I did a search for J-Rock (Japanese rock music) on Head-Fi; I was surprised how little turned up and even more surprised that the few dedicated threads in the Music forum have seen little if no activity for the last fifteen years. A lot has happened since then; the rise of the digital...

Interesting topic phrasing: "THE best female vocals? (your favorite female singers)" What is "best"? Sometimes the attraction in a voice is not technical perfect execution, but simply the timbre or even the glaring "imperfections" that make the vocals so appealing. E.g, one of my top favourite...

The Courettes - "Shake!"

The Reverend Peyton:

It is a red herring for most practical purposes. Any differences in mastering will make orders of magnitude more difference than the SACD vs CD format will do. Many SACDs are hybrid ones which contain both the SACD DSD layer as well as the CD PCM layer. Thus, assuming the same material mixed &...

Have you considered J-Rock? It is a very diverse genre with significant Jazz influences compared to Western rock. It also easily borders on J-Pop if you focus on the right bands. Just as one example of Jazz-flavoured J-Rock the band "tiny yawn" springs to mind:

Hitsujibungaku (羊文学). Moderately well-known band. Sits somewhere in between the pop, indie-rock and shoegaze genres. The singer-songwriter and lead guitarist Moeka Shiotsuka has a very unique voice and guitar phrasing.

Sir Lord Baltimore - "Hell Hound" (1970). Proto-metal band.

A lot of hard-rock and metal so far. How about something a little different: Wang Dang Doodle. Impossible to classify their music. Hip-hop, rock, electro-dance with a blues edge. Both MOMIJI (lead vocals, harmonica) and KAHORI (guitar) have a background in blues-rock and beat making. They write...

I have been exploring the Japanese music scene over the last couple of years (mostly Japanese rock & alternative rock, some blues and blues-rock too). What I found to work best in the end is YouTube. The trick is to get the AI recommendation algorithms to learn your preferences, which requires...

re:lapse "f" (dream-pop/shoegaze) and paranoid void "ukiyo" (math-rock)

Miyuna - Ikinakya (I have to live). Live performance. Only just 17 years old in this video. Writes virtually all her own songs.

ASTERISM - "Church" live in studio

If I'm correct no one in this thread has yet mentioned Miyuna (みゆな). A brilliant 22-year old Japanese singer-songwriter, writes the majority of her own material, mostly pop with a jazzy flavour at times: Here as a 17-year old:

Definitely HD430 pads; I have some of these exact same pads too for my HD250, which I bought from Sennheiser direct. For some time Sennheiser sold these (HD430 pads) as the official replacement pads for the HD250 linear once their original HD250 spare pads had run out. They are slightly...

GLIM SPANKY Cover of "Move Over" by Janis Joplin:

I can't speak for other makes, but vintage Marantz & Philips CD players with CDM radial-transports that skip can often do with replacement of the electrolytic caps used in the tracking & focus servo circuits. I think it is the increased ESR of the old caps that is causing issues. A simultaneous...

Hi sennsay, From my experience I would not be surprised if that 'buzz' is caused by a hair that has managed to partially work its way through the felt dust guard protecting the driver and is now "tickling" the driver membrane from the outside. I have seen that a lot on these Sennheisers...

Folks, I have returned to this thread (and head-fi) after a few years of absence! I'm working part-time now and have more spare time for these luxuries :wink: I have renovated quite a few HD540 and HD250 over the last three years, and it may be useful to share some tips re. replacement of...

Hi, A bit late to the party on this thread, but I have renovated quite a few Sennheiser HD540 and HD250 headphones. The HD250 also has additional foam (and felt) hidden inside the drivers that needs to be replaced. Often the cushions and flexible part of the head-band need replacing as well...

Audiophile USB cables are funny as well. Coax depends on whether they carry analog or digital, and when digital (under discussion here I assume) it depends on the protocol (Ethernet over coax, or S/PDIF etc.). Assuming the connection isn't totally bad due to corrosion etc, the key consideration...

Thanks for that gem oldmate, it made me smile :)

    Sorry about the double post, meant to quote Gamergtx260!   Works fine on the front USB port.  I am using a Seagate Backup Slim 500Gb, because of its minimalist small design, but predominantly because it is really quiet.  The drive needs to be a single FAT32 partition, and I am using...

Works fine on the front USB port.  I am using a Seagate Backup Slim 500Gb, because of its minimalist small design, but predominantly because it is really quiet.  The drive needs to be a single FAT32 partition, and I am using .wav files at 44.1kHz.  Note that FLAC is not supported through the...

Sounds promising.   Interesting: I didn't check the dimensions and had assumed the HD-AMP1 was the same size as the HD-DAC1.  The side-by-side photo shows it clearly to be bigger.