I've seen a few reviews on here in which the reviewers refer to the soundstage of a headphone as being linear, usually in pointing out a headphone's shortcomings. for the life of me I can't quite figure out what this means. My only guess is that the soundstage lacks depth. Someone please help me...

I read a lot of reviews on here, as well as other places, where people talk about spending uninterrupted hours on end listening to music through their headphones. I can only say that I have never been a marathon listener. I listen in small, bite-sized chunks usually less than an hour at a time...

I have to preface this question by stating that I'm not a DIYer, nor do I really have that great of a knowledge of electrical science, so forgive me if this sounds like a dumb question...   But would it be possible, or worthwhile I should say, to create a planar magnetic headphone with...

So, I've been living with the HifiMan HE-400 for a few months now with MBP>Fiio E17/E9K>HE-400 being my signal chain, but while I like the 400 with cetain genres-- mainly EDM and Jazz, I find that the imbalance in the mids is a little off putting to me and I find myself craving something more...

The title pretty much says it all. Amazon has the DT880 at $249 at the moment and I'm thinking of buying it while the price is still low, but I'd like to know if my Fiio E17 portable amp will be powerful enough to drive it. Any takers?

I don't have a lot of prerequisites due to the fact that I will only be using these primarily for gaming. The only real criteria is decent sound quality, reasonably expansive soundstage, very comfortable, and $100 or less.

So up until this point I have mainly dealt with closed back headphones and IEMs. I started out with the Skullcandy Titans (I basically made an uninformed choice based on my price range and what was popular at the time), I then bought a pair of Phillips/O'neill Stretch (they're decent, but not...