So I'm looking for some special headphones. The more excentric they are the better. I've looked at the B&Os, but they apperently are bad and the same goes for the jecklins except for the electrostatic which is rather expensive. I live in europe and am just looking for crazy vintage...

Quote: The A71f is more than just a pretty face, I have one here and trust me it is solid through and trough. It's also very silent especially with the foam I installed, however cooling is not perfect, but frankly I don't care too much about that.

I proudly present my first ever cable!

Amazing video

I ordered all the parts in a week orso I should get to work. I will post pics :D

Quote: Hmmm so you find 2000dollar speakers sound better than 1000dollar headphones? I though one would have to go to even more expensive speakers to achieve top end headphones performance. In that case I might start to build some speakers, hehehhe

Quote: Is that a 6000dollars pair of speakers?

Thanks guys, I used to find Lian Li's ugly. Just a black box I thought, but given time I think we all grow to love that black box. It's just so beautifully clean. It is however huge like that atcs840 I mean just look at how it dwarfs my supposedly large g110 and my 24" monitors which some...

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Quote: I have a pretty similar pc system to you :D I'll post it soon. Beautiful case btw!

Quote: Watchmakers seem to disagree with you, I hear a lot of praise towards rolex from them: http://www.chronometrie.com/rolex3135/rolex3135.html

Can anybody tell me how I should do the y-split or if it is a good idea to just run the 2 separate cables to the plug and heatshrink the part I want to keep together?

Quote: Ok I found the cardas terminations on ebay for around 20euros(Kind of expensive imo, but it seems I have no...

Quote: Sadly I think that's a little too expensive for me ;(    

So I thought it would be nice building a cable for my hd650s. This is not for SQ reasons, but aesthetic reasons.  I would like a green(or yellow) cable with stylish plugs. I live in the eu so I guess that is a setback. I would also prefer not to spend too much here as it's just for fun...

Quote: I should really start reading websites like that. I started to believe it at the end. Luckily I quickly realised: it's a bloody usb cable...

When I don't know what else to buy I might one day buy a nice cardas cable. This however seems a little outrageous even if you have too much money. I mean what do you tell the starving africans? "Sorry guys I was in a dilemma between a 1m usb cable and feeding this entire village for 2 years...

The problem with your logic is that in the examples that you provide the buyers know what they are buying. Let's take a Rolex for example. Those people know that it's still just a watch and might not keep time much better than say a high-end timex(don't claim a timex will probably keep time...

Quote: What's your opinion on tubes? The consensus seems to be that they sound "warmer" or more inviting. I however am yet to experience that. The only difference I was able to detect(not extremely extensive testing) between the CD-player headphone out and my little dot mk III was that...

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Audiophile I think that pretty much speaks for itself.   What's your opinion on their opinion? In what range of audio equipment do you say: "To hell with it it, it's all the bloody same!" ?

Quote: You think in 20 years, with genetically modified dinosaurs and computer controlled velociraptors rampaging through our streets, we will be talking about how we long for the music form the (g)olden days. I think when that time comes I'll be dreaming of a world with spears and bows, no...

Quote: Good music

To be honest if you live in the netherlands your best bet is sennheiser. If you buy from www.amazon.de like me you'll get good prices on sennheiser HPs. Basically every other good brand is American or Asian. And you will pay a premium on the import. When I bought my hd650s they were 250euros and...

I find this thread is focusing FAR too much on whether the artists are good artists instead of whether the music they produce is good or not. Music is about listening and just sitting there enjoying the sublime melody passing through your ears. Who cares if they gasped for air at 1:15 or whether...

  Quote:   If that is dubstep then what is this?  That's not to say I like the songs you linked, I though they were ok. But what I linked is just screeching noises in my opinion. There is no real melody no vocals. I mean if there were any more important criteria in music I'm...