Hello. I am currently in the process of recabling a Grado SR80i and transplanting the drivers into a beautiful set of mahogany cups. However, I have had a sudden doubt... is it worth transplanting a set of SR80i drivers into mahogany cups? Would it be worth my while to find a set of a SR225 or...

Hello all, been a while since I've last posted. I am currently in the process of building a variable power supply that is capable of supplying a positive and negative DC voltage (to be used as part of my University project class). However, I have always wanted to build one anyway, as it can be...

Hello everyone. I received a letter from Richer Sounds today regarding the Cambridge Audio DacMagic. "We have recently been alerted to a problem of cracks appearing in the casework of some DacMagic Power Supply Units after a period of sustained use. We believe this only affects a small...

Hello, I have just sold my Meier Corda Arietta, and I am in the market for a new amplifier (<$1000) for my DX1000s. The amplifier needs to have a loop/pre-amplifier output (to connect to my stereo). I have considered: Lehmann Audio Linear Black Cube April Music Stello HP100 Headamp GS-1...

Hello everyone, I am currently looking for an amplifier for my Denon AH-D5000s and have stumbled across the Shanling PH300. It is relatively low in price (£200 shipped) and offers a pre-amp output, which I can daisy-link to my speaker amplifier. Has anyone had experience with this amplifier...

Hello all, I have read through the threads covering what amplifiers to get for the Beyerdynamic DT880, but none come to anything conclusive. WOW, these are bright headphones (not a bad thing at all)! I need something to tame them. I'm loving the detail of these. So, if you were in my shoes...

Hello, I have used these for less than one hour, and I have just noticed that the left earphone distorts as if it has a hair vibrating off of it. All the sound is there, it's just something is making it rattle at low frequencies. I have tried sucking gently, blowing on the earpiece to no avail...

Hello I received the parts to make an iPhone Line-out cable from Qables today. I have read through the other thread on this, but due to my newbistic self, I can't make sense of what pins to solder. I've had quite a bit of experience solder mini-mini cables, headphone extensions, adapters...

Hello, the title pretty much sums my question up. I have been looking about, and found YUIN PK1 PK2 PK3 OK1 OK2 OK3 UK Europe Representative However, all of the Yuin models are out of stock apart from the OK1. Any help would be appreciated.

Hello, I want to get back into making amplifiers and such, but I still confused to where I can purchase PCB's for amplifiers such as the Millet Hybrid or DAC's such as the Alien v1.1? If anyone is willing to sell me a PCB, please send me a PM. Thank you.

Hello, Well, I sold my Xbox 360 on eBay and it was delivered to the guy today. I recieved a message after it was delivered saying, "mate wheres my console it still not here". I send him a message telling him it has arrived (Looking at the tracking information) and then an hour later he sends...

Hello, If you look into the sky at a distant galaxy, say - 200 light years away, the image you see is 200 years old. In other words, you are in effect, looking into the past. Does this mean if you could look far enough, say - 15 Billion light years away, you would see the "Big Bang". If not...

Hello, After much trouble with my current PC, (Generally being laggy, freezing up, acting strange), I have considered purchasing an Apple iMac 24" computer with the following specs: 2.16Ghz Intel Duo 2GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT 256MB SDRAM 250GB Serial ATA Drive This will...

I have just bought a new Xytronic LF-1000 from here - http://www.rapidelectronics.co.uk/rk...2316&XPAGENO=1. I am now becoming slightly more interested in cable making and my 25W Antex soldering iron I bought for £15 just didn't seem to cut it. So I was just wondering if this is an overkill...

So I've built most of a Senn HD650 cable (Still waiting on my 10ft of Carbon Reflex Techflex), and I now need to solder the ends of the cable directly to the Senn connectors pins. I've been trying for hours and not much has happened. How do you guys do it? Thanks.

Just a heads up for you guys... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sennheiser-Ele...QQcmdZViewItem

I have about 2600 songs encoded at 224kbp - 320kbps (AAC) and a couple of lossless album stored in iTunes. My question is, if I were to re-encode an AAC file at the same bitrate to MP3, will there be a loss of sound quality? For example, if I took "Razor Boy - Steely Dan" encoded at 320kbps...

I've come across an auction for this http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Headphone-Ampl...QQcmdZViewItem portable headphone amplifier on eBay and was wondering from looking at it's specifications would it be any use for my HD650's and possibly my E5c's? I'm currently enjoying my HD650's straight from...

Just recently found this auction on ebay, is it a scam?

Aren't you guys lucky, ehh! I'm in need for an headphone amplifier for my HD650's. With my budget of £200 (Around $340) I've been looking at the Gilmore Lite, AE-1 (Though slightly over my budget, concerning shipping and import tax), and the Headroom Micro. Shellbrook Audio Hybrid Head...

Sorry guys/girls for another one of these threads, but I know you like helping people. Well, I think I'll be soon buying a new pair of headphones for home usage and I'm torn between the HD650's, 325i's and the MS2i's. These will be my first pair of decent headphones, apart from my E5c's. So...

Just wondering how The Hybrid Head compared to the Gilmore Lite in terms of sound quality, considering they're around the same price. Has anyone ever heard both of these amps? Sorry, I'm new to all this stuff. Thanks.

I just got back from a friendly debate with my friend, who will be checking this post soon. He's puzzled to why a headphone amplifier is needed to drive high impedance headphones, when you could just stick the headphones into a normal soundcard or portable cd player/MP3 player. This debate...

I have had these for under a week and I love 'em! They're exactly what I have been looking for in a canal phone, since I first had my E2c's. Only there is a slight problem, when they are connected to my pc or my iPod, there is a large amount of "Hissing" which can be heard in the background...

Hey, this is my first post here. I have been browsing your forums for a wee while now and I decided to buy the Westone UM2's after much deliberation between them and the Shure E5c's. I ordered them directly from Westone for $330 and I'm wondering, since I live in the UK, what postal service they...