I've had an idea for a while of building a set of planar magnetic headphones, completely from scratch, partly to see if I can make something good but mostly for the fun of it. One thing that is really holding me up is finding the things I would need - in particular reasonably thin metalized...

I'm thinking of picking up a pair of HM5s but have a few questions i want to ask first so I don't end up getting something that's worse for me.   for reference - running mostly FLAC, some MP3, direct from my PC. I'll also use these for gaming, although gaming comes second to music. I listen...

I've been reading up on the loudness war reciently and decided to download a dynamic range meter for foobar2000. after checking some of my music i noticed that on some tracks there were huge discrepancies between what i percieved the dynamic range to be and what it was measured to be. this was...