Thanks John. I'll check the foam when I get home. 

Quote: That's the same one Thujone mentioned but thanks for a UK link. £6 postage - that almost doubles the price

Hodgjy: I find that the cans are rather loose if I extend them and they easily wobble back and forth, so I don't really want to extend them.   Thujone: Funny, I was just looking at those on ebay an hour ago. Looks well padded. I just have a feeling the leather is be uncomfortable during the...

I don't know if it's because I've started to wear my HD650's for longer now - by longer I just mean 2-3 hours, but I find them really uncomfortable, to such a degree that they'll leave a mark on the top of my head. Yeah, I'm bald so I don't have natural padding either lol.   Particularly the...

That is superb. I should be able to do that despite my poor DIY skills   I hope the HD650 is very similar in the way it's build. I'll check later. Thanks a lot.

The right side of the headphone doesn't produce any sound when cable is plugged in now. Last night I was able to push the cable fairly hard in and sound would come back, but even that doesn't seem to work now. Left side is fine, and I've tried both left and right end of cable in the left...

Niyaz - Niyaz (2005) Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere (2006) Celldweller - Celldweller (2003) Daugtry - Daughtry (2006).... .what is this thing about not giving your debut album a proper name?

I went to the Shpongle concert last year (just down the road from me ) and heard 4 new tracks. I actually only thought 1 was great. The other 3 ok-ish, but could be different when heard on an actual CD. I think Prodigy is playing in my neighbourhood soon but I'm not sure I can be bothered to...

I bought the album and I quite liked it after first listen, but it quickly wears thin. Sound dated and doesn't match up to FOTL at all, nor MFTJG. Omen is great but mostly for nostalgic reasons. It's like Liam kept on improving from Experience to FOTL but after that he's been rather stale...

Quote: Originally Posted by dreamwhisper For Downtempo, a lot of the downtempo acts in my first post, as well as.. Similar to shpongle, shulman ,entheogenic etc: Slackbaba (uptempo, more like Entheogenic - from Liquid Records, same as Mood Deluxe) Androcell (entheogenic feel too)...

How funny. Didn't see that coming. I own the old DMX 6Fire is quite happy with it and I see they now have added an XLR input. Looks like a good option if one is looking for a USB sound card.

Do feel free to respond. I won't bite

Broke - but trying to get the best out of my HD650. I know most of you'd think that I'll need to spend $500 on an amp but I can't see where I'd get that amount from in the near future so what would you recommend in that price range? HP4 looks good. Perhaps it's overkill having 4 headphone...

Thanks guys. Quote: Originally Posted by IPodPJ High-end soundcards don't have 1/8" outputs. Not quite sure what you mean here. They should have? I thought 1/8" was considered low-end. Just to make it clear; I'm not talking about Soundblaster et al. These are not your...

I've got 2 semi-pro sound cards - Terratec DMX6 Fire (was £170), which I'm using currently and Behringer FCA202 (£50); an external firewire soundcard. These both have a built-in headphone amp. Now, does the headphone amp's in these soundcard have anywhere near the quality of a budget (say...

Thanks guys. Since I posted that post I've managed to buy a HD650. I was gonna go for a HD580, but suddenly a cheap HD650 had my name on it Do you have any idea which amp will be good for that. Unfortunately I'm now completely broke so the cheaper the better. Also, I'm fairly new to being a...

So around 300 have been sold. There must be some more opinions on how the Headsix compares to Mini3 and Minibox-E, the 2 other amps I'm considering at the moment.

Btw. I do quite like mixing on headphones and doing regular checks on monitors. How would HD580 with a headphone amp like Go-vibe 7 or Pocket amp 2 compare to HD497? Night and day or just a tiny improvement? Or are those amps not good enough anyway? Cause I can't really see myself spending...

Thanks Duggeh. I do have speakers - Blueroom minipods but they are not that great. For monitors I'd be looking at Adams A7 or Dynaudio BM5A which are both around £500.

Thanks. Well, I'm wondering whether without a headphone amp the HD497 might actually sound just as good as HD600. Cause if I have to spend £100-ish on a decent amp + £180 for HD600 then perhaps I might as well bite the bullet and look around for some 2nd hand monitors for around £350-400.

Yes, it's probably been asked 1000 times before, but I'm a bit in the wilderness with this amp thing. Here's the deal: I'm a musician/composer. Would ideally like some really nice monitors (that's speakers, not screens ) but money is tight so I'm thinking about getting a pair of HD580 or...

there seems to be as many opinions as there's people. Hmm.... guess I'll go for the AKG 240 then I think the 570 is out of the question although I think they look great and probably are the most comfortable, but if the frequency response isn't as flat as the rest, then it's no good. I'll...

thanks. That didn't help much either unfortunately. The only place I found a retailer was on Alessandro's on site at $99. No UK dealers at all.

Ah, that's interesting. I read a few reviews on the SR60 but didn't notice anything about "agressive" treble. I was considering ordering it from US, but after postage, 17.5% VAT and customs charge it's probably the same as buying it in a store here. I do quite a lot of different music but...