ok all that sounds good, except the weight - one of the best things of all about the GS-1000e is their lightness on my head, can almost forget I'm wearing them.

nearly 4200 pages here... hmm...... Ok if someone can give me the TLDR digest please :relaxed: : I've had a pair of GS-1000e headphones for several years and like them a lot, even though they are clearly not neutral. Driving them unbalanced from an RME ADI-2 FS. What differences might I...

Peter Tyson will soon have an Open-Box AH-D9200 for sale.... :wink: I would have to admit it wasn't as bad as the truly infamous AH-D7100 of about 10 year ago.

Just bought a pair of Denon AH-D9200s..... and after 48 hours they are going back to the seller for a refund (thanks to UK distance selling regs). Seriously, they sound broken. Ok on pop rock where they have lots of punch and impact and can really get into the groove. But on classical and...

Grado GS-1000e. Can't decide between it and 20yr old Denon AH-D5000 which I prefer. They both play music, unlike some recent uber-hi-end headphones I've been trying recently which sounded ghastly by comparison to either.

£900. P/X from dealer will be as good.

£950 ono

reduced to £1000 UKP.

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Highly regarded Planar Magnetic headphone..... I I am 2nd owner, to try again to hear what the fuss is about with Planar Magnetics but I've reluctantly decided my 20-yr old Denon AH-D5000 are preferable to my old ears. https://danclarkaudio.com/ether2-system.html (NOTE: I think they only...

The best amp for Sennheiser HD-600/650/800 at not stupid money. Its a lovely little thing, like a piece of jewellery, produces glorious sound with high impedence phones - like the Sennheisers above or Beyerdynamic. https://brocksieper.com/en/portfolio/earmax-2/ I am not the first owner, and a...

Bought these approx 2 years ago for AudioAffair as New Old Stock as Sennheiser had discontinued them, now only make the HD800S... a shame I think as I think these are a livelier and more engaging listen than the HD800S which I had before. Since then though - I've hardly used them, maybe 20...

I've got that recording too, and while I admire Petrenko's determination to totally avoid hysteria and over-sentimentality... its just too straight for me. But thankfully, it is far prefereble than the opposite extreme - highly praised but to my ears way-over-the-top milk-every-moment...

Well, clearly not then.   But I made a bit of a discovery.  My vortexbox has a 12V 5A power adaptor. If I move it to a seperate AC wall socket, rather than the power distribution block which all the hifi usually shares.... the problem seems to go away.   Hmmm.   Still think I might try a...

I will probably get round to that, but just wondering if anyone has a theory on what could be the cause?

Eh, that's what I am doing. 

Hello - I have been hugely enjoying a new pair of HD800S for a couple of weeks. I think I might have found my final headphone but for one small but annoying issue - they are singing to me!   If I use them with the 4-pin XLR cable from my Oppo HA-1, I am getting a very faint singing/whistling...

  I reckon Chailly's 3rd with the Concertgebouw is one of the greatest recordings of anything ever. Its magnificent from beginning to end.   But their 9th.... I think they were on mogadon that day.  I just find it slow & dull.     Interestingly (well kind of) I saw the Concertgebouw perform...

  Turns out he's recorded more than half of them, mostly in 1980s I think. The set above is very good. He even conducts on this disc...

Any opinions of Francois Frederic Guy for Beethoven?  he first came to my attention when his recording of the Hammerklavier came tops in a BBC Radio 3 survey of available recordings, he since done a complete set live http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Zigzag/ZZT333   (complete bargain price...

^ her Mozart K310 on that set is sublime.  As are the Brahms Violin Sonatas with Augustin Dumay  Can't believe she's in her 70's now. 

Not many Shostakovich fans around here then?  

http://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/shostakovich-the-complete-symphonies-vasily-petrenko-royal-liverpool-philharmonic-orchestra/0730099111140   Apologies if it turns out if this is only available in UK or Europe..... CD quality download of a very positively reviewed set (both performances &...

Ok - I tried to upgrade to FW 2.2, followed the instructions to the letter, I've done it before from original as shipped version 1.3 to 2.0 no problem - but now my X5 is dead and all it will do is show "system error!" in red letters. I've tried resetting with a pin, tried to start upgrade...

Hey- someone call the animal cruelty society!   Here's the full thing....