I have been a long time reader of head-fi and went through a series of ~$100 IEMS after reading various threads. My first decent pair of IEMs were the Shure EC2s. I thought they were alright but I have unfortunately small ears so they would not stay in my ears (and I hadn't yet discovered comply...

I will most likely be getting an iPod touch when it comes out, but as you probably know its flash memory is lacking in size, so in order to fit most of my music and some videos I will need to compress the size of some of my songs. Using Audacity's compressor effect I get roughtly half the file...

I have Audio-Technica A700's and when using them on my computer (and ipod) everything is way to loud. The only way to make it decent is to have everything on the lowest setting. Do you know how I can make them quiter (computer more important than ipod)

This is kind of 2 questions: A) For gaming, mainly CS, I am looking for great positional headphones. But, I will also listen to music on them and from what I have read the a700's are considerably better in that respect from what I have read (sorry, I know there are already alot of threads...

I have the westone UM1's that I use with my iPod and with the sound really low or paused there is a little static sound. I also notice this with my old AKG's and Senheisser HD477's. I read around for a while and it looks like a sound attentuator or in line volume adjuster will do the trick. Is...