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    ATH-L3000 - new comments by its designers

    Audio Technica's marketing division is doing a lot of work, it seems. They have now extended the website dedicated to the new ATH-L3000 with leather cover. It now contains, among other things, detailed statements by the two designers Kenichi Suzuki and Hiromichi Ozawa...
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    New top-of-the-line Audio Technica headphone: ATH-L3000, made from leather?!

    This is the link to the Japanese website dedicated to this year's new top of the line headphone from AT, the ATH-L3000: http://www.audio-technica.co.jp/atj/...00/index.html#I don't speak Japanese and Babelfish hasn't been very helpful, but my impression is that this headphone has enclosures...
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    The first Italian Head-Fi meet. Or: Just how big is an Angstrom?

    The answer is simple, of course: HUGE. While on vacation in Italy, I, together with my wife, visited Head-Fier Nik on Saturday. It was a pleasure meeting him, and it would have been a most entertaining evening even if we hadn’t compared headphones and amps. I guess it’s true for both of us...
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    Use music you don't particularly like for the initial evaluation

    The following has been posted by Peter Qvortrup at Audio Asylum in March. Qvortrup is the owner of Audio Note UK. I have found many of Qvortrup's unconventional ideas about what to look for in music reproduction and how to go about evaluating systems and components very helpful in the past. His...
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    Reviews in German audio mags: Stax SR-007 and Grado 125/Beyer 880 tops

    I have just glanced through the March issues of two German audio magazines. "Audio", Europe's largest audio magazine, had a comparative review of 12 headphones, some of them wireless ones. The test winners are the Beyerdynamic DT 880 and the Grado SR-125. The Beyer is said to a have a...
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    Philips Miniwatt 6DJ8 and Tfk ECC801s in the EMP

    Inspired by 88Sound, I got some NOS tubes for my Earmax Pro from Heinz Posingis. Great tip! I have tried a “Telefunken ECC801s” (=12AT7) as a replacement for the EMP’s input tube. For the output stage, I got a pair of “Telefunken ECC88” (=6DJ8s) and a pair of “Philips Miniwatt 6DJ8/ECC88...
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    Improving the W100's fit

    A couple of months ago, JML posted a suggestion how to improve the fit of the W100. Since it involved bending the two circular tubes/metal springs connecting the W100’s enclosures, I have been very reluctant to try it. Well, I finally tried it now, and I would like to thank JML for this...
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    Breaking-in the W100 can induce psychosis!

    Did I mention the beneficial effect break-in has on the W100? <grins maniacally> I have used my W100 for well over 300 hours now. I felt break-in would have to be pretty much complete, any further changes ought to be fairly minor. But then I thought to myself, why not give it another dose...
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    Audio Technica ATH-W100 review, the second première

    Audio Technica ATH-W100 dynamic headphone HISTORY The W100 belongs to the W series of Audio Technica (A/T) headphones from Japan. All W series headphones are closed designs with wooden enclosures. A/T has started the W series in 1996 when the ATH-W10VTG was introduced, a now...
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    How much warm up for tube equipment?

    How long do you let your tube gear warm up before you start listening with it? Here are my experiences with the Earmax Pro: 5 to 10 minutes – things are starting to become edible, somewhat glaring, annoying and distorted treble disappears around 2 hours – now it’s getting a serious feast...
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    Earmax Pro's original 12AT7 seems to be quite mediocre

    The tubes in my Earmax Pro started to distort noticeably after three years of use. So I decided to get new ones. I know that a lot of people aren’t really pleased with the two original JAN-Philips 6922 the Earmax Pro comes equipped with, but there seem to be just as many who think, that the...
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    Isaac Stern has died

    The great American violinist Isaac Stern has died at the age of 81 in a New York Hospital on Saturday.
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    Has the rationale for SACD vanished?

    I just want to add some confusion by mentioning a thread from our learned colleagues over at the newsgroup alt.rec.audio.high-end: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=d...fe099,159&ic=1 Basically it is a discussion about this paper: "Why 1-Bit Sigma-Delta Conversion is Unsuitable for...
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    Is there hope for audiophiles?

    Hi all, the recent poll by Eagle driver about types of listeners kind of brought the topic up again, and I think jude was especially astonished that the attribute of "audiophile" is not favourably regarded by all of us. Having visited the "High End" exhibit near Frankfurt/Germany again this...
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