I recently won an auction for some b-stock DT-880s from Beyer's official eBay account. They're the older version, I'm not sure what year (they look like this.) They just arrived an hour ago, and I've barely begun the honeymoon stage, let along done any serious critical listening, but a few few...

I just ordered a mess of hospital grade power cords from Quail. Is using a 14AWG power cord (15A rating) on a Gilmore Lite DPS excessive? I just looked and the current one I'm using is 18AWG. As an aside, when speaking to cable professionals, they pronounce "AWG" as "ogg" like vorbis.

I've searched, but not turned up much info on this. When were the three* iterations of Sennheiser electrostatic headphones made, and in what quantities? I'm recalling the original Orph system being released in the early-to-mid 90s. Anyone know what the exact years of production were, and how...

Today Knuckledragger is a knucklehead. Today my rig has not sounded very good to me. Admittedly, I've been wading through some of my oldest mp3s, some of which are 128K and encoded with bladenc. However, over an hour ago I switched to recently-ripped FLACs, and they still don't sound very...

This news story is one lit cigarette away from a this ambient artist. (Note I had to use tinyURL because of head-fi's overly-zealous censor-bot.) My favorite bit: "I'm just going to watch it with the sound down, or I'll buy myself some decent headphones," Anyone want to offer him some...

(I haven't been here in a while, I assume this is the correct place to post this.) New Egg is running a sale on HD-280s, $77 + shipping. At first I thought it was a one day sale, but it may be longer than that.

I asked about this in another thread, but I'm afraid my question was drowned out. Is there a head-fi sponsor that sells velour Beyer DT250 pads? I'd like to get a set for my MDR-7506s, and I'd prefer to give me money to a supporter, and not B&H Photo Video.

(With apologies to Anthony Shakir.) I'm leaving for a week's business trip in about 10 minutes. I'm bringing my iPod (freshly stuffed with new tunes) and its power supply. That was the easy part. Now I have to pick which can(s) to bring with me. The obvious choices are one of my Koss...

After owning them for a year and a half, I've just removed the interior foam from my HD-650s. It's amazing what crackheaded ideas seem perfectly reasonable at 5:30 in the morning. I've never attempted to disassemble my 650s, before. The pads come off fairly easily, provided a little care is...

The Adcom GCD-750 CD player I won off eBay just arrived. FedEx tormented me by delivering it two days late. I've just finished wiring it into my sound system, which was a right royal PITA. The GCD had to sit on the bottom of my rack, with my receiver on top of it, and my Edirol DAC and Gilmore...