Tried the rec thread to no avail. Been trying to find some headphones for travel, decent/good isolation, and not super-bulky (no iem's they irritate my ears with extended use).  Looking to spend up to 2-300, but can stretch that to $500 if it's really compelling.  I know senn hd25-1 II's seem to...

Not sure where this goes since this is a headphone forum, but i have a set of bookshelf speakers i've had for about 8 months, revel m12's.  Never moved them around, no kids around poking them.  Randomly when i decided to clean the apt and took off the grills to clean them, I noticed a small 1cm...

kind of want to get some portable closed headphones for studying at the library, and the etymotics i've had for years are kind of irritating when plugged in for hours on end. so far the audio technica es7 and esw9 have caught my eye but from reading a decent number of posts it seems they are...

anyone want to? otherwise i guess i'll send it to grado to get it fixed. i prefer to keep the 1/8" jack, thanks!

Ok my SR60's sound won't come out of the left side, and was contemplating a repair myself via a cheap recable, or just spending the $25 to get it repaired from Grado. I like the headphones and don't really need to upgrade since i use them with the comp, but $25 sounds steep for a $70 set...

yea i know the gigabeat isnt out yet, but it looks pretty slick. The vision m is already established to be a great player, but the UI for the gigabeat looks pretty nice and the player itself looks more elegantly designed, except no one will really know until two more months. which would you guys...

anyone receive their creative vision:m from crutchfield? Im guessing they are extremely backordered with that $50 off coupon, but just wondering if anyone actually received theirs yet.

Ok, I posted a ic on my hf-1's before, but never really ended up following up on offers since I keep reading about how nice they sound and am having a hard time parting with them. I have yet to open them up, and was wondering after all of the hype seemingly has died down, how much better they...

I was thinking about buying a mac mini (dont flame me i know its limitations), but was wondering if there are any good cd ripping programs like eac or cdex? I have some scratched up cd's and the data recovery and track quality info is pretty helpful.

i just got a set of er6i's and think that they are pretty nice, except my ears get kind of irritated. i tried using the foamies and while they are a lot more comfortable, they seem like a pain to get a good seal, and the bass response seems to be reduced. does anyone have any experience with the...

which sleeve am i supposed to use for a canare 4e6s mic cable, blue or black? also this is probably a dumb question, but how do you keep the "retractable metal sleeve" to stay out, and not retract

I have a set of grado flatpads that my stupid roomates dog got a hold of. One pad got stretched out so that it falls off constantly while the other one is ok. Is there any way to get it smaller to make it fit snugly again?

My mom asked me to find her a "cute" cd mini system that costs $500 or less. I know about the tivoli system, which i think is cool, but i read horror stories about the cd player. is there anything else that is similar? I have the denon um31 which is very nice, but i was wondering if there is...

is there another forum similar to this one but with the focus on speakers rather than headphones?

anyone know a relatively cheap bookshelf speaker choice for the denon microsystem? the original speakers are ok, but does anyone have experience with how other speakers work with them? i was interested in the kef coda 70, b&w 303/302, or psb 1b or 2b? I was looking to spend no more than $250. I...

I am looking for a relatively cheap discman to use to take in to the ceramics studio. ANyone know of any that are relatively rugged but not too expensive. Any experience with the new sony sports ones? I know they are clunky and probably dont sound the greatest, but is it at least reliable? I've...

what does that mean? "Locking Type" split center pin. and how does that work? I read that description about some ic's and have no clue what that means.

whats the best budget amp for the sr225's? I listen to mostly pearl jam stp and medeski martin and wood. How much of a difference does it make, and how does it change the sound? I used mostly the sr60's and the difference from those to the 225's seems moderate (from what I can hear, tighter bass...

I've been trying to compare how the different pads sound just now, and from what I can tell, the bowls seem to have no bass? i dont know if this is right, but my sr60's with flats on sound better than my sr225's with the bowls on (almost bassless). When I first got the sr225's i used only flat...

I got a used sony es cd changer, ca80es for pretty cheap ($60). I was wondering what kind of money I would have to spend to get much of a difference in sound quality? Has anyone compared this to the marantz's or nad 541i 542, or rotels (rcd-02), or would they be similar? I'm just hesitant to pay...

How do to the 225 housings compare to those of the 60's, besides the metal vs plastic screen? Some pictures I see, the 225's look bigger, ie they look a lot taller (thicker I guess is another way to describe it). Other pics they look the same size. On the purchasing page for the replacement...

I have been trying to burn a copy of ben harper's diamonds on the inside. I found out after multiple burnings of cd's with random pops that it is cd protected. I used EAC and the mp3's and wav's i ripped sound fine with no issues, but if i try to use those wav files to burn onto a new cd, track...

Right now I have the sr60's and was wondering what would be the most cost effective upgrade. I listen to mostly rock (stp pearl jam) and acid jazz (Medeski Martin +Wood) or blues (keb mo). Right now I'm using a sony 715 which sounds ok i guess, seems ok to me, but then again I've never used a...

I don't know which forum this is supposed to go under, so i'll put it here. I've been trying to encode my stuff onto mp3s in preparation of getting a hd-dap. I've been using cdex so far, and it seems ok, but I'm wary of getting a bunch of skips. I've been backing up some cd's that I've had a...

Does anyone have any idea what kind of release schedule hdd dap's run on? I don't know if I should wait for the next product cycle or not. I was about to buy a Dell DJ today, but it's been out for 6 months. Realistically, I can wait a few more months, especially considering I will be out of town...