Friends, I recently came across a family heirloom. It is a cassette tape recording of my wife's grandfather singing and playing guitar, his favorite Johnny Cash songs I believe. This was recorded sometime in the very late 80s or early 90s shortly before he passed. I would like to have it...

Does anyone know of an adapter for the original He400 to convert that to a 2.5mm female so I can use a very expensive pair of balanced cables I own with them? I could always tear it apart and install 2.5mm females on the cans... but I have owned these he400 for a number of years and I want to...

HD650 - balanced   Is my favorite headphone. Is there anyone else out there who adores this thing like me, and wants to move onto another set of cans but can't find anything worthy?   He400i was a sidegrade... i like it for electronic music but, doesn't provide the enjoyment of the HD650 and...

Purchasing a new HD650 and going to pair with Jotunheim, I would like to use in balanced mode as I've heard good things. Has anyone converted stock cable to 4pin XLR? Are there 4 conductors all the way down to the stock plug? are the wires easy to work with? covered in enamel or any other...

decided to replace the 3.5mm jack on a stock dt880 cable.   cut the cable.   stranded enamel wire. why the hell do they use enamel wire?   How do i tin a solder this stuff??

I have an audio quest dragonfly on a mac.   Will setting my system output sample rate to its maximum setting provide better audio given all of my music comes from spotify premium, which I'm guessing is at best cd quality 16bit 44.1?    If not, does it negatively impact the sound quality?  ...

My DT880pro (250ohm) came with a slightly bent 3.5mm connector, its warped enough that I think I may be damaging my 3.5mm female connections. Anyways, Ive ordered some new 3.5mm connectors from markertek and I was wondering if anyone knows, off the top of their head, on a stock DT880pro cable...

Sold my audio engine A2. After a full year of wanting to fall in love with them, i simply can't. The boomy bass just pisses me off, and I'm sick of having to fire up sound flower and aulab to reroute the audio through a good eq. anyways. I'm looking at the following    Creative t40 series ii...

Hello all, I am new to the forums, seems like there is a wealth of knowledge here so I thought I'd pick your minds before I keep spending and spending. So here's where I'm at. Audioengine a2 , audio engine d1, 250ohm dt880 all connected to my Mac, all of ny listening is done at the desk. I've...

So I just purchased the AudioEngine A2, I'm very satisfied with the sound quality. To fill in the bass a bit I have purchases a Polk Audio PSW10, does anyone have the same or similar setup? How did yall dial it in /wire it up? What is the general consensus with the audio engine speakers? Coming...