I asked knowledgeable people about how to enjoy classical music.  Ask a head-fier.  They're very helpful.

These are all equally wonderful.  Make sure you spend more than $500 on amp though. 

There has to be a reason for why all headphones seem to max out at 50mm drivers. 

So, I've got a cheap $50 amp that does 4 channels. It works for my needs.  Power is fine, sound is fine.  It's god awful aesthetically.    Ideas on doing a cheap and easy transfer into a nicer enclosure and controls?  I want to keep the basic functionality the same: - 4 knobs in...

  The ART Headamp4   it's cheap and it works.  

I want to buy the D7000, but it's a pretty expensive introduction to Denon.  Instead, I was thinking I could just get a D2000 and swap out the wood from a D5000?   Are the stock D5000 cups available for sale anywhere? Either from Denon or from people who did those 3rd party wood mods? ...

I got the impression on here that more people prefer the 990s over the 880s. At least from all the sigs I've seen, it seems that way.   If I didn't have bass cans, I'm pretty sure the battle would be between the 770 and 990. I think the 770 sounds better.  (a little) The 990 seems a...

I apologize to those of you that find this obvious. To anyone else looking for a solution, this is cheap and it works.    ISSUE:  I own 2 headphones and I'm tired of unplugging / plugging them.  I want to have both headphones always plugged in.  I wanted a switch  that controlled whether...

I've been looking at the HP4, but really need something for 2 channels. Something prettier would be nice too.   HP4 is $120 retail, and about $60 on ebay, so near that price range? Ideas?

Does it exist? I was looking at Denons, but it seems that those are also sibilant?   I get really irritated when the "S" sound pierces your ears. 

My heavy rotation cans are: 1. DT-880 (for most occasions) 2. XB-700 (for when I get the bass itch)   Willing to try new and exciting stuff.  I like country, indie rock and twee pop, hip hop, club electronica and idm, ambient, piano, classic rock, folk, space rock / shoegaze, math /...

I would love to see headphones classified into 5 basic sound signatures. 1.  uphill  (light bass, heavy treble)  2.  downhill  (heavy bass, light treble) 3.  V  (heavy bass, light mids, heavy treble) 4.  inverted V  (low bass, heavy mids, low treble) 5.  flat    I just reject this...

Wow, so I've been ordering headphones left and right off of Amazon trying to A/B and return whatever doesn't make the cut.   Now I know that I've been doing this all wrong.  Let me explain.   So far, like many of you, I've been trying to find the headphone with the right balance of highs...

I just got an Asus Xonar U1 off ebay for about $60.  I know it's an old card but... HOLY MOTHER OF GOD.   This is a supremely good solution for people who: 1. listen primarily to computer music (mp3, flac, etc.) 2. need a clean audio source (my onboard realtek audio had some EMI)...

I used to own HD-650s, but sold them because I didn't feel the price was justified. I own HD-595s now.  They are really awesome for vocal, classical, jazz.  However, IMO, Sennheisers are not good for urban, modern music.  Particularly not good at doing hard, repetitive, thumpy percussion.  I...

i thought that 500 was the maximum?

i'm sure this debate has been had before. but why would sennheiser deliberately cripple the sound of their HD650 with a crap cable? am i saying that there's no difference in aftermarket cables? no... but has ANYONE done any blind A/Bing? there must be a bunch of hd650 owners. why don't...

i got the ASIO dll from the japanese page. i got the ASIO 4 All control panel. i loaded the asio dll into the winamp plugins directory, and now i get output that's slowed down and extremely staticky. this happens in both winamp2 and winamp5 i used the MAD plugin, and without the MAD...

ok. so you hate that EQ on the ipod don't you? if you don't know what i'm talking about, or if you never noticed some distortion when you have the EQ on, then i think your ears are pretty bad. anyway, i always HATED the EQ on the ipod. i just couldn't fathom how these guys at apple made all...

this is my first post. head-fi is evil. i've been reading for 5 hours at a time, several days straight. i want to just buy the right gear and never have to come back. help me! this all started with my friend borrowing my sony v900s, and then realizing that he wanted to buy them off of me. it...