The HD650 is certainly not a bright headphone. It is well known that they have a comparably darker sound than a lot of other high end headphones. On the graphs, there is also a clearly visible dip in the frequencey respone around 4 kHz which is the opposite of what is expected by a bright...

2 hours of TV a day? Oh I can't imagine how the US would look if that in fact the case. Creativity among the general public and fitness might jump up through the roof. The real number is in fact a staggering 30 hours/week. See for example this article: Average home has more TVs than people -...

A headphone amp basically is a preamp that can drive low impedance loads (that is headphones) too. Hence most of the higher end headphone amps also offer outputs to a power amp to enable it to function as both a headphone amp and a preamp in the same system. if you want an example of this...

If we are talking about the minimum set up: Portable: IAudio X5L or equivalent (let's say 300 USD) Westone UM2 (250 USD) Home: ATH-ESW9 driven by my laptop (300 USD, computer excluded of course) This totals 850 USD. I am perfectly content with just using my ESW9s at the moment. I...

I own both of those headphones and find that comment about the soundstage a bit odd. The RS1 has more of a in your head presentation than the HD600 IMO, but you the fact that the RS1 works as a circumaural headphone for me when using bowls might play a role. Then again, I also hear a huge...

This old thread sounds like a candidate for being mentioned in this thread: http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f4/top...ystems-183006/

Well I think the waiting and delays on a product like this is to be expected. After all, it is not as if Craig can just walk in to any random electronics store and get the spare parts, as many of the parts in this amp are not exactly standard parts. If he is out of some, then so be it. Hopefully...

How is it going for the rest of you international buyers? I just love this. Apparantly my amp (which I confirmed my order for in mid/late April) won't be shipped until August due to a lack of 230V transformers for the power supply. Unless these transformers just vaporized, couldn't I have heard...

Quote: Originally Posted by TSi how do u listen to ur equipment without music =P By using the music merely as a mean to hear the capabilities of your musical system, and then to primarily enjoy how well the system is able to present the music and not the musical content. Example...

Quote: Originally Posted by tfarney I still don't get it. Perhaps it's because I don't know what the "V" is. But I get input and output. At either end, the signal from the source is running through a nest of resistors. If that sucks out detail what is the difference. And talk real slow...

Quote: Originally Posted by soundboy I find the difference between the 2 websites quite extreme Have you considered the fact that the people on this website are significantly younger than the people who hand around on the typical audiophile website? I don't feel particularily...

The Zana deux only uses one 6SL7 so that the exteme uses one 6SN7 hardly makes the Extreme cheaper in terms of tubes. The fact that you can only roll one tube in the Zana is in a way a bonus for me, as I would rather avoid spending too much hunting down different tubes and comparing them. If the...

Unfortunately it seems like I have to bring this thead back to life. Somehow my player that has worked perfectly for the last 18 months or so just seems to have developed a problem with reading my CDs. When I put in a new CD pushes the "open/close" button, I get the message "clos" (normal). So...

Flavour of the month

The RS1/PX100 graphs are certainly among the most bizarre things on headrooms site. Given the graphs, they should definitely have a similar sound yet they sound nothing alike in my opinion. Another good example is the DT880/K501 graphs which indicate that they should have a similar mid bass. In...