Well enjoy perusing their site for "deals" on five thousand dollar preamps .  And stop in at the shop for a wall of "Ohmyholygod" (nicely stocked headphone listening bar).  Seriously, even though the have some ridiculous summit-fi stuff, they also have much more affordable pieces, and their...

These probably won't be around too long.  Echo is pretty popular (and deservedly so) here in Portland, and have hosted Head-fi meets in their retail space.  Many things sell on their first day up.

Hey, I haven't seen this go by yet, apologies if it's a duplicate:   For the DAP shoppers, Amazon has the DX90 at $360 (which is like ten bucks more than Mass Drop is going to charge - even if they get to the lowest price).  ...

For those who have been watching for DAPs, some are dropping on that one site, including a swanky $700 unit I've never seen before (designed by a Colorfly Alumnus)   https://www.massdrop.com/buy/luxury-precision-lp5-music-player  (as low as $699)  ...

Upcoming Amazon Gold Box Deal:  Bowers & Wilkins P3 (Refurb).   Also upcoming, Sennheiser Momentum (on ear), but I figure everyone has had plenty of chances on Senns over the last few days.   EDIT:  whoops, sujitsky beat me to it.

Anyone know if his applies to items in the Senn. Outlet?  I clicked through, but didn't find the information.

Hunh...   I had thought all electrostatics were planar.  Thanks for mentioning that, I'll have to do some reading, I guess.  Only downside to that being I will begin to believe I need them.  Looks like the deal starts at 2:30 US West Coast time.

looks like the Koss esp-950 (planar) cans are going to be a lightning deal on Amazon in a couple of hours.

My used Fiio E7 from Amazon seller arrived yesterday (in Portland), and looked legit as far as my untrained eyes can tell.  I was in terrific shape, but you wouldn't mistake it for new.  Charged up via USB, worked great.  Only putting this out there because my previous post had been pretty...

I think Fiio employees might be on holiday break right now.    I wouldn't feel too bad about missing out, it was a very low price, and they appeared to have quantity (on a used item).  I'm guessing it's fake: from a previous reading of Fiio's website, it looks like their first line of...

I don't know if this is typical, but when I picked up the ATH-M50 from BuyDig.com for $89 a week or two ago, they came with a $10 coupon (non-stackable) for my next purchase.  Doesn't exactly make the original purchase 10 bucks cheaper, but if you know you're going to be buying something else...

Quote:   Since you're a seller, I'm sure you have thought more about this than I have, but it's worth remembering that these offers aren't provided out of affection, or generosity, they are there to make consumers less hesitant to make purchases in an environment where there's a...

Shaa... I wish.  I'm afraid I'm more like this.   Sorry for the non X3 content.  I promise I'll stop.  Besides, I'm getting sleeeeepyyyyyy....

I don't know about you, but I keep hearing that the dedicated DAP is on the way out due to people using their phones and tablets.   But I don't believe it because I see many companies releasing new DAP's (Fiio, Hippo, etc).  And it seems to me they're releasing the kind I want to see...

One thing I haven't heard much about is accessories. Hopefully we can talk about accessory wishes/suggestions without drawing too much ire...   I remember seeing this silicone render (I think it's a render), and the wallet-style one below.     But given that this is a piece of...

Hi James,   Here is a +1 for leaving the extension in, just how you've shown it (or including file information such as type and bitrate on the now playing screen).   For some of us, that information is important, or at least useful.   The more information, the better, as far as I'm...

Hmmm...  This got me wondering:  on the Fiio Facebook page, in a post of photos of X3 and other DAPs, Fiio says:   "FiiO will try to support Thai in the future, we can do that when we have enough time, and it is very easy to upgrade the firmware by our customers"   Wait, what?  Does this...

Doing an interest check:   I've got a Sony NS9100 ES that I picked up recently.  I bought it as a nice transport for SACDs, but I don't actually have any SACD's yet ~ I just couldn't pass up an ES unit for 25 bucks (Mmmmm....Goodwill).    Got Dark Side of the Moon on the way, but might...

That was my first thought too, upon reading the article.  

Mods, this seemed like the place for this, but if it's really more of a lounge thing, by all means, I'll move it.   Here's a snippet of the article from Gizmodo   "You might know this; you might own a pair of beats that still has Monster's tiny, subjugated logo printed on them. But what...

Any point in bringing a Senn. HD600?  I'd imagine they have those on that "wall of awesome" in the picture.   ~john  

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I don't know if the OP (or anyone else) is still looking at this thread, but here's another thread that seems relevant to the Ety bass optimizing.   http://www.head-fi.org/t/626457/nrb-mod-nut-rattlin-bass-from-an-ety-yes-yes-yes-how-to-nrb-mod   It's pretty much just swapping out the...

That's funny, I asked him the same question a few days ago (also for HF5), before seeing this thread.   He did mention to me that he can put a new jack on them, which is the part you had to replace once (same here).  Not to take away your reason (or in my case: excuse) for trying something...