Thanks to Andy & everyone that helped organized this meet. I'm pretty new to head-fi & it was awesome to see & hear all the equipment, as well as meeting everyone. Certainly glad we didn't turn around after getting a flat on the way up Thanks again!

Not 100% yet, but really going to try to make it.....sounds like it should be fun. I personally don't have much equipment (yet , but will try to bring the following if it'd help:Audio-gd Compass Grado sr225 HeadRoom Total BitHead AKG K271 MKII I haven't been to a meet before, but I'm...

I don't think I've seen this mentioned yet, but what sort of files are you listening to out of iTunes; AAC, Apple Lossless, MP3. If not lossless, what bit rate? I very often listen to 225's straight out of my MacBook & think they sound great, but all of my music is at least 320kbps. I used to...

I was recently re-ripping my entire CD collection to FLAC & came across something I really hadn't listened to since college: Sounded ridiculously good on my 225's.

I currently use the AKG K271 MKII with a Yamaha digital piano & think it sounds great. You should be able to find those at various places for ~ $150. I would agree that the Grado's would not be a good choice here; I briefly tried playing with my sr225's & it did not sound good straight out of...