Ok, so on the weekend I tried several Koss headphones with my Clip+, the "best" pair being 10+ year old UR-30s.  All of them distorted, although it was slightly more subdued in the UR-30s than the others.  None of them sounded like they were dishing out much more bass than the PK3s though, so I...

...except that it also distorts when plugged directly into the Revolution soundcard, and the Audiophile soundcard, and the Clip+.  I shall report back after I've tried some more experiments in a couple of days.   You'd think there'd be someone around these parts with the gear at hand who...

Curiouser and curiouser...   I've been testing with an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 which is pretty well regarded, as is the Sansa Clip+ which I'm also testing with.  My sound system, which is producing a distortion-free signal, is plugged into an M-Audio Revolution 7.1 soundcard.  When I plug...

Interesting!   I must admit, it does seem as though the distortion is part of the sample, but it's just bizarre that I can't hear it through speakers.  Looking at the waveform it's pretty close to a clean sine wave, but I don't know if that's a very reliable test.  So either it IS just the...

Thanks for your trouble, yeah it would be good to know for sure whether that drum sound comes out smooth on any earbuds, PK3 or otherwise.  Headphones for that matter.  It's a totally different timbre coming through my earbuds compared to speakers.  I just tried a different pair of speakers, and...

Thanks for testing CEE TEE.  I unpacked the new ones that came yesterday and they sound...   ...virtually identical.   They don't exhibit the occasional single-channel buzz that the other ones did, but that drum sample has the same overdriven distortion to it, which has now got me...

At first just the left channel would buzz/rattle occasionally, then it changed to the right, then back again.  This alternated for a month or so until they eventually settled down a bit.  When I play the audio clip above though, it's equally present in both channels and sounds more like...

Thanks for the replies - I don't suppose anyone's tried that audio file?  My other two pairs of (old/cheap/faulty) Sony earbuds also exhibit the same distorted kick sound when playing that clip, so I'm not sure if that's just par for the course with these cheaper buds or whether the PK3s are...

Hi all, new guy here.   I'm wondering if there are any PK3 owners that could confirm something for me.  I've been using mine for a couple of months, and am disappointed with their ability to cope with any amount of bass.  They rattle/buzz at certain frequencies, even at very modest levels...