Thank you good sir. I just need to be sure. I have been hesitant to get the cable suggested by you for my ATH-IM50, due to lack of experience with the cable side with audio. I figured this would be a good to test that theory, but if it only came with just the one my test would be mute.

Does anyone know when you order a pair of VSD3/S from Penon with the upgrade cable if you still get the stock with it?

Glad you enjoy.

Ok, sounds good. If I cannot translate it good enough the SO can. She is always correcting my Japanese.

You cannot go wrong with MonsterCat Media.

My week has been officially ruined.  Now I know what anticipation feels like.

  What is the link? I will help with the translation.

I can see the skepticism to this, but all I ever do with thing is turn it on and hit play. After that I lock it and forget. When I'm done I manually shut the player down. I'll play closer attention to this and see what result I get. Along with a benchmarking.

Correct. In the end it is how you feel about the HP/IEM.

Welcome to the iPod Classic Rockboxed family.

Quite true. The burn in effect may vary ever so slight, but I do not discount that it can change greatly. I do believe it really depends on build. Another factor to take in is if the manufactures do a burn in prior to packaging and shipping. Though I doubt it considering the quantities being...

Burn in has been proven to be true in both matters, so it's really up to the person to decide what they want to believe is true. Now if you really want to test the theory you will have to record the actual sound signatures from OOTB to compare it with the sound signatures over set periods of...

Just tried with same results. Down for maintenance?

      The warranty was quite easy. The wait no so bad. Took me less than a month to ship out and receive it back from LMURE's.

  Yeah that is what I figured still. I am using the FiiO E12, and it does the job well.  Just would be nice to pass through a dac/amp or pure dac some day.