Thanks for the recommendation.  Finally had the chance to do some review reading and that Mee Audio Pinnacle P1 sounds very promising.  Too bad I didn't get ripped off a few months earlier so I could get in on the sale prices.   I added a pair to my Amazon cart tonight then saw that it was...

Hey guys,   My beloved Westone UM2's were stolen a few weeks ago while I was on vacation.  I had those things for 12 years and they were still going strong.  One of the 5 best audio purchases I've ever made.   I've been using some Apple ear buds at work lately and hate them.  I also have my...

  The Asgard 2 I just got has RCA out.  So I'm running my Modi 2 Uber DAC straight to the Asgard, then interconnects from the headphone amp to my stereo amp to drive my tower speakers.   The volume control on the Asgard works for the RCA outputs so it makes a really pure and clean stereo...

  That thing does seem to offer a lot of performance for the money.  What part of Tennessee is home for you?  If it's around Nashville, buy that thing then look me up when you're home and we'll compare to the Schiit stuff I just bought.  I would expect the performance to be very similar.

Headphones have diminishing returns as the price increases, just like source components.  And without source components of some baseline quality level, you are not going to be able to hear even the detail of the HE400i.   Now, what that baseline quality level is can be debated all day.  In my...

  No, I'm saying the electrical signal traveling across your interconnects and speaker wire is AC.  When playing any sound, the current does not just travel into one side of the driver and out the other.  It changes back and forth, depending on the frequencies.  Otherwise we wouldn't be able to...

  Yep.  This is an AVR-55 which was a high end HT receiver back in it's day but pretty worthless for that job now.  A few minutes ago I realized I could remove a couple jumpers from the back and wire straight into the amp so it bypasses everything inside the receiver.  I also lost volume...

  There's nothing wrong with this Schiit.  I've got it playing through a 15 year old Harman Kardon receiver to a set of tower home theater speakers.  Sounds about as good as these speakers are ever going to sound.     I've got some spare tubes for this headphone amp.  I'm gonna try swapping...

      For what it's worth, that isn't what happens with the signal driving your headphones.  The difference between AC and DC is that AC changes polarity, which means the current changes direction.  So when we say our frequency is 20 Hz, what we mean is that the polarity and current flow...

  I was hoping I got my order in early enough for them to ship it yesterday but it didn't happen.  I did get my Modi 2 Uber yesterday though.  Hooked it up using USB playing through my really old tube amp but I'm getting some distortion through the right channel when the music gets loud...

  I'll have to check it out sometime.  I finally decided the 5 year warranty and not having to wait for someone to post another unit for sale was enough to buy new.  Just placed the order with Schiit a minute ago.

One of the worst songs I've heard lately for making sibilance stand out is Sweet Jane by Cowboy Junkies.  You can hear just the slightest amount when she actually says sweet jane in the song.  But I don't really think the headphones are creating anything that isn't in the recording.   EDIT...

Did one of you guys grab that Asgard 2 from the classifieds today while I was screwing around trying to decide what to do?

  Since you didn't answer my question, I have to assume you have not actually heard either the Modi 2 Uber or the Magni 2 Uber.  Which is exactly what I expected.     Schiit is in business to make money.  If there are people willing to pay more and more money for the diminishing returns of...

  I'm curious if you have actually heard the equipment you are calling poor.  If you have, what specifically about the Modi 2 Uber and or the Magni 2 Uber were substandard?   I have a Modi 2 Uber being delivered today.  At least I hope it will still be delivered even though we have snow this...

So have these always come with angled pads?  I wasn't expecting it for some reason.  I actually thought the front of my pads got squished down during shipping when I first got them.

After leaving a message with Audiolab yesterday afternoon about my cable problem, I got a call back from them this morning.  They are sending me a new cable which I should have by early next week.  They didn't ask for my old one back.   -Chris

  Did you read the last couple pages?

  I just ordered a Modi 2 Uber this morning so I should be able to comment in a few days.  I haven't decided for sure what amp to run though.  I was planning to use an old tube amp I've had in the closet but I got it out and listened back and forth between it and the amp in my NAD D 1050 some...

I left a message with Audiolab support a minute ago about my cable problem.  They show to be open until 8:00 tonight but maybe they don't do support stuff that late.   While I work out how to get a replacement cable, can someone recommend something aftermarket?  I am NOT a believer in high...

  Thanks.  Somehow I didn't discover Steely Dan until recently.  I've got Aja and like it.  Just sampled a few tracks from Two Against Nature on iTunes and decided to buy it.

What's wrong with the ones I bought?     This isn't like a present or anything.  I just got her some headphones that I expect to be significantly better than what she is using now.  I mostly decided to get them because of the price after I used about $80 worth of credits and points at Sears...

These are for my wife and I doubt she would know the difference.  I'm still pretty happy with my 10 year old Westone UM2.   I decided to go ahead and order the CKR7 so she can try them out.  I'll give them a listen and we'll return them if there's a major problem.  She's using the stock ear...

Do you guys think the CKR7 would be a decent choice to get my wife for her first IEM?  I can get a pair from Sears for about $20 right now with a bunch of SYW points I've got.  She will only use them plugged into the headphone jack of her iPhone.   Thanks, Chris

In my case the 2.5mm connections to each side of the actual headphones seem to be fine.  It's the 3.5mm connector that plugs into the amplifier that has a problem.     I just got the amp Saturday but I've been listening to it a lot with my IEM's and my AKG K271S without any problems.  And it...