Hi everyone, I'm back!  And my reference rig would still be my Lehmann clone + my Sennh HD650s! Why? I would need you guys and girls to suggest me a pair of closed-back, over-ear headphones for portable use, - "unamplified"!!! - (i.e. to be used with a smartphone in a library) that I...

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Hello,    Here I am again asking for suggestions...   I'd be willing to spend around 100-130 $/£/€ for a pair of low-impedance headphones that will work straight out of an iPod         Here are my experiences with higher-end headphones in brief, to give you some suggestion...

Hello, may someone help me? I can't figure out how to modify the titles of the threads in the sale/trade forums, while I see everybody else doing it all the time.   Thanks a lot

  Good evening everyone, I have a question for you guys, As digital sources, I currently own a NetBook (running Linux), an iPod Classic and an Arcam rDAC. Since my listening files are mostly CD rips (few Hi-Res albums in storage) I'd like to know whether getting an iPod Dock featuring...

Hello, a couple of weeks ago it happened that the Hi-Fi guy of a music store nearby asked me to tell him what I thought about a new piece of gear he had in demo.   Hey, no financial interest of any kind here, I am just a good client of his, he wanted to be sure the dealer did not give him a...

(EDIT) DISCLAIMER: this is just a listening guide, not a programming, nor an engineering nor a harmony lesson. I tried to keep the "scientific" part as brief as possible, mainly avoiding it, with the purpose of explaining everything in very poor words, just to make the reasons of some hopefully...

Hello, I've just started to listen to some electronic music, and I'd like to go deeper in that.   I've listened to some stuff by Klaus Schultze, the Tangerine Dream and the Chemical Brothers, and they suddently got my interest.    I shall warn you I come from the classical, pop and rock...

Hello,   I've never liked IEMs that much. I've always preferred FS headphones. I've always find those very uncomfortable, big plugs don't fit, smaller ones are too loose.   So I would like to try to get a pair of custom IEMs done, because of their high noise isolation. Even with FS...

Hello, I was trying to open a topic to see what's the most popular music genre here on head-fi today, and I've come to a problem. It's so hard to label music genres. If you want you can help me and then we'll open a poll, with a democratically-chosen labeling.   How to label Music...

EDIT: stupid mistake in the title. "trade off", not "better".... DISCLAIMER: I'm not English mother tongue and I haven't written such long stuff since long time ago. Just... Don't take my writing style for "prophetic" or "guru-ish" (sometimes I've been told so). My will is just to put on the...

Good morning everyone,   I was just wondering whether when it comes to HD files it is desirable or indeed necessary to have a balanced DAC, and/or a balanced headamp (even with the classic unbalanced out), or if unbalanced design is enough to tell the difference...    Any experiences in...

 Hi everybody, I'd like to buy an USB 2.0 external sound card So... In particular, it would be some USB-to-SPDIF 24bit/96KHz and/or USB-to-AESEBU interface.  Now... These interfaces work with MacOSX, no-driver-required. QUESTION: is it true that every audio interface that works on...

Hi guys,   I'm looking for something that can amp my HD650 with little money  straight from the USB out of my laptop...    I don't think I can afford something more than 250£/300€ at the moment.   I've seen these Audio-GD NFB11 and NFB12... what about them?   Have you got...

Hello everybody   I could listen to both these jewels for some time.   Therefore I could think about the most widespread commonplaces about them:   k701: too much highs, great stage but sometimes too artificial. HD650: too much bass, fleshy sound, soundstage so and so.   Well...

I'd be glad to hear his impressions. It's a funny thing: here I haven't found anyone who likes them both yet, but these two headphones seem to have THE SAME STRONG POINTS: female vocals, detail, stage... What? Thanks Edoardo

as in the title... Maybe this time I'll have more luck

...Do they work for sure on Linux/Ubuntu?

Hello, what about the Audio GD FUN, I like this all-in-a-box thing, but will it do any of the three things it is supposed to do well? I'd like to try it and couple it with some European headphone that (I don't know but I've been told) does not require anything of that special to shine... Such...

...Hello! What about the price of our beloved 33rpm LPs in London in this period? Time to buy or not? Shall I prepare my wallet?

Hello, An American user has just told me his interest for a Graham Slee amp I have put for sale. Will the British "230V" PSU work in his home? It's a Graham Slee Voyager Thank you

Hello, a friend of mine wants to balance a pair of HD800 but doesn't now what to do. would the other balanced cables, the ones for the HD600/650 fit or what? do they have some kind of plug or the changing of the cables requires any skills? who sells these cables?

...Any suggestions? Thanks Edoardo

Hello everybody, Does any German or European friend know a shop in Bayern München where I could try some GOOD German headphones in demo? ( from HD600 - DT880 - AKG701 upwards. yeah, upwards!) Edit: or if you know either a german forum where I can ask for it? Thank you

Hi, I'd LOVE to use an UbuntuStudio-driven notebook as a source, but cannot find the drivers of any decent external souncard or DAC I know. So I'm looking for a DAC or either a sound card firewire/USB 2.0 to optical/coaxial converter, price below 500€, that works with UbuntuStudio... Does...