Thanks but I'm waay the heck down in New Zealand, which is part of the reason why it's so expensive to get them... Tbh I'm more keen on the older 2003 model since I prefer the aesthetics but it seems like the price is a little jacked up on those because they're rare or collectable or...

Hmm okay, maybe I will then. To be honest I care a lot less about micro-analysing the differences between headphones now, everything basically sounds pretty good once you get past a certain point. It's real easy to get emotionally invested in a set of headphones because someone just happened to...

I'm seriously considering buying some DT880s... again. The reason why is because I owned some back in highschool and remember really enjoying the sound and comfort. I especially liked how detailed they were, and how accurate the imaging was. The bass extended deeply and had enough punch for me...

Thanks for your input I guess and congratulations on your 700 pairs of headphones but I asked this question in 2006...

I've been out of the game for a while but I'm going overseas soon so I needed an IEM for travelling... My first instinct was to go for something by Shure or Etymotic then I was like surely the market will have changed since the last time I was looking for IEMs (my last pair was Altec Lansing...

Cool, okay. I've never dealt with this level of electronics before. Are there any visual signs I should be looking for that capacitors are bad, or do I need to test them somehow?

So I got this thing:     It's an Estradin Pulsar drum machine, apparently from Russian 90s.    Anyway it seems to have a really quiet and thin output with no bass and I'm not sure what's going on. I've tried running alligator clips to the outputs on the board to see if it's the jack but...

My soldering skills are pretty bad so there was a decent amount of heat applied. I also used hot glue. However both capsules seem to have the same treble problems. I guess it's possible I melted the diaphragm in both but isn't it a bit too coincidental that I broke them both in the same way? I...

Picked up a few WM-61a capsules for use in a stealthy binaural recording rig for gigs and such. I've performed the 2-wire Linkwitz mod on a pair of them and attempted to implement the circuit design found here http://www.linkwitzlab.com/images/graphics/microph2.gif. As expected the output...

Woah sick necropost bro   Edit: I was literally 14 when I made this thread.

Ah yes, a socket is another thing I'll buy.    A stereo pre-amp for electret capsules isn't really something which is available ready made as far as I know. I'm planning on using this with a simple binaural headset I made from an old pair of headphones and two elecret capsules. It already...

I thought I could skip straight to a protoboard so I didn't buy a breadboard. Obviously I was being a bit cocky. I've checked the connections many times and everything seems to be okay. The polarity of all my caps is correct but looks like I put in 1uf caps instead of 2.2uf caps. I have no idea...

  Right. So I've wired the ground from the input socket, VCC- from the op-amp, the ground on the pot, and the negative wire from the battery to the ground lug on the output socket. So it should all be correctly grounded now. I also wired things to the legs on the pot, not the rivets. On the...

Right, fair enough. So if it works when I don't have VCC- connected it must not actually be using the opamp... What is ground in a circuit like this one? I understand ground can be like a point on the chassis but I don't have a chassis. Do I just wire all my ground things to an empty solder pad...

I'm wanting to use a pre amp to achieve the goals stated on the design page:  "A: Providing a higher electret bias voltage, 9V through a 10k resistor to give the mic's fet more headroom.  (The R91 provides 2.5V through a 6k8 resistor.) B: Having much greater preamp headroom, and bypassing the...

    I have VCC+ connected to the positive supply, I'm just not sure what to do with VCC-. When I connect it to the negative supply the whole thing stops working, so I guess it's optional...   I did buy backup components expecting failure. Really surprised I haven't broken anything actually...

So this is pretty much my first experience with any sort of electrical DIY aside from making cables. I wanted to make a simple pre-amp for electret capsules. I used this design: http://www.minidisc.org/mic_preamp/Simple%20Stereo%20Electret%20Mic%20Preamp.htm    It picks up sound from the...

http://www.musicdirect.com/p-9686-hifi-tuning-disc-demagnetizer.aspx   "We are frequently asked how it's possible for an aluminum disc to magnetize. The important thing to remember is that just because a disc is nominally made from polycarbonate and aluminum, this does not mean these are the...

That motherboard has a Realtek ALC1150 HD for the audio which seems to be a pretty good chipset. On paper it has a high SNR and low THD, pretty much on par with a low/medium range dedicated soundcard like the Xonar DG. The headphone amp they talk about is the Texas Instruments NE5532 opamp. Not...

Nice wee studio you had there. Oh god those synths are hot. Hopefully some day I'll be able to afford Moog equipment lol...   Imo you should keep a thing which allows for recording of 'real' instruments in case you get that urge. There's something about playing real tangible analog synths...

Quote: Getting an RME seems pretty overkill for his purposes.   My friend has the Nuforce uDAC-2 and it sounds very good even out of the headphone output. Plus it's damn tiny. There are a lot of small affordable DAC/Amp combo options which will all probably sound pretty similar. The...

Quote:   It's understandable that you don't want inputs as an electronic musician, although there are a lot of electronic musicians who also incorporate recorded sounds. But that's okay. Listened to some of your stuff and you seem pretty proficient at producing electronic music.  ...

Quote:   I would consider most midrange recording interfaces such as the ones mentioned above to be fairly portable. Why not simplify things by just getting one device which does everything fairly well? Driver compatibility is also less likely to be an issue with a proper recording...

Looks to me like there's just one "output" volume control which controls the volume from both the headphone and speaker outputs...

I have a Little Dot MK II and every now and then I get buzzing in one of the channels. Sometimes simply removing and replacing the tubes is enough to fix it.   Try swapping the left and right tubes and seeing if it moves to the other channel. That way you can isolate it to an individual...