This. As any sort of engineer, you never stop learning. And never underestimate the immense value of personal experience. Many things that seem like a good idea now (and that do work) aren't looking so clever when you come back to them a year later.

I'm a software engineer, so I deal with bits and bytes instead of sheet metal and circuit boards, but all of this rings true to me.

Is it too late to answer this...? I don't think any of these have been mentioned yet. Riverside - Love, Fear And The Time Machine (Prog Rock; everything about this is beautiful - especially Mariusz Duda's singing. very high production values, too) Ayreon - 01011001 (Prog Rock/Metal; this...

I ordered on the 29th and already got it a week later, which was highly unexpected. Usually stuff I order from the US takes at best 3 weeks door-to-door, including customs. So that was a really nice surprise. Don't know what happened to customs, though. So far I haven't gotten any notification...

I would love to see Replay Gain implemented, too. Without it the shuffle function is basically useless to me, because going from Classical straight to Metal...   Ouch.   Adjusting the volume of the song at the start after reading the metadata couldn't be too hard to implement, I imagine...

Thanks It took only about 30 seconds to download from dropbox.

Yeah, that happened to me, too. I couldn't reproduce it, though.

  I'm glad that you like them :-) I've never heard the Momentums, so unfortunately for me the comparison's not particularly helpful. I have heard about the fitting problem, though. That would probably be the worst thing that could happen, finding a hp that sounds brilliant, but is uncomfortable...

  I'll have a listen with the X3 once the local Apple reseller has the P7. When I went there last week and they didn't even know there was a new B&W headphone, but promised they'd get some shortly. If they let me, I'll compare them there with my Audio Technica ATH-ESW9 and maybe the P5 (to...

Got mine a while ago from a Japanese seller on ebay when they weren't available on amazon.com. I was so glad they turned out to be the real deal; I only heard about the fakes after I ordered >_<   Anyway, I'm very pleased with the sound and fit and look. They could isolate a bit better, but I...

Quote: I had the same problem at first, even though I had formatted the card to FAT32 using Linux Mint's Disks utility. Turns out it was formatted a bit strangely as there was a rather large gap of a few hundred Megabytes of unallocated space before the first partition. I used GParted...

I recently got an ODAC/O2 combination from Head'n'Hifi with bamboo faceplates. Very nice-looking (and sounding, of course). I couldn't test with my K701s, though, as I only have one of those short adapters and don't want to risk ripping the connector from the board ;)

Quote: I'm one of them   At the moment I'm using a Pro-Ject DAC Box USB. I don't really have anything to compare it to, though.

Quote: Because they scratch easily and I like the look of those: http://www.head-fi.org/t/545288/audio-technica-ath-es-10-appreciation-thread/90#post_8517556

#50626 on the left side. Got them from amazon.de about 3 years ago.