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I own these headphones and keep them on my desk uncovered. I recently noticed the membrane has some particles perhaps dandruffs. How can I clean it without damaging it?     (Image is for illustration, not my set.)

This album sounds perfect: Dr. Chesky's Sensational, Fantastic, and Simply Amazing Binaural Sound Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY4Gme5SR6o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a3bUPCyneI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9OtN8NdatQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9hFPPLWIRs&hd=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PzyCbbWLbI&hd=1

Most albums sound flat and non-layered to me as opposed to some (rare) live recordings such as Leonard Cohen Live in London or Metallica Unplugged (noisy but has realistic ambiance). These live albums sound more layered with better soundstage. Is it because paradoxically the recording of live...

  Caprice sounds amazing on my T1!

  The representation of distinct layered is another way to say it has good soundstage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDZcz-V29_M&hd=1

  Gorgeous!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NZt4hffJsY&hd=1 Sorry, couldn't find an HD version.

Obviously there are no perfect headphones and there are many things to look at, so say I'm looking for HP which deliver speakers-like presentation as my current HD650 do. Which attributes make a HP so? From your experience do some HP successfully sound more "live" than that or mimicking speakers...

  Sounds superb on my HD650.

Do the T1 ($760) or HE-500 ($600) offer the best value currently?

Which cans did you previously owned?

Has anyone felt the HD650 are sligihtly laid back and dark? I'm looking for a new headphone to explore. With the HD650 I feel there's zero fatigue but also the presentation is slightly too dark to feel really engaged by the music. The natural move from what I read would be to the HD800 but...

Looks like raspbery pi doesn't have the noise strangely...

I tried the exact same combo in Windows and it sounds fine. The noise is only in Linux (but running the command in step 4 fixes it). The Benchmark is the best I've heard but I find it a bit hard to justify the 5% improvement in sq for x4 the price...

It's 2nd hand from Audiogon.

UPDATE: I bought the external sound card with the SPDIF output and now there are small low volume ticks repeating in constant rhythm...  What could be the reason?   Currently I'm running PC --USB-> external sound card (ENCORE ENMAB-8CM 7.1) --optical-> Benchmark DAC1 --unbalanced-> HD650

OK thanks. It looks like the optimal option, but unfortunately only the former is available locally. Will it convert the digital signal to spdif in higher frequencies than 48Khz which is specified? It's unclear from the specifications. Otherwise I can't see any cheap way to convert the signal.

Regardless jitter, which digital input should I use and how from a computer?  Do I need something like this or like this?