I'm in a situation where I have sold about all of my equipment to fund a new setup. I still have my dearly beloved Audio-Technica's and those are keepers. I don't have the chance to test much because high end headphone equipment isn't a big thing in Finland. Also, by ordering from abroad I can...

Hello everyone. I was turning on my Luxman SQ-N100 just moments ago. There was quite a lightshow at one of the EL84's, all other tubes seemed fine. Naturally I turned it off after couple of seconds, to avoid any further damage. Any idea what could cause that? There was sort of purplish and...

I'm planning to get an USB to optical/coaxial-converter. The thing is that I'm not able to get my amp to useable levels unless I reduce the volume from my PC by 50% first. Now I started thinking if the converter affects this somehow? Any thoughts? Basicly it only re-clocks and possibly upsamples...

Ordered this from PriceJapan, and was worth of every euro I payed. Greatly enjoying this with my Audio-Technica's. Enjoy the pics. = )                

I'm eagerly waiting for my ATH-W3000ANV at the moment, and also looking to take ATH-W1000X to a new level. From single ended amps, I have mostly considered Yamamoto HA-02, which should be a good match. But I'm also interested in balancing and I have my eyes on a balanced Blossom BLO-0299. These...

So I have a pair of these as the main speakers of my home theater system. I really love them in that role, but when I try to listen to music... The sound just isn't involving at all, bass lacks force, sort of sounds hollow I think. Instrument placement also sounds sort of wrong in depth. Source...

Anyone here with even some experience from those three? Luxman's DAC is supposedly pretty good, but would the amp section be superior to M1HPA? Just calculating my options here... I'm really in love with my current setup, but this is head-fi. :D

At the moment I've reduced the volume from my soundcard's settings, my media player's volume is at 100% all the time as I naturally use the amp volume knob for adjusting. Is this a good way to do this? I would love to keep everything maxed before the amp, but I really can't. Now the soundcard...

So I'm buying a new amplifier withing couple of weeks. I'm planning to go with the M1HPA, would suit my desk with the M1DAC I own and from what I've read, it's a clear upgrade from X-Can V8P also. But I see Burson having quite a bit of users, someone even driving HD800 with it, so it must have...

So, some time ago it started to sound like something is wrong. When there´s even a small impact to the amp, lest say I´m tapping the desk with my finger, there was this "chime" sound on the right channel. Other than that, everything was cool. Today I tried swapping the tubes, and it clearly...

My system is the following:   Musical Fidelity M1 DAC Musical Fidelity X-Can V8P Audio-Technica ATH-W1000X   Currently I´m using pretty standard cables, taken from about 15 years old Technics receiver. Japan made quality though... = ) But very basic. I´ve been considering Nordost...

So I have this soundcard at the moment. In the future I plan on getting a separate DAC and hooking it to Maya 44 via toslink. But at the moment I´m wondering the thing in the title, anyone?

Well, I used to listen my music with Koss portaPro, plugged into PC or home stereo amplifier. When I got my current system (Audio-Technica ATH-W1000X and Musical Fidelity X-Can V8P) and tried to compare, the difference wasn´t that huge to my ears. Definitely there, but not as much as I maybe...

So, bit of a leap from internal soundcard and Koss portaPro. Obviously, I can´t do much of a compare to anything. Compared to portaPro, they have way more accurate sound. A tad brighter overall tone. Bass however isn´t lacking one bit for my taste either. The build quality of the phones is...

So, at the moment I´m working my ass off to get the money for my first decent set-up... Hopefully getting the purchase done in month or two. Amps I´ve considered: Corda Cantate 2 Musical Fidelity X-Can v8 Both have built-in DAC as I know. Pretty much required because I´d like to be...

So, I´m considering to buy Audio-Technica´s phones. Perhaps W1000 or W1000X. The thing is that I have no chance to try them on, here in Finland next to no-one sells them in the first place, not even talking about having them in stock. I´ve read that they´re comfortable, but as I know, the...

I read from this forum that iTunes is ****ty in converting. I´ve been ripping 100% scratch-free CD´s with it. From my (almost non-existing atm xD) equipment, the sound is satisfying of course, but could the conversion be done better with some other program? And is this worth it in any case? At...