He does not offer wood change service as it would be extremely time-intensive and extremely costly. It is likely POSSIBLE to change the wood yourself, but you would likely be voiding the warranty and without getting your cup milled EXACTLY right and adjusting the dampening to account for the...

Has anyone been able to find out...Is the WM1Z running Android or no?

353X doesn't have much more power, the biggest improvement over the 323S is that it exposes the balanced inputs that the 323S apparently has internally.   According to Spritzer, the 323S/353X is currently the best amp that Stax makes. The 717 and 727 can be feedback modded to sound decent and...

I've demoed HD800's several times from several amps (Schiit Magni 2U, Schiit Ragnarok, some Eddie Current amp and an Aune S16). All of them had harsh treble (though the Eddie Current's treble was the least bad IMO). I also tried HD800S on the Ragnarok and while it was certainly better than the...

Let's have a bit of story time...JD's Audio Journey (tl;dr: My introduction):   I was born a poor bl...Wait, that's a different story...   Like most people in this hobby (I think), I started on low-fi/budget-fi crap like Sony MDR-ZX100 and crappy gaming headsets.   From there I upgraded...

I really like the Fostex TH-X00's for rock. If you don't want to buy used or deal with several-month turnarounds from Massdrop, TH-600's are slightly better (but more expensive).   They're kinda U-shaped, but they're really smooth and don't have the harsh treble of Beyers.

Ah, thanks!   I thought it was sometime back in like 2004 or something.

If anyone here has the Darin Fong ESP950 -> Stax adapter cable, are the pins on the Stax end really rough at the tip? This cable seems a bit poorly made for being a $150 cable...

IMO, the best price/performance with Schiit right now are the Modi 2 Uber and Magni 2 Uber for the lower-budget and Gungnir + Mjolnir 2 for higher budget.   Both sets are powerful enough to drive HE-400's or HE-500's

Ah, fair enough...I still have the white foam as well, but i'm not interested in swapping it out either...

I'm curious... Does anyone know when Sennheiser went from the "old box": http://i.imgur.com/11fCr9i.jpg to the new: https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xap1/t51.2885-15/s320x320/e15/11326807_101448926864224_142534947_n.jpg ?   A buddy of mine bought a pair used and they had the old box...

Just wondering, have you 1.1 upgraded your Ether C's yet? I've done the upgrade on mine and it would be interesting to A/B them if possible/feasible...

I mean no, but it's more justified when you're spending $200 to improve your $2000 headphones vs spending $200 to improve $1000 headphones.

I've recently moved from Digital Files (A mix of 256k+ MP3's and FLACs) to streaming.   I have accounts at Google Play Music and TIDAL. I tend to use GPM for most of my listening because it's smaller files, has a better UI and I prefer their computer curation of playlists to TIDAL's rap-heavy...

IMO, here's the breakdown between the 3:   HD800 - SUPER-detailed, VERY neutral, VERY harsh highs (without modding, after modding the highs are still too harsh for me IMO, but they're acceptable to others), very comfortable HD700 - Similar to HD700, but smaller earpads (less comfortable) and...