Sorry for my prolonged absence from the Head-Fi forums. An extended period of unemployment, followed by my hiring at another supermarket, then finally my promotion to a full-time work schedule, left me with little time to even post in the forums. To make matters worse, my password expired and...

I just got back from the 2010 ChiUniFi meet. We had a great time over there.   I got to listen to the balanced Sennheiser HD 800 headphones. Recabled, it sounded nice with acoustic and drums.   A very special thanks to the sponsers for providing the prizes. And another thank you to...

Earlier today, I got back some 8x10 and 8x12 enlargements from various digital images (taken with my Canon A540 and SD750 cameras) and 35mm film negatives (taken with a 1990s Canon SureShot 105zoom camera on ISO 100 FujiFilm print film). I've checked for sharpness first and foremost. The...

I've just arrived home from the meet. I had a great time over there. This time, I didn't bring as much equipment to this meet as I had been bringing to previous meets - only a Sony D-EJ2000 portable CD player, a RS Emmeline SR-71 amp and Sennheiser HD 555 and HD 595 headphones. Of course...

To all Head-Fiers who attended the downtown Chicago Head-Fi meet, Please post your impressions of your gear in this thread. I just got home from the meet, and am too tired to post any impressions right now.

...until I read the hype here at Head-Fi about the AKG K701's. Given the fact that my best headphones right now are the Sennheiser HD600's (and HD595's), and the fact that I have nothing better than a Grado RA-1 for an amp right now, I've definitely decided to order an Emmeline SR-71. As...

Here is a quote from Ice Nine, as posted inadvertently in the Dedicated Source Components forum: Quote: Originally Posted by Ice Nine OK, I bought this PCDP on a whim at Wal-Mart the other night. It's a fairly plain PCDP aside from the fact that the package boldy stated "15 mw per...

I wrote a mini-review over at iPodstudio: http://ipastudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2404 Feel free to discuss that review either over there or over here.

Quote: Originally Posted by mmmpopfanatic I've been looking to buy the d-ej001, but how's the battery life? The package says it only gets 12 hours of battery life, but I emailed Sony and they said it was actually 50 hours, a more realistic number for a Walkman. Any idea what yours is...

This afternoon I picked myself up a pair of the Sennheiser HD595's (the newer 50-Ohm revision) at the Virgin Megastore on North Michigan Avenue. The price is $229.99 (about $250 after sales tax), which is lower than even the discounted price from you-know-which-two respected mail-order headphone...

Here is my RightMark report for the Sony D-EJ001 (with frequency response graphs): With G-Protection Off: Frequency response (from 40 Hz to 15 kHz), dB: +0.10, -0.78 Good Noise level, dB (A): -83.9 Good Dynamic range, dB (A): 84.2 Good THD, %: 0.011 Good IMD + Noise, %: 0.023 Good...

...quality spectrum (among mass-market consumer headphones) was the Bose TriPort. Mr. Hertsens brought that 'phone just to show the meet goers how ********* craptacular (for its $150 price tag) those TriPort really was. I listened to the TriPort, and it sounded even worse than I remember it...

I am setting up tomorrow's Chicago Head-Fi Meet impressions thread right now because I will be at work this evening until almost midnight. Please do not reply to this thread until late this evening at the earliest. I will post my impressions tomorrow. I may be late arriving there...

Quote: Originally Posted by sundragon Sony have promulgated its newest network walkman in Beijing,NW-E50 with 128mb flash memory($185),NW-E70with 256mb flash memory($210).It's support both ATRAC3plus and mp3. With Sony's high quality and high quality sound,I think iRiver will lose its...

My home CDP, a nine-year-old low-end Sony CDP-C265 five-disc carousel, is growing long on the tooth. And it sometimes fails to read some comercially-pressed CDs. I am thinking about replacing it with a decent lower-end budget player. My current price cap is about $200 plus tax and/or shipping...

Now that my Monster Interlink Portable 400MkII cable came in, I am gathering my four mini-to-RCA cables for this round-up:RCA 6' cable with "gold-plated" plugs (purchased from Target), $4.99 AR Performance Series 1m AP042 cable (purchased from Best Buy), $12.99 Monster Standard Interlink...

If you have less than $25 to spend on cables, and you're going to use them to connect a portable audio player (such as a HD-DAP or a PCDP) with a mini-jack output to a dedicated headphone amp which has only RCA inputs, which one would you pick (sound-quality-wise)? The choices will be listed...

...the Sennheiser HD 555 is the true successor to the HD 545, based on a pair of the HD 545 that I've listened to over at the meet. Why did Sennheiser ****** this lineage up by coming out with the HD 570 in the interim (1999-2004)? Finally, I talked to elrod tom about Beatles recording...

A couple of days ago, I picked this PCDP up at Target just to compare to the Sony D-NE300 that I purchased recently. Here are my brief impressions: - The player has all of its controls, save for the (edge-mounted) Hold switch, located on the lid. This makes it easier to use than the Sony...

I've been to Headroom's site early this morning, and looked at the headphone list there. While the SR-60 still rates 4.5 heads (out of 5) on Headroom's Value Rating scale, none of the other Grados rate more than 3.5 heads. To be specific, the value ratings dropped as follows: SR-80: 4...

...while neglecting the innards of these F'ing dung huts. As a result, the sound quality of low-to-mid-end component audio, as a group, is as p*ss-poor as the average low-end component audio of the mid-1990s. And some of those components sound even worse - worse than that of some portable...

I have an M-Audio Revo 7.1 sound card. But recently, I installed Foobar 2000 v08.2 - and I've also installed the ASIO and Kernel Streaming plug-ins. Unfortunately, I never got either of those to work at all - at least on the music files that I tried to play: .WAV files, Audio CDs, and the like...

...I'm not leaving Head-Fi for the summer. I'm talking about saying goodbye to all of my full-sized headphones for the summer. (And nope; I'm not selling any of them for the moment - I'm just putting them in storage during the hot months.) You see why I'm saying this? Because I'm very prone...

I have tested three of my portable CD players - the iRiver iMP-350, the Sony D-EJ2000 and the Sony D-NE300 - along with my Sony MZ-E10 MD player, using the latest 5.3 release of RMAA. Here are the results for my iRiver iMP-350:

I arrived at the meet location a bit late, due to the sluggish public transportation. I have listened to on my amped portable equipment (in addition to the headphones that I brought to the meet) the AKG K271S and K501, the Beyerdynamic DT880, the Grado HP1000 (Tuberoller's), the Sennheiser HD...