Why is it that female singers are so heavily featured in reviews and demonstration rooms at shows? Note that none of them are Lita Ford or Joan Jett, but lots of Joni Mitchell and Norah Jones types.

I've searched hi and low trying to find how to post feedback for a buyer but so far I've yet to find it. Can someone direct me to that function and can a moderator or administrator "pin" that to the the appropriate forum? So frustrating.

I was watching a re-run of Becker the other day and he went to the local electronics store to maybe buy a new TV or get his repaired since it died. When he met the salesman, he showed him a tube (to indicate how old his TV was, apparently), and it looked an awful lot like a 300B. I have no idea...

I have a vintage Akai receiver in a secondary system where I use a small Sony mp3 player connected to an "aux" input for playing music. The sound doesn't seem that good to me so I'm wondering if I could use my Dragonfly Red to play music from a laptop? Would the amp in the Dragonfly cause issues...

I didn't see a thread or even posts about this but maybe because it's a new thing. Anyway, it looks like someone is Kickstarting a headphone that purports to have a vacuum tube built in to it as well as a DAC. I'll not list all the details but this site does so if you're interested. Seems like...

Chances are all these things have been discussed somewhere, but maybe not all in the same thread so this is an attempt to do that. If it's been done, my apologies. I was thinking about some of the silly things I've heard about or read over the years that made me scratch my head, and the one that...

I was reading an article today about someone's opinion of when the "golden age" of hi-fi took place, and I read something that I didn't know about and may have been where the whole idea of burn in started. Seems in the early 70's, some stereo manufacturers started exaggerating the WPC of their...

How does one bump their item so it doesn't get buried and how does one close or show a listing as "sold"?

I didn't want to put this in the Headphone forum because it's not asking for info or looking for replies, but to simply talk about my new headphones. I apologize for the length (said no man ever). :beyersmile: It all started several years ago when I became aware of a major sales outlet of many...

I've had a few things in various areas of the For Sale section and so far, all I get are offers bordering on low balls. What gives? The items are similarly priced to other ones or to ones that have sold and I've even included extras, yet no one is willing to even get close to the asking price...

It looks like ALO is introducing a new, very powerful amp and as with most of their stuff, it's expensive. Some will say for what you get in terms of power it's not bad but it's still A LOT (you can't spell "a lot" without ALO) of money. Also, who wants or needs an amp that can drive 4...

I commute by bus and over the past week or so, I've noticed that when I start listening in the morning, I usually turn the volume down because it seems just a little too loud, yet in the afternoon, I turn it back up because it seems too low.    In the morning when I'm preparing for work, I'm...

I've decided to get a really nice pair of headphones in the $1000 range but wasn't about to spend that kind of money without hearing them first. After much reading of reviews both professional and personal, graphs and charts of frequency response, square wave measurements, etc, I had narrowed my...

Here's the deal. I fully intend to buy 1 of 3 headphones but because of circumstances out of my control, I can't listen to them locally before buying until after the new year but I want to get this done before Christmas. One thought I had, was to order one of each from different sellers knowing...

I'm kind of in the dark about DACs but I do know my sound card is supposed to have a pretty good on on-board. Based on the specs below, do you think I would hear a noticeable difference if I had an outboard DAC like a Schiit Bifrost or comparable? Here's a link to the page about my current...

Since I'm now employed (finally), I'm looking at acquiring a second set of headphones and I'm contemplating the LCD2 but there's no way I'm spending that kind of money without listening to some and that's where you come in. I'm looking for someone in the area who has a pair and would be willing...

Why does burning in seem to result in better sound 99% of the time? (It's 100% of the time from what I've read but I wanted to allow some room for a difference).

I bought and have now sold a pair of HD600's that had different colored drivers, one light and one dark, but they sounded the same. I've read that are supposedly differences in drivers depending on what color they are. Accordingng to Sennheiser there is no difference between drivers except...

I was watching the outstanding show How It's Made and they had a segment on making audio tubes. The company where they filmed was KR Audio so I checked them out on-line and holy heck are the tubes expensive. A matched pair of 300B's or 2A3's are $525.00! That's just crazy. I really like that...

Been a big fan of this band for a long time and saw these on their website. If nothing else, they look pretty interesting.   Tech Info: Speaker Diameter: 50MM Magnet Type: NdFeB Impedence: 32ohm Frequency: 18-20,000 hz Max Input power: 100mW Cable Type: OFC Cord Length: 1.2M...

I searched with a couple of different key words and didn't find anything similar so I apologize if there is a older thread about this. I was curious to know what kind of system folks here use to keep track of the number of hours a component/headphone has been used? In just about every For Sale...

Looks promising. Grant Fidelity Tube DAC-09 launched | Grant Fidelity Home Audio If you have been a fan of music stored on your computer these days, this DAC will bring the life out of your music! Among all sorts of solid state DAC on the market today, the Grant Fidelity tube DAC-09...