when a track at the end of a folder finishes? I get a soft 'pop' sound at the end of the track and a second one as the N6 closes down at the end of a folder. Is no-one else getting this sound? It's not a major concern - at least I...

  I'm absolutely loving mine (with G cushions as others are saying). I'm not sure that it's a bad sign that there are some still in stock. If Grado made 1000 GH1 and there were still 900 in stock that would be surprising I guess, but even then it's not like they'll perish like fruit or...

Thanks Andy - like I say it's not a loud 'pop' but I would just add that it's not the headphones I'm using as it's the same whichever I try...it almost sounds like an old record player reaching the end of a disc and the needle lifting off the track

  Hmmm, I think you might just be messing with me   (but don't think I haven't already tried it just to see what it sounds like)

  Worked with me - I wanted them very badly! I've no complaints about the sound at all, but, yes, I agree they really could've shipped them with G cushions at surely not much dent in the bottom line...

I've been using G cushions on my GH 1 for a couple of weeks and started wondering last night whether I really could hear a difference or not from the stock cushions (and whether there is a slight congestion on some tracks with the G cushions because the bass is more present). Answer: absolutely...

@Andykong Just a quick question: when my N6 reaches the end of the last track in a folder there is a slight pop as it 'closes', the same just before the player reads the first track of a new folder. Is this normal? I had thought FW releases might fix it, but I'm using 3.1 and no change. It's not...

  That's what I meant really - these days just being a great product isn't always enough if you want to hold onto customers who may have to be careful how and where they spend their limited cash (I mean me, specifically not anyone else)...but I'm not a hi-fi manufacturer so what do I know about...

Fair enough, you guys know more far more than me, I was just thinking about how I would 'spread the word' on behalf of Grado to people who don't buy into the minimalist (sparse) packaging and who see similar-costing headphones come with accessories...of course Grado is a business, of course they...

Well, whoever it was - thanks!   Mind you, I'm actually sitting here feeling really irritated...these are undoubtedly fantastic headphones (as I've said before, I don't have experience of other similarly-priced phones or even more expensive ones, but the sound sig is just what I wanted so I'm...

awesome job...