They probably sound awful with music, but I have noticed in most movies or TV shows, the same headphones used for any helicopter pilots that may be depicted....They have a certain shape to the outside cups....rather large, plain looking and rounded.....Does anyone know the particular make and...

All I can find online is info about upgrading the cord on the K340s to Oxygen free copper cords, and they say my stock cord is "lamp cord"....My question is, what is so called lamp cord made from? Is it copper? I read online some years ago that the K340s have steel in the stock cord and not even...

You-Tube has a TV show series video that shows how headphones are made, featuring the AKG K702s..... (I mistakenly said they were the 701s in the thread title, but can not edit the title....) Surprisingly simple really.... basically a copper coil vibrating a plastic sheet.... Video is at....  ...

I noticed from pics found on the internet, that the AKG K701s have on the box "Premium Class", and the Sennheiser HD595 have on the box "High end". Apparently those 2 terms are the new European DIN labels for the sound reproduction quality categories that replace the older DIN "Hi-Fi"...

I have for a long time been using my Grado SR60s first model, not the i version for my iPOD, and my wonderful AKG K340s in my AMP, CD-Tuner setup. For fun I got out the stock Apple ear buds that came with my iPOD and gave them a try again with my iPOD.....WOW, they really suck now. A bit...

I would have to say that the AKG K340 Electrostatic-Dynamic Systems headphone should be included in the top 5 most innovative headphone designs ever..... What other headphone designs could be included in the top most unique and innovative designs? By design i mean engineering and method of...

I think my AKG K340 headphones sound great with my circa 1984 yamaha A-1000 Integrated Amp.....(This is the old A-1000 Yamaha amp, not the newer model 1000 DSP yamaha amp...) When using the K340s with the amp, the volume knob on the amp is very sensitive, i only have to move the volume knob a...

Yep, I saw this morning that my 20 year old Monster RCA cables from both my CD player and my Tuner to my AMP were in the wrong direction.....(Grounding and shielding are the issues and reasons for the arrows on the cables apparently....I have never heard any "noise" from my setup though.) I did...

I have never listened to Hip-Hop music....I did not even know until yesterday the Dr. Dre was a Hip-Hop artist.....that being said, after reading about the Beats here online I came to the conclusion that the "Beats" are all about the Hip-Hop music scene, and that is what they are made for...

I have been using my AKG K340 Electrostatic-Dynamic hybrid headphones since November 1986 and love them....I am curious as to exactly how the "Electrostatic" part work? What moves to make that great Treble, and what makes that move and vibrate etc??

I have an older Yamaha CD player, model CDX-730 that was introduced in 1989,....it uses the Burr-Brown PCM61P DAC in it.....That model has a digital optical output, so I have the option of using that to hook it up to a dedicated DAC....I am a newbie at the component DAC world.....   Can I...

Not that Best Buy is the best place for high end audio equipment, but I was recently at my local best Buy, and for fun I decided to look at what CD players they had.....there was not one to be found in the entire store! Some DVD and Blue -Ray players that can play CDs etc, but not one player...

I have the Yamaha CDX-730 CD player thats 18 bit, 8X, and was curious what the very first CD player was that was 18 bit, 8X, and from my online research it apparently was the Sony CDP-707 ESP from 1988....I remember when it came out it got rave reviews in magazines such as CD Review etc and...

...at least in OS X. I got the OS X "Play" music player program a couple of weeks ago, but just tried it....I used some AIFF and some Apple Lossless files in it, and it sounds noticeably better, especially in the highs, than iTunes with the same lossless tracks. It's about the same difference of...

I am curious if what is left of the Burr-brown designs after TI bought the company in 2000, if any of those designs are in any current stand alone CD players? I just found out last night that my Yamaha CDX-730 CD player uses dual Burr-Brown DACs, and from what I hear, Burr brown DACS are very...

I had been hearing my varied electronic music collection using my Grado SR60s....Yesterday I burned some of my electronic music to CD-R to play on my regular CD player with my AKG K340s....I had not heard any of my electronic music through them before then. Wow, it's hard to describe how the...

Go to...   http://homepage.mac.com/marc.heijligers/audio/ipod/comparison/measurements/measurements.html   Pretty much confirms that the older Wolfson DAC iPODS are better than the newer Cirrus Logic DAC ones.

I decided to try out the FLAC format.....I converted an uncompressed AIFF file to FLAC....I usually have my music in 192kbs AAC format if I burn from my own CD, and the 256kbs AAC of the iTunes store if i buy it there....I played the new FLAC file and compared the same track to the 192kbs AAC...

The 1973 album "Everything You Always Wanted to hear On The Moog, But Were Afraid To Ask" has never been put onto commercial CDs, and is hard to get in digital form, it is not in iTUNES, etc. I found a link online to it's 4 tracks in AIFF format. It was made by the person at the site from a...

I love electronic music, and just discovered "Shuttle358".... interersting electronic music. Makes use of so called "electronic noise" in a very interesting manner....Sounds great with my Grado SR60 headphones with their nice treble response. My favorite Shuttle358 track is "Floops" from the...

Maybe it's the Texas Instruments TAS3001C sound chip in my computer coupled with the Soundsticks and iSUB....the Soundsticks are said to be designed using Parametric Equalization, and the Texas Instruments TAS3001C chips claims that is used in its design also.....They just sound...