Think about it logically. Why do different people have so different opinions about the EQ, amps, headphones etc.?   It is because people's hearing systems are very different! Your best investment in the hobby could be buying, reading, and *understanding* a book written by a reputable sound...

The procedure in the first link makes a lot of sense, this is similar to what I do. The procedure in the second doesn't.   The first procedure equalizes away both headphones' and listener's frequency response curve peaks and valleys. Which makes the music sound very lifelike, or, to be more...

I echo that experience. Headphones are inherently peaky and dippy. And so is the individual hearing system frequency response curves, which are very genetics/age/history/loudness-dependent.   Personalized EQ using studio-grade hardware and/or software makes huge difference! Once you do the...

So far I equalized HD650, D5000, DT770, and HD380 using Cubase 5. The four curves are quite different yet resemble yours in the overall shape. Made huge difference.   To those who regard equalization as nonsense, I recommend reading Chapter 19 of this...

True, a low risk activity. Margins are high indeed. But what about the volume? I would expect it to be rather low. Anyone has concrete sales data?   Quote:

Sorry to disappoint you, but research shows that crime doesn't pay, on average. True, outstanding profits are possible, but risks are outstanding too.   Quote:

I meant that it appears to me that there could be plenty of vendors and intermediaries not identifying themselves as such in every post.   As far as I know, member accounts here are not linked to any verifiable ids. How do you know that a particular cable proponent is not a shill or sock...

Vendors selling the cables that fail to differentiate from stock ones stand to lose everything from DBT.   Quote:

We are in complete agreement then    Quote:

I disagree with the statement that the  aggregate transfer function between the waveform represented by the recording and the  waveform of the sound arriving to outer ear should be a simple gain function. At the very least, it needs to be adjusted for the personal preference in the...

I like this timeless classic: http://www.amazon.com/Art-Sound-Reproduction-John-Watkinson/dp/0240515129.

(1)Turn CRTs off. (2) With no input, keep turning the amp volume knob up until you hear the noise floor. (3) Turn CRTs on. (4) Do you hear anything in addition to what you've heard on step (2)? If you do, how significant is it?   After this little experiment, you'll have a better idea...

I agree with your first statement. As a matter of fact, the only record in my collection that I consider truly faithful to live performance on my speakers rig is Living Stereo SACD of Beethoven sonatas played by Rubinstein. This is a three-channel SACD of a grand piano performance recorded by...

Went to a classical music concert today. No amplification. Still, I believe the sound level was reaching 90 db at times at my seating position. So the equivalent Fletcher-Munson curve was pretty flat. The music sounded very natural to me, right from the outset.   I don't listen to headphones...

I think the explanation is in demographics. The majority of the USA highest-spending consumers are aging baby boomers now. They are gradually losing sensitivity to the higher frequency bands. In order to hear music the way it sounded to them when they were young, they need  gear with quite...