£85 on play.com for hd595. You missed out on the play sale in January. They were down to £70! They also have the hd600 for £140 as well. Best prices I've ever seen and from a reliable dealer.

I've just gone for some sr60s. The import tax on the MS1's would have made them more expensive and it's a bit of a hassle. I'm hoping I won't be disappointed. I can always get some bowls for the SR60s later. Will this basically convert them into SR80s for cheap?!

Thanks for the help. By the time I pay the duty coming into the UK the cost of the MS1 will be around the same as the SR60. How bad is the Allessandro website? It puts me off, out of date certificates etc! I realise they are a bit better than the SR60 tho.

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I've had my HD595's for a year listening to rock/indie and electronica out of my X-Meridian PC Soundcard. I mainly listen to mp3's of mid to high quality. Sometimes I feel there is some excitement, punch, pace, detail missing from the 595's and I was looking for a reasonably cheap...

I currently use my 595's with my X-Meridian Soundcard which sounds great with my mp3's out my PC but sometimes I feel there may be something missing. I've always been tempted to invest in some sr60's but the price in the UK has put me off $130 or I could get some iGrados for $70. Thats one of...

Hi guys, I'm having a problem with winamp where it seems to be displaying an average bitrate for each VBR MP3 instead of showing the variable bit rate change on my mp3's. For example :174kbps instead of constantly changing. I have recently installed the MAD Plugin. Has anyone come across...

Just get some LM4562NA opamps. They are made by National Semiconductor. I think its DIP8 ones. They are quite cheap I paid probaly £10 (20canadian?) on ebay for 2. I only ever installed one on the front channel as I don't use the surround. I think you want DIP8 and they plug straight into...

I removed asio and tried steve monks kernel streaming instead which seems to wok fine. Is this just as effective as asio? It runs no problem now

ok, so what settings have you got on your asio plugin? Are you resampling? Its clearly the Asio plugin as Audioburst and Directsound etc are fine. ASIO jitters whilst doing tasks on the PC. I thought my X-Meridian was ASIO compatible and I thought asio was supposed to be easy to run...

ok thanks, I've now installed the MAD input plugin and ASIO. dll which are both working correctly. I now have a new problem. The asio plugin seems to be very cpu intensive and the sound jitters and pops when doing other tasks on the pcu. The cpu usage is jumping up to 100%. Any ideas how...

I changed out the front opamp only as I only use headphones with the card. It is the one closest to the backplate on the card with all the outputs on it. I bought some LM4562NA opamps on ebay which were quite reasonable. They are regarded as the best opamps and it is what the new Auzen...

I'm having a few problems with Asio. I installed the .exe asio plugin and then when I playback on winamp it just stops and doesn't play anything. I just uninstalled the plugin. I turned off the Audioburst Resampling and went to directsound instead. To enable direct sound do I just tick "...

Hi hope you can help, My current setup is my X-meridian soundcard with LM4562 opamps to my Senn HD595 cans. I have a question regarding software used for playback. At the moment I'm using winamp with the free audioburst plugin fx-2.10 to set the output to 192khz and 24bit for my mp3's with...

Ok, so I've had some Bose Acoustimass 3 speakers for about 4 years. They were bought at a time where i needed small speakers for a box room and before I realised Bose suck ass! I have a Yamaha AX-392 60WPC Stereo amp, about 5 years old which at the time was a budget amp what hi-fi magazine...