Thank you very much for taking a minute to check those songs boberang. I think in peyroux's case it is deliberately recessed and staticy to give that 50s vinyl feel. Oh well, glad to hear Gardot sounds better, I'm getting ever more interested in these.

That's good news, I'm a big evanescence and Amy Winehouse fan! May I ask, do you have the 10 or 20?

How is instrument separation with something like metal? I'm looking into upgrading my earphone game and want something that can well distinguish the vocals and guitar which often get oddly garbled together and made flat in genres like progressive/symphonic metal. Also female vocals are pretty...

Yeah I would ask an expert too. Hard drives have magnets in them but so much as touching them with a magnetic screwdriver can make it go all kinds of haywire. The diaphragm of a Planar Magnetic headphone is very sensitive so it is intuitive to assume a stronger kind of magnet might warp it...

Sorry for the late reply. Yeah I'm using stock tubes. Was prepared for the warmer sound. When I get a minute I'll throw a video together giving an example of what I'm hearing. Edit: cool, my 100th post :P

So i just finished building my first turntable setup which includes this little dot amp. Playing around with my preamp, my speaker amplifiers, and my turntable's interior preamp revealed that my dot is bottlenecking the mids a bit, making vocals sound hollow. Just here to find some suggestions...

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Oh cool, didn't know there was a difference between the preamps. So just to be sure, I can run my setup as Turntable preamp -> Little Dot -> Receiver -> Speakers And/or Turntable Preamp -> Little Dot -> Active Speakers.

Before I start hurling money at my problems I'm going to ask here. I'm in the process of building my first vinyl audio setup on a student's budget, I have a few pairs of headphones and I recently just got a Little Dot MKiii. I chose it because it will serve as a full preamp and amp for my...

@Mython So how exactly can I go about comparing the quality of a CD with no audio quality info in its description with a set of files I can only sample? For example: One album I am looking into getting is Currency of Man by Melody Gardot. Hdtracks has samples noticably better quality than...

I got a few headphones to start my hifi journey; wondering if it would be better to rip my music from CDs or purchase it from resources like hdtracks. Thanks!

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I would but I don't have a soddering iron :\

Sorry for the late post, but I just want to earn those who are considering to buy these. After a while the volume slider on the cable seems to degrade in quality more than it already is. Right now, no matter how much adjusting I do, the right channel is always louder than the left. If you want...

Looking for noise canceling phones for a band environment. Quiet comfort costs a bajillion dollars. Any suggestions?

Quick question. You know how they make those adapters that allow you to put two headphones on a single input? I am looking for a sort of reverse if that. Where you may switch between two inputs to go through one output. Thanks.

Being new to the community, could someone kindly explain these terms for me? Transparency, decay, soundstage, imaging, & neutral. Thanks.

I only have an ithouch 2g on me and it won't run any equalizer apps because it requires a newer version of the iOS which apple won't let me download because they want people to spend more on apple products. So, I alter the initial question a bit to Sansa clip vs RoCoo p.

I used to own the original Logitech G15, but my brother accidentally it. If you have the desk space it really is a fantastic keyboard unless you're the one who likes the more flush rubberized keys.

Maybe in twenty years when I actually have the 1.4K to spend on pure leisure....

Time for my second hi-fi headphone! So I return here. Price range is <$150 I have a beeet more knowledge of my own preference now. So I am looking for headphones with more forward mids. The Phillips Uptowns are a bit on the soft side. I think the best way to describe the preference is the...

Maybe if you play a lot of RTS games. Otherwise it is extremely impractical http://theperegrine.com/

Something I discovered when using the headphones on my ipod touch 2 w/o the amping; Moving the audio jack even slightly will cause my iPod to switch a song, fast forward, or pause. It gets a bit irritating when my amp is out of power and I want to listen to music.

I absolutely love conspiracy stories.

I've never seen that player before, what's it called?