I'm afraid I don't have an HE-500 comparison.   I think the Talos holds up pretty well against the TH-X00. The TH-X00 is a very formidable headphone, though. In my review I compared the two:   Tonally, I think both really nail the targets they were trying to do. The TH-X00 nails being a...

  Thanks for the review, Keanex! I've added some excerpts from your review to the top level post.

I really didn't like the stock orange cable, but I haven't had any connection problems since switching to a V-Moda Audio Only cable.

  I'm likely going to sell my TH-X00, honestly. The Talos are very good and, honestly, because the Talos isolate more, I use them more often. I haven't used the TH-X00 much since getting the Talos.   On a technical and sonic level, I really dig the TH-X00. I think it's got a great tuning and...

It's because the #1 liked post on the home page is based upon the likes in the past 24 hours.   If you look at the 7-day likes, Ultrabike comes up as #1.   I suspect that most of the likes on Ultrabike's post are not in the last 24 hours -- the post is over 2 days old. It looks like Dan's...

Sorry to necro this thread, but I've finally gotten around to reviewing my Woodphones. Mine arrived back around the time that White Lotus's arrived, but I had lagged behind on getting my review out.   I'm looking forward to seeing reviews for the Fostex-based model come out!   Review...

  Alright, responded to your points and I got some graphs out of the psychoacoustics book.

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Essentially, we need to introduce crossfeed in a really intricate way to truly emulate the soundstage of speakers?   i.e. a system that not only takes into account your position, but also when you move your head, etc, etc.

To start, the IEM measurements at InnerFidelity ALL show lower THD+N -- I think that's inherent to the testing methods used.   Secondly, I think you're attacking a strawman here. My point is that distortion in large enough quantities sounds bad -- 10% THD+N is going to sound like crap if you...

There's a difference between adding 0.1% THD+N and introducing 10% THD+N, though.

I don't even know where amplifiers and analog gear was even mentioned in the post. The amount of distortion added by a typical tube amp relative to an SS amp is an order of magnitude lower than the distortion added by a headphone.

The confounding factor with soundstage, IMO, is the angle at which the sound waves hit your ear. Pinnae reflections can play a huge role in the localization is sounds. I think this is the logic behind the Ultrasone S-Logic.

Apparently $50.   http://www.amazon.com/Placebo-Pellets-pellets-Standard-Homeopathic/dp/B0006NZHU4/ref=pd_sim_sbs_hpc_6

  My point is just that I doubt that 1 ohms is the highest measuring resistance in a cable ever. Although in most cases there would be a likely inaudible FR shift as a result of using a different cable, I believe that there are likely a select few cables which will result in differences.

At 300 ohms it won't make much of a difference, but it'll make a difference at 32.

  Unfortunately not. That said, the measurement makes sense even with what BMF's measurement rig shows.   For example, BMF's rig shows that LCD-2 measuring almost flat into the treble ranges. In almost every single other measurement, the LCD-2 rolls -5 to -10dB from 1khz to the lower treble...

I've been recently thinking about the nature of headphone modding and how to properly attack it from a sound science perspective, rather than trial and error. I'm not an extremely experienced headphone modder, nor am I an audio engineer, but I'm looking for criticism of my headphone modding...

I think the point of diminishing is very low, actually.   Entry Level IEM (> $10): Monoprice 8320 and Philips SHE3580 are the best you can get. Entry Level Headphones (> $20): Kicker HP541 rebrand (balanced-ish with some oddball mids emphasis and a treble peak in sibilance range), Koss KSC75...

There is only one official revision. That said, there are different versions out -- Hifiman just doesn't recognize them as different. I will refer to them by their "Rev #"s, but know that it is not an official distinction.   HE-300 Rev 1 came in a wooden box and has 4 screws instead of 6 on...

Good point. I hadn't considered excess gain. I suppose with excess gain in mind, it works out.

Kind of curious where you guys believe the voltage requirements for a pair of headphones should be for suggesting amps.   Up to now, I've always been basing it off 110dB as a reasonable SPL cap and basing my voltage calcs based on that.   Thinking about it, though, I feel like it isn't a...

It's a typo. It's probably 112dB given the 0.01V to 90dB and its impedance.

Given that this is supposed to remove backwaves off the ear/face, I assume that this concept generalizes to all headphones and not just planars?