So... does HiFiMan still not sell a closed planar? And no plans to do so? Sigh......

Anyone?

Currently use M50s at work, with the coax pad mod, out of a Cute Beyond amp. I like them a lot, best closed headphones I've tried, the alleged v-shape freq response is excellent in light of the fact I listen at low volumes. Anyway, I'm wanting a second pair of closed headphones so I can have one...

Jeff Buckley Scott Miller

Old thread. I've always liked this album. It's produced by Mitch Easter, who also produced a lot of Scott Miller's (RIP) stuff (Game Theory, The Loud Family).  

[depressing post ahead] Interesting. I have this theory, though it only really applies to me, that my audio spending is secretly an attempt to compensate for the fact that I can't smoke marijuana anymore. It's hard to recreate the music I heard from my ESS AMT-1s (outstanding speakers) when I...

This is significant. I hope.   Interesting news.  

It's 109 days later. How did I do? Not very well based on all the "didn't buy" items.   I had a three week in-home audition of Adam Audio Column Mk3 Active speakers (that I couldn't buy in the end due to employment circumstances), which provided voluptuous detail to everything I listened to...

Young the Giant Imagine Dragons My Chemical Romance Good Charlotte   emo garbage  

Does anybody know what the crossover frequency is? Thanks.  

There's only one headphone I know of, the Precide Ergo, that uses an AMT for each driver. There are dynamics, multi-driver dynamics (new JVCs and I think some of the "surround sound" headphones), BAs, electrostats, and planars, and although I'm not aware of any production models I know some...

Suspended Animation by Fantomas is kinda weird. Avant Hard by Add N to X as well.

Awesome surprise.  

Okay, the email came in to the "Spam Prevention Quarantine Summary" so I was able to manually deliver it to myself.   Didn't do as well as I'd hoped. I got 1.5 Hz / better than 91.2% of people.   Used ATH-M50s.

Tried it, think I did pretty well, but apparently work blocked the incoming email.   Oh well.

I agree with your assessment. I love my M50s (with coax pad mod) for work duty.  

First review is in for the new Leprous:   http://echoesanddust.com/2013/05/leprous-coal/   “The album begins with ‘Foe’, all stabbing drums and guitars and a soaring vocal line that ends with a collage of vocal harmonies and melodies weaving in and out like the chorus line of an opera...

Quote: My girlfriend had Rhapsody and we were not too happy with it. Seemed to be constant problems syncing things up, and I don't think the selection would be up to par for my purposes. I mean I understand the "try before you buy" idea that you're proposing, and I did listen to Amazon...

Red House Painters - Mistress, the Piano version   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urbcmEF3TGM  

I'm about to order a bunch of CDs. Should cost me around $450. New stuff by these bands that I have other stuff by: Amplifier (out) Karnivool (date not quite announced yet) Leprous (May 28, looking forward to this more than anything) Tesseract (May 28) Ours (early June) Dead Letter...

My neck muscles are ready.  

Very nice, adding this to the shopping list for its June release.

Do you feel you're getting early reflections off your desk at all? Or is it a more or less direct sound from the AMT tweeter to your ears? Do you have any damping material of any kind on or around your desk or screens?  

disregard -- really dumb double post by me

You're welcome (Amplifier recommendation). I've got their whole catalog -- first album + EP, Insider, The Octopus + Fractal version 2.0 (outstanding package although pricey), and the Eternity and HAL EPs. Wonder of wonders, they seem to be following up their 150 minutes of excellent music...