Balance had been great from the beginning. Just for a while, symbal and hihatt were a little less. Then the balance got back. I’m not sure if it’s burn-in, or caused by amps.

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Borrowed 2 HP amps / Aurorasound Heada and Softone balanced ( both made in Japan ). My audio-gd is warm side. The others are very detailed and fast. Heada is very deep. I love them all. Empyrean shows character of amps. It's just personal taste. I'm happy with xDSD ( via BT ) too. About 60 - 80...

I'm listening to " Acoustic Guitar Trio " ( Wilco's G is one of 3 ). The album includes different sounds from Gs and touching strings etc. It made me tired sometimes before, but not anymore. I feel the Empyrean is so truthful to the source. Technology is advanced now and world class music is...

I'm living in the middle of nowhere. When I visit big cities, I go to the stores which have a lot of headphones. I checked AT's expensive model, Sony, Beyer, Sennheiser 600 - 800, Stax models with their amps, but non of them impressed me. I liked very old Sennheiser's plastic model ( 40 yrs old...

Sorry, but no experience with other TOTL planars.

I would say very well balanced.

I've not been writing for years. However, I would like to thank you all for information provided. It's been so helpful. Recently I've been enjoying Final Sonorous 3 and IEMs. I was thinking to buy D8000. But its weight ( over 500 grs ) stopped me. Then I jumped in the party. No experience with...

Quote: After rockboxing with Windows, connect to MAC. This is the only time MAC can see the rockboxed iPod and you can transfer music from MAC. Then you start to listen to the rockboxed iPod. You connect to MAC and Mac can't see it ( does not recognise it as USB device ). So you can't...

I paid $35 for EVO in Japan.

Quote: I took the felt off and put the foam-pad back. Still 6-7 hours, but it's nice. Thanks.

Got HD681 EVO today. After 2 hours, I love it. Accurate, warm & sweet. I'm listening mainly to  classical guitar. No experience on the other Superlux headphones. I used to love Grado HP-1 ( 1g. aluminium model ). EVO is great HP for poor people like me. I'm living in Japan and have no relation...

Quote: Electric-Avenues PA2V2 was about $60. My personal ranking is 1) PA2V2, 2) Meier ( cheapest model ), 3) Grado 1st G amp in my limited experience. Also Crown's headphone out is fantastic. 

Quote: That's what I wrote. Immediately after flashing emCore and writing aroldan's recent builds, Mac can see the rockbox and I can transfer music from Mac. However, after starting to use ( listen to ) it, Mac can not see the rockbox anymore. Mac can charge it, but can't see and can't...

Quote: The newest was quite powerful, but I didn't like the kick & bass. r868. 

Yesterday, got newest. No problem experienced. 2 min. later, went back to 130110.

Aroldan and Castor Munoz, thank you very much. 130110 is beautiful. I love it

121124 sounded better for me. I don't think Aroldan is doing about it. Some people don't see the sound difference between original iPod and rockboxed one.  So I'm enjoying the mirage.

Updated to 1229, but went back to 121124.

Quote: Same volume, no effects : Rockboxed one sounds better than original iPod.  At least for me.

Foobar2000 is better than Window's player... I feel. The hardware not changed.

Quote: I feel my rockboxed 160G is much better than before in SQ. 

One hour after installing 121026, I love it. Aroldan, thank you very much!

1007: froze once, turn off and restart- OK.

Aroldan, thank you very much for your new build (1007). Waiting for your new builds day by day. I don't know what you did, but the sound image is wider and separation is great. David Tanenbaum's classical guitar harmonics are fantastic. Maybe just mirage??? Not on drugs.