The new Shure SE210s sound awesome, and are very comfortable, and the new black foam sleeves are excellent. However, when I take them off for cleaning (a frequent duty) the "nozzle barb" on the earphone rips up the inside of the sleeve pretty badly, even to the point of making one sleeve...

Am just about done with revising my penny-pinching 5.1 home theater system which will feature Athena AS-B2s in front, the AS-C1 in center, and my carried over AR sub. Now as for the surrounds, I have a few options: A) get AS-B1s, $115, (the conventional choice) to match the voices of the...

I checked the search function and found only vague mentions plus Jan Meier's brief comments... Does anyone own these and if so how do they compare to say Grado SRs or the Sennheiser 497? thanks, des

Huh? A package of 3 pairs of foamies for the ER6i from Ety is $14!!! That same price will buy you 5 triple flanges for the 6i (and those should last much longer than the foamies) and it can also get 8 pairs of foamies for the older ER6. Why the foamie price inflation for the ER6i? If these...

HD600s, 5 months past warranty, blown transducer. $157.50 plus shipping to repair!!! Perhaps the "world's best headphone" should have a longer warranty, especially with those repair prices... These are the first pay of >$50 headphones that I've owned that have broken, and to call ownership...

Why does my portable amp plugged into the headphone jack of an Ipod or PCDP sound less loud than when it is plugged into the line out port of the device? Shouldn't an amped hp jack plus amp sound louder than unpowered line out plus amp? Noticed this recently and can't figure it out... des

My somewhat more than 2 year old (i.e. past warranty) HD600s have a shorted transducer. Anyway, no warranty, need Senn to fix. Anyone have any idea how much this'll cost? Friend at electronics lab verified there is a short, says transducer needs to be replaced. des

Per the vox populi at Epinions: http://www.epinions.com/elec-Audio-H.../sort_dir_~des 10. KSC 55 ($20) 09. Panasonic RP-HS9 ($10) 08. Sony MDR E818LP Ear-bud Headphones ($6) 07. Koss KSC-35 Headphones ($30) 06. AKG Acoustics K 141M Headphones ($79) 05. Sony MDR W08L Vertical...

Hello folks, I have gradually realized that my Senn HD 202s are fairly unpleasant, and my Ipod does not drive anything over 32 ohm impedance fairly well. So my excellent KSC35s, idiosyncratic V6s, and massive HD 280s are all sort of on the reserve list for now. Not to mention the needy and...

Posted this on headphones forum but its roughly 50/50 amps and cans --- mod can decide where to put it... I was one of the hardy volunteers who worked the NY session of the Headroom tour, which was held in bucolic Tarrytown. Attendance was heavy---Tyll said the most attendees of any of the...

What's this "Have a very nice Memorial Day, everyone." mailer I.D.? I don't remember this change for any other holiday; is this a new feature or someone's (admittedly innocuous) hacking?

Hello all--- ER6 has seen a lot of exposure on this site so I won't go into TOO much detail! Basically track down DGS's review for the definitive comparison between the ER6 and the ER4. As a certified cheapskate, I would never pay more than $200 for earphones (well, got the HD600s for $210...)...

Yes, there is life beyond the D25! All the hardcore lads here are always telling all of us to get the venerable Sony, named after a Klingon battlecruiser and manufactured of depleted uranium coated titanium alloys. Sure, it produces enough milliwatts to power a small town, and it has a certain...

Intro: Like Melville's Ahab, I have sought these mammoth phones for long months; studying reviews, analyzing pictures, getting skewered by 890 fanatics in my posts…but not until now have I had the chance to hear the Philips 890s, Philips Nimitz-class giant headphones. Thanks to the generosity of...

Hello all--- when strolling through my local Kmart on Saturday, I stopped by the audio department on a whim. Immediately a huge stack of Philips 890s caught my eye!! Kmart headphones are normally a pile of crap, low end Koss, Sonys and Pansonics, so I was pretty amazed to see decent phones...

I am using winamp instead of MS CDPlayer and generally appreciate the greater range of options and neat plug ins of Winamp. However, the program is less rock solid than CD Player and frequently gives crackles whenever the processor is suddenly stressed. Also, even worse, occasionally on some...

Hmm, looking at Philips UK and Netherlands sites, it looks like the 890 is now the highest numbered headphone listed. All info on the 910s has been pulled. Perhaps it's not in production any more or being redesigned?

According to Epinions: 1) Advent AW770 Wireless phones ($75!!! a bargain for the #1 ranked headphone.) 2) Sennheiser HD...535 (betcha were expecting a different number, weren't ya? ) 3) Sony MDR DS5100 Virtual Dolby Headphones (like a little home theater in your head...The most...

Hello all! I live in a NYC apartment with a girlfriend whose taste in music is 180 degrees away from mine. I get to let the ol home theater system rip less than 10 hrs/week. Front end is a 75W/channel Onkyo and I'm using AR surrounds and sub that are just fine. My fronts and center are less...

I was wondering how much power this puts out. I emailed Logitech and their tech support states that the jack is unamplified and basically puts out only as much power as one's soundcard (an SB Live 5.1 in my case). However, the 3dSoundSurge.com review states that the jack is amplified. Does...

Hmm, powering headphones is as baffling a subject to me as the Knicks at the moment, so I'd thought I would publicly admit my ignorance and plead for help... First, my Sony DFJ61 puts out ".5 mW + .5 mW" through its headphone jack. Why are there 2 numbers? As there is a post up about some 20...

Review of Sennheiser HD280s (LONG) Description: Senns newest set of heavy duty professional closed phones, to be distinguished from the Senn 202s and 212s, which are newer closed phones based on the 4x7 series of open design phones. The 202s and 212s are also lighter than the 280s, less...

Hello all--- I just bought a pair of SR125s and they sound amazingly better than my SR60s. Which is where the problems comes from---the 60s seem completely superseded. I still find uses for my Senn 497s and V6s, but the SR60s are in danger of joining the "dust gathering pile" where the Senn...

As I have run out of Dream Theater albums to buy, I have started samplng other prog metal outfits with generally interesting results---Shadow Gallery, Symphony X, but I admit Lemur Voice baffles me! After reading near-orgasmic reviews on Amazon and the somewhat more level-headed All Music...

and try to figure why they made the Plug so crappily. I'm listening to the modified Plugs right now....For those not in the know, you basically melt a hole through drugstore purchased foam earplugs and use them instead of the too small foamies that Koss supplies. This increases the bass by a...