From Tyll's review @ InnerFidelity; "Initially, the SINE caliper pressure on my ears was a bit too much. The good news is that if you grab the headband at either end—not the ear cups or extender arms—you can stretch out the internal spring steel part fairly readily. Do it carefully in a few...

It's probably too small a volume for them to care, given how apathetic the large parts house are with the 'small' order that Alex wanted to place (from their perspective, not Schiit's). I'd place a small wager that AD's ordering unit is a shipping pallet of devices, if not more. In business...

  I would have thought you'd be ok (I have the M); It drives the HD-650 well and they're not the easiest headphones to control. They sound terrible when badly amped.

Something like this might help. They're a German company, but if they're not available in the US I'd guess that there is a local manufacturer that has an equivalent. A chat with a music instrument store should clear that up. It's not too expensive, £40-60 in the UK. Shure and others make...

I also use TH900s, although my are unmodded, and completely agree with your comment. I find I have to use some equalisation with the TH900s as otherwise they sound somewhat boosted in both the bass and treble compared with my other DACs; these both use TI/Burr Brown DAC chips and seem to mesh...

Exactly. They really should be regarded as a separate series of headphones, which is presumably part of the thinking behind the change in branding, i.e. to avoid any confusion between the Aurisonics and Fender models.

Re-tuned as in having the frequency response adjusted, not returned...

The Fender versions are supposedly all retuned from what I've read. It may have been posted earlier in this thread.

Yes, stockists seem to be showing them for delivery around the end of April.

FXA 7?

Thanks, hopefully some of my local shops will have them soon so I can have a listen.

Thanks, they're sounding like a good complement to my TH-900s. They are quite v-shaped, although I find this an issue mostly with my Chord Mojo. How's the treble and PRAT with the Sine?

What does it do differently from the Fostex that means you prefer the Sine?

I used to work for a Hifi retailer long ago and found that some musicians are not the best judges of a system's musical performance; they tend to focus on the sound of the instrument they play, rather than listening to the music as a whole.

He also claimed the iPhone 5 sounds great. He must have low standards, as the one I own is poor. Both the Mojo and my Cowon Plenue M stomp all over it, and I'm not someone that is inclined to over hype differences.

On my Windows 8 laptop the Jitterbug does help. So does Fidelizer, which has both free and purchased versions. I'd therefore assume that my laptop is electrically noisy, as the sound without either is harsh and unpleasant as per Rob Watts's posts regarding noisy signals. The musical timing is...

I picked up a case today for the Mojo plus my Cowon Plenue M player, the Lowe Pro Santiago 30. They fit, rather snugly with the Audioquest Forest optical cable that I use to connect them together. I think a pair of IEMs would probably also fit in the case

It's not online yet, so what do they think of the Mojo?

The Mojo is a step up, it also does better when the music is rhythmically complex but even then the Plenue holds things together better than a lot of full sized Hifi that I've heard. I'll be keeping both, to use together when more bulk is not an issue and the Plenue M to use alone when...

  Only when using it with the Mojo... I also use it without the Mojo, in fact I'm listening to it that way now with Fostex TH-900s and it's really very good.

  I suspect your confusion is caused by the Plenue M's headphone out and optical out using the same dual purpose socket...? 

  Yes. The Plenue M is pretty good by itself but the sound is bigger, bolder and more detailed with the Mojo.   The tricky question is would I carry both as a truly portable system... at the moment I'm not sure that I would given that the Plenue is very listenable standalone, and there's...

I'm using the Plenue M, optical out into the Mojo... for the person that asked earlier, I forgot to press the Quote button!

I bought the M recently and I am enjoying listening to it but there is one niggle. When I tilt it into landscape orientation so that multiple albums show, I don't see any album cover art, just pink squares with a music note in the middle. Portrait orientation for a single album track is fine...

Ah, that rarely mentioned but vital point of good Hifi systems... when the music clicks in a way that it never has before. Great taste in music too! Those electric period Miles albums are fantastic and still more experimental than most modern music. They're also a serious test for the music...