Could anybody please help me with the recording setting for a research project in acoustic phonetics?   I was collecting some pilot speech data for pitch and intensity analysis on Praat, but something seemed to have gone wrong with the equipment configuration. I was using Sony ECM55B...

Great pics...great thread! Is this by any chance also the longest head-fi thread? (2345 posts)

Quote:   How many more are there, i wonder...  

http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/502852/audio-novice-100-150-budget-advice-also-needed

Quote: The opposite of cold sound. See this post http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/220770/describing-sound-a-glossary  

Quote: nice play of words. lol  

Quote: Glad to know they turned out authentic. I got my pair boxed from an Amazon UK seller last year for a bit more than that.   Just out of curiosity. Did yours come in original box or just plastic bag?  

^ I would worry about the packaging. The cable also looks suspicious. And the price... too low to be genuine

^ Please note that the Apple In Ear reviewed in that post refers to the 2nd generation with microphone and remote control. It has two drivers in each earpiece and hence called ADDIEM (Apple dual driver in ear monitor) on head-fi. That actually is not a bad product at all. It is a clean...

^ They did that for a while I remember but I didn't research much on them. Were they any good?

Audio-Technica CK32 (if I remember the model right, and strictly canalphones are not IEMs, I know). Mediocre build quality and weak sound (in almost all respects). But that was my first attempt at higher quality phones. They did burn-in after extended listening and improved a little bit. They...

Since Sennheiser is a sponsor of headfi, let's hope opinions here on the forums will be heard and fed back to their reserarch dept.

The current lower end Shure line does not seem to receive much love here. Well within your budge there is radiopag custom tuned http://radiopaqproducts.com/custom_tuned.htm I haven't heard them myself so can't really recommend, but remember seeing some nice things said about them on head-fi...

For your entertainment...  

Quote: Someone will sonner or later find a way to recable these. But IMHO I cannot see the inline volume control doing any harm. It can simply be left alone at the max level. I might start a new thread: why is there so much hate of volume control.