I took the photo without foans, but I'm using it ;) I'll keep using the Monks for a few weeks, I like it, just the innitial impresions was nothing special as I had probably imagined

The monks have really good value and I would never buy an apple earbud at $35 over it, I will keep suggesting it to friends who wants to replace their cellphones earbuds. But reading all the reviews I think I was expecting something more "wow".   I bought two pairs at once, to save on...

SO... I got my pairs of Monk plus and to me.... not better than the 9 euro Sennheiser mx170   would "the internet" be talkign about the Monk if it costed 10~15$ ? I don't get this hype

Cobalt rocks!

wouldn't digital recordings sound better, with less hiss, better EQ due to multiple channels, and better soundstage? (I'm not taking conductors credit in account) I often feel disappointed when I read a record inlines to find it's really old recordings and wonder how would it sound if recorded...

yeah, not every, actually not many, music is avaliablie hi-res

wait, what about FCA?   I had the bluray of the FCA 35 tour and its amazing

Do you like Mastodon? Check The Hunter   But listen right now to CLUTCH - from beale street to oblivion   Also Red Fang - Murder the mountains   both sounds are more Stoner Rock than your references, but it's worthy checking it out

Soul Hackers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmjEEBbEmsA

not personal, we're talking two cenarios,   first cenario: listening to tidal outside, with noise everywere, so no "need to be paranoid" just a good pair of headphones will do second cenario: getting the best sound out of it at home   your method is for the second cenario, obviously, you...

hey, we're listening what you have to share just gave my input on how I do it, plugging Tidal digitally to a home receiver is a "simple" way to have great sound quality and bypass the dac from the phone

any mid-range headphones will sound OK for listening music with iphones/adroids outside, no need to be paranoid about it   for listen music at home, the best and simple way to go is plug your iphone diitally (via usb/dock) on your amp and play pre-downloaded songs avaliable on hi-fi, so it's...

As I said above, many many albums, even from famous artists are not avaliable due to royalties disputes, or can be simply cut-out from the SERVICE. I have a Tidal account and I use it a lot, but many albums have a emotional tie about the time it was released or when I first listened to it, it's...

there are many Motorhead best-of Some of the best tracks are Overkill, Bomber, Iron Fist, The chase is better than the Catch, and some new ones like Teach you How To Sing The Blues, English Rose, God Was Never On Your Side

I think it's a personal "victory" when I try to listen to some album on Tital and it's not avaliable, but I have the cd back home.   That's not a glaring problem with music, because most work of popular artistis are avaliable (try to watch some french/italian movies on Netflix, yeah...) but...