Hmmm... I wonder if the Samsung Galaxy Nexus supports it. That's my phone. I have an ODAC arriving today, so I'll give it a shot.

Quote:   I ought to do that. At this point it's kind of pointless, though, since they're out for delivery today.   Incidentally, I live near Charlotte too. Small world! I missed that headphone meetup that happened a few months ago, though :/

Quote:   I apologize. When it said *one day remaining* and it showed the status as being on the westcoast and the destination set to Idaho, and then when I called UPS and they told me the full address was a mixture of my street address and another state, I thought for sure that it was in...

Quote:   I've got a similar issue... I got a tracking number for the UPS shipment, but under the 'destination' area of the tracking page it has been set to deliver to Idaho, while I live in NC. I asked and they contacted UPS and apparently this is something that UPS did as a temporary...

Old thread, but I just stumbled across it.   Look, the fact of the matter is that the output (even outside of high/low frequency ranges) is not bit-identical between lossy and uncompressed audio. Now, will anyone notice those differences? That isn't as simple to answer as "yes" or "no" - it...

Quote:   IE8s, ER4Ps and I'm awaiting a return shipment at the moment with some Heir Audio 8As.

Quote:   Those look great! The glow-in-the-dark logo sounds interesting. Once you get them I'd love to see a picture of them in a dimly-lit room with flash turned off.

Quote:   That's correct. I ordered the magnus cable and the stock cable since I wanted to be able to compare them (and it also gives me a spare cable, just in case), and I had to pay a little extra, so the cost of the stock cable is discounted from the magnus cable normally. Everyone's...

Quote:   Wow. Honestly, I'd be shocked if there's SUCH an improvement that I'd call my IE8s "mud", but I certainly won't be complaining if I do!   Yes, I'll be sure to post with my impressions of the magnus cable as opposed to a stock one. I'm changing around so much with my listening...

I'll probably attend. I mostly have IEMs, but I'll bring my AKG k701s along with an O2 amp and ODAC from JDS Labs.   Edit: Sorry, but I'm not going to be able to make it.

It's been some time since head-fi sucked me back into its money-burning clutches, but now that I'm back for a while I thought I'd follow up to my post about the IE8s.   The cleaning tool that comes with the IE8 has a side that can be used to adjust the bass dial. It will almost fit between...

...the bass dial for my taste. From what I've read the 8As have a much 'punchier' and more controlled bass response. I'm hoping that they don't have *more* bass representation than the IE8s do, but better quality instead. Has anyone had a chance to compare an 8A and an IE8 by chance, or have any...

  Quote:   I think you're referring to ear-head.com   I just bought an AKG k701 there the other day. Frank Diaz was very, very helpful. He's got a nice listening room and he patiently let me try several pairs of headphones I was interested in (sennheiser 600s, grados, and the AKG)...

I'm having this problem too. The left side often drops out...almost half the times I put them in, and I'm as gentle as I possibly can be with them.   I've tried reseating the cables, cleaning the connectors, etc... nothing helps. I can "fix" it temporarily by reaching up and using my...

...one you can use instead is "agent ransack" - google it .. make sure it's set to search in hidden/system folders/files. Search in c:\windows\inf\*.inf (the windows driver definition database cache) for "files containing:", in my case for the first Xonar hardware ID string...

I just installed the new beta drivers also. I immediately brought up foobar, set it to ASIO output and queued up some flac.   I have to say, I never thought a driver revision would make much of a difference, but I agree with most of the other posters about this - it's a tremendous...

Quote: Originally Posted by steviebee The sheer & blissful state of being that is Head Fi Novelty Corp, Inc. All part of the fun. haha, exactly. I think everyone here has an obsession with trying anything - it's the tinkering mentality. Look at some of those crazy tip...

Quote: Originally Posted by Kclone or if you want to spend some money, get the Minibox-E+ amp. I'm already using these out of a xonar essence (which has a good headphone amp built in) most of the time. I guess it's weird that I use IEMs at home, but I like the isolation they...

Quote: Originally Posted by wuwhere Interesting. Would ear muffs work too? Hmmm, I don't see why not. The point is just to compress your ears against your head. Actually, ear muffs would probably be more comfortable, and there wouldn't be a dangling chord. I'll have to try that...

...my ears (positioned a little to the back, to press my ears down a bit) while I had my etys in and I was shocked that the bass presence of the music *dramatically* increased. Not only that, but it changed the texture of sound to make it much, much warmer and punchier without losing any detail...

...separate driver in the Shures. Whether it's more "detailed" is kind of hard for anyone to perceptually tell. As for playing with graphs... like I said, the harmonic resonance peaks are higher, but the base signal is cleaner. *shrug* I doubt either makes a difference perceptually, to be honest.

Quote: Originally Posted by kwkarth In that application, (IEM) a single driver is all that is required. You're not moving enough "air" to require multiple drivers and adding multiple drivers and crossovers is needless complication, expense, and marketing breakthrough. Multiple drivers...

...certain ranges of lossless samples from various songs, looking for certain details in songs. I heard them extremely readily (including nuances of *voice* - mids) with the Etymotics, where I often couldn't perceive them at all with the Shures... **even** when equalizing them to deemphasize...

...A line from warmth/bass to clarity/detail is probably: e500 <--> TF <--> Etymotics The difference is significant, though. The e500s have ***WAAYY*** more bass and FAR less detail while the Etymotics have WAY less bass (almost 0 without EQ'ing it) and WAY more detail. I can only guess the...

People.... look at the graph again. The Ety's have the *lowest* distortion on that graph! See the first huge spike? Notice the tinge of red that's overlayed by the yellow at points? That's the Triple Fi line, which was rendered before the Ety's yellow line - they're both there though. And...