What kind of thinsulate are you using? Most fabrics and insulations come in different weights/R factors, however you want to describe it.    a quick search brought up CS150, is this what you used?   Thanks for the great idea, I've been looking for some better dampening for a pair of...

No one wants to mention the mini-max? It's at the top of my list for a n00b build. TomB's kits are *complete*. Utterly. Lots of support and it sounds awesome. I've used mine with HD650s and Grado 325i headphones. It works very well with both, although slightly better with the senns. for...

I don't think Cat5 would work very well as it is very stiff. I've heard of it being used for speaker cable, but never for headphones. If you want to experiment (because it's cheap) I would go for cat6 as it is stranded and much more flexible. I don't think it would be the best fit for your...

Hello,   While I can't comment on what would be best for you, I can give you a bit of my experience.  I have a PPA v2 and I like it very much. I have opa627 in all three channels, cerafines on the power rail, orange drops on the outputs, and have boosted the bias and decreased the gain to...

I am in a similar situation and went a similar route. My setup is Acer Aspire One->TASCAM Us-144 as transport->(Broken external DAC I still need to fix)->PPAv2->Grado 325i. I've tried the netbook with ubuntu netbook remix, xp, and win7 ultimate. I've chosen to go with win7 as it has drivers...