For metal and if you're not an EQ purist (the 485's really need a little EQ to sound their best) I would go with the 485's. I liked both headphones but for the money and a funner sound I am a big fan of the 485's.

I'll try and keep this short as I can only offer impressions and not really comparisons. The only other IEM I have any experience with is the E2c and after about a day I was not a fan of that IEM at all. I first call Earpeace directly and spoke with John. I asked a lot of questions about the...

Mine arrived today so hopefully after a couple of days I will have some impressions.

I just hit the 1 month mark waiting for mine. Hope to either get them real soon or have someone call me back about why it is taking so much longer than I was originally told it would take.

In short: Selling or trading my K701's for an IEM? Leaning towards the UM2. In long: I have the K701's as well as the HD650's and while they are both great I find them more alike than different and I find myself usually going with the 650's. So I was thinking of sellling the 701's and...

It's completely FUBAR

1. Senn 2. AKG

second on the 485's.

So my friend and I both recently built Millett amps and used the exact same parts other than he forgot to order wire so I used cardas wire and he slaughtered a old (like from the 80's) printer cable and used those wires and for the life of me no matter how hard I try I can not hear any...

HD485's...assuming you don't need a closed design.

Maybe I am in the minority but I don't think they are that comfortable and I don't think many people can honestly claim they can match up to other cans in their price range. If the SR60's, PX100's, K81's were priced at $150 they would get a lot of hate here as well...I bet people would rip them...

Plus all the items sold to all the different accounts are all the same item...what an *******....and he is trying to scam with laptops as well on the different accounts.

I just picked one up yesterday and have the same questions you have. I have a Luxman R-1050 and a Marantz 2230 coming in the mail. As I soon as they arrive... I am hooking them up for a listen. I will post an update then.

People are so focused on commenting on the "looks" because that is all there is to comment on...they are the SR-60 drivers...there is no "they're ugly but maybe they offer some improvement in the grado line"...if they were some development in product then I think that everyone here would be a...

Why are people getting bashed for saying something is ugly that has "style" right in the damn name? Obviously they tried to make a hip set of headphones and it seems a lot of people that would have been in their target market feels they failed miserably.

I would add the Sennheiser HD497 to your list....and don't forget the KSC75's...although I don't know much about hip hop listening they are both solid value for the price.

I currently have some 600's and 880's and have never heard the 701's...commonly my wife and I like to use a splitter to listen to them together which works out fine since they both drive to comparable volumes but I have been thinking of selling the 880's and picking up a pair of 701's...so with...

I originally had populated d2la and d2ra with the J503 instead of the obvious d2rb and d2lb. Everything is running great now...the amp is perfectly silent, no hum or anything...sounds great too!

I'm an idiot...but at least now I'm a happy idiot!!! I had those positions fubar but all is well now. THANK YOU ALL FOR THE HELP!!!

oops hold on...I forgot to populate d2 lb

OK I pulled D2LA and now the right channel is still low and the bias can only be set to about 19v at it's lowest and the left channel is nothing but intermitent distortion and the bias reading is about .78v

I'm using vishay J503 at d2la and d2lb

Both bias to the same...around 19...ok I also checked the leads on the R5 positions and get about 3.3v on each side and they are 1k resistors. It is being ran off a tread with a unregulated ac 24v supply and I am running 24v from the tread to the amp. There are no led's under the tubes.

I double checked all my soldering and fixed anything that even looked funny. I swapped the buffers and still have the same problem except that when I check the test points for the bias I can not adjust it to lower than about 19v. The amp itself sounds great other than the volume and I took...

I'm not sure what 1/2 "scale" means but I have tried hooking it up to my zen and my 0404 soundcard and still have the same problem. In the R6 spots I have Vishay Dale 221 Ohm 1/4W and am using the 634P buffer. I am trying to see if I can get my friend to come over with his digital camera to post...