hi I just discovered Josh Ritter while searching for good microphones for taping shows. I instantly visited his website and found out that his tour calendar says he'll be only in the USA, not where I live (Switzerland). Oh, wait. He'll be in Verbier, Switzerland the 24th of July. Damn, that...

hi IMHO michael buble is a pop-star and not a jazz singer (though the two are not mutually exclusive in general, of course). this does not mean I don't like his music, it's just that during production of his CDs sound engineers seem to have had a pretty tough time keeping his voice in pitch...

hi ya8282 I know that sometime, I'll have to upgrade the DAC section as well. for the creek obh-21 & hd-650 combination, I will try to get hold of some of the music you mentioned (foremost glenn gould's bach goldberg variations) and will try to reproduce your findings. regards nicola

hi as suggested, I de-foamed the headphones, though a difference is not immediately hearable (fortunately for such a premium product). burning-in the Creek OBH-21 was even mentioned in the user manual, and I think I'm done with that now after more than a week of regularly listening...

hi do you have any good sources for such PSUs? or criteria that good ones should meet? I'll try defoaming them this weekend, thanks for the tip with the earbuds & the manual. regards nicola

hi I looked at defoaming it, however I don't know the exact process and it was not clear how to do it just from looking at the cans. maybe you have a link handy or some how-to? the PSU I use is the small one that came with the amp. no OBH-21SE for me. regards nicola

hi all my Creek OBH-21 finally arrived yesterday. I did not have the time to burn it in or listen to a wide range of music. however there are some very noticeable differences - the HD-650's sounds more laid back, bass is less over-present and is integrated better. detail / resolution made a...

eagleboy, I was generally speaking, as highend-wireless-audio is an interesting field where commercial hardware is simply missing AFAIK. I fully understand that you need a working solution and no silver bullet, so I'm happy for you that you have wireless Grado and I don't. I have wired HD-650...

hi to have a really good sounding wireless solution, you need the following: 1. a bluetooth 2.0 transmitter, accepting digital PCM data (44.1khz, 16bit, 2 channels: 1.4mbit/s + some error correction) 2. a bluetooth 2.0 receiver, with built-in DAC and headphones amp. if you leave the...

Zorander, I obviously don't know your personal situation. however growing up with a sister 4 years younger than me I know what it means people not really acting the way they should (and that includes me! . you should take some measures so that horrible things as you wrote about never happen...

hi let us not confuse things. lossy compression schemes like mp3, aac etc. include less information, thus you _might_ hear the difference to lossless music. however, depending on the music type, your setup, quality of compression, and background noise this can be difficult to hear...

hi some interesting anecdote from yesterday: when I told the poor guy from the hi-fi shop I bought the HD-650 for CHF 375.- incl. taxes (about €225 w/o taxes) from a guy trading in his own flat, he told me that he'd like to slap these kind of people in their faces... hi-fi guy told me that...

if the amp receives a signal like this: Code: _____ | | _____| |_____ and it produces something like this on the output: Code: ____ / \ _____/ \_____ then it is slow. mp3 and other psycho-acoustic formats are inherently "slow" as well (fourier-transformation). other components...

Quote: Originally Posted by Zorander You probably are not for the Sennheiser house sound OR those HD-650s have yet to open up (they need more than 150 hours of play. Seriously). The Creek will power those headphones, plus anything else connected to its other jack, effortlessly. Its...

Quote: Originally Posted by Zorander The OBH-21 (...) is a relatively neutral piece of gear that does not impose any particular sonic character. exactly. and now I know why people say that the HD-650 is difficult to drive! it's difficult to "fix" the character of the 650 with a...