Quote:   Recent metal doesn't mean harsh vocals. I think you could give a try to My dying bride's A line of deathless kings, Stratovarius' Polaris or Katatonia's The great cold distance. And there are so much more.     I got into music with metal. Cradle of filth and Lordi were the...

Quote:   I'm afraid a set of LCD2 and a proper amp are out of his budget     I just think you went unlucky with both pairs of Grado. I bought mine used almost a year ago and there has been no problem at all so far. Compared to my Shure SE215 and HD600, my Grado SR80i delivers a more...

As for metal, I can quote Drudkh - Forgotten legends, Mantus - Deep hypnosis trance and, less "bizarre" but still special, Killing joke - Hosannas from the basements of Hell. These three albums have a strong effect on me, and I really love it. Hell - Hell is another species of "bizarre" metal...

Ready for Saturday night listening session #2 - Discovering the HD600, part III :     Laptop (without internet - wi-fi isn't strong enough to reach my room from the basement), GrubDAC, Millett "Starving student", and SR80i & HD600.

Hello there,   I recently acquired a set of Sennheiser HD600, which came with an 1/8 to 1/4 gold-plated adapter. The problem with this adaptater is that it had solid brass black cuff that prevents from plugging other 1/8 connectors than that of the HD600. I wanted to use it with my Grado, so...

Pimpest switch ever.

Mogami 2534 and Hicon 3,5 mm connectors :    

A Belvu 12AU7 tube on my Millett's "Starving student" hybrid amp. More than 30-second exposure at 100 ISO.  

Ewww... Two day after testing the amp for the first time, the right channel just ceased working. I'm stuck, because the problem seems particuliar, and I am ignorant at electronics. Thus, I'm asking help from you electronic gurus.   Here's the matter : V1 belongs to the right channel, and...

After a very, very long procrastination that began when I finally gathered all the elements, I eventually started building my MSSHA.   It has been more work than I thought, but also infinitely more pleasure.   Here are the pics of the complete process.

What's wrong with Grado's ?

There's no shorts between the traces between the chips and ground.   I've changed the output jack one more time, still no sound. All the contacts between U3's pins 1 and 16 (the lineouts) and pin 4 (line ground) are OK : the contacts, the traces, the resistor, the caps, the jack, the...

Quote:   Yes I do. The device is called "Haut-parleurs (USB Audio DAC  )".

The DAC doesn't "produce" sound. It is recognized by the computer, and its LED lights. It's not a volume problem, I've tested and messed with foobar2000's volume, Windows' volume, and all the "mixers" in the task bar. I've tested several output jacks. My multimeter says they're all fine...