I have taken apart my beloved HD600s in order to remove hairs. It's a very organic hobby, this headphone thing. My speakers don't smell like me or have hairs caught in them. Anyway, the process of unsnapping the plastics apart caused me much stress and consternation, and in the process I have...

Since the early days of audio reproduction, fidelity has made major strides. As we maximize the potential of our analogue gear (speakers, headphones, amps) as well as our budgets, we are turning more and more toward digital signal processing to improve the sound we are able to achieve...

I have seen 2khz regarded as the upper midrange, and have also seen it regarded as treble. In my own opinion, which I hope will not influence the poll, when I think of the mid range, I think of 200hz-1,000hz, and associate 2,000hz with the beginning of the treble range. I also find I am quite...

My notification settings were changed while I was logged out. I started getting e-mail alerts, which was surprising because I had turned off notifications to avoid cluttered up inboxes. I would like to know what the reason for this change was, and if this should be a security or privacy concern...

The reviews on Electroma range quite a bit, and I heard some people walked out of this at Cannes. There are parts of the film I think could have been condensed, but overall I think this is a great experience. I'm not one to typically enjoy sprawling, loose fitting indie narratives driven by...

We’ve read about the loudness war, we can hear it in our music, but I started wondering if there was an easy way to analyze the dynamic range compression in a mix (the loudness) by looking at measurements of the music itself. Usually this is done with a peak meter, but the music doesn’t always...

What's up guys? Haven't posted in a while, but thought you'd all be interested in this article.    http://www.anandtech.com/show/7567/smartphone-audio-quality-testing 

I have been enjoying Grados and Beyers, but am tempted by all the forum talk about planar magnetics, and was curious about how my current DT880 would stack up against an in-my-budget HE-400...        It looks like all the fun parts of the frequency spectrum (and the sections...

I ran across this video about Stradivarius violins on YouTube and couldn't help but be reminded of themes native to Hi-Fi audio reproduction:  

I’m asking because when I switch between 32 and 600 ohm headphones I don’t have to adjust the volume at all, and they both get too loud at the same volume… kinda weird. If I switch phones on any other source/amp I have I need to do some fairly drastic gain/volume adjustments. I'm not sure how to...

I only have a couple 5.1 music Blu Rays, and was looking for any recommendations anyone has for new ones - concerts, symphonies, anything. My gold standard out of the two I own is Roy Orbison Black and White Night. Not only is it Roy Orbison, but the mastering is phenomenal, it sounds...

I've been looking for an actual music forum for the past few months on Head-Fi, but for some reason I never bothered to peer into the oft-marginalized "miscellaneous" category. After crawling into what is usually the unwanted and unloved part of any forum, I am both glad and slightly bothered to...

I just did some tube rolling today and decided to try out some test tones for bass response. I noticed my right channel was way more sensitive to low frequencies, like 3-6db more sensitive, and it was very noticeable. I started freaking out about tube imbalance at first. However, before...

Hi, just wondering what the maximum recommended length is for an RCA cable leaving a DAC and going to a headphone amp. I'll be using a Xonar Essence STX as the DAC and outputting to the Little Dot MKIV, which will be my first tube amp ever :) The computer is in a corner and I'd like to bring it...

Hello,   I built a computer recently and installed a Xonar Essence STX. This computer was to be the center of my entertainment system – especially music.  I usually like warm, sweet sounding speakers, and am enjoying the sound card’s digital out, but figured I should take advantage of the...