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A900LTD They're more handy than the RS2 in a lot of ways. More sturdy, comfortable, and provides better isolation from noise (coming from my computer). So I have them for everyday use. Saving my Grados for those moments of serious hi-fi listening.

Quote: Originally Posted by markl I'm completely against the balkanization of Head-Fi. I was against the High-End forum (and now that we've seen it in operation for some time, does anyone see any value add?), I'm against this one, too. What do we call the regular headphone section...

Quote: Originally Posted by soloz2 ouch, I'm glad I ordered before they hiked the price! I'll have one on Friday. The thing you have to remember is that, yes there likely are and will be better cards out if you're purely looking for sound quality, but there's a segment of us...

Ok made some reading, Itunes in Mac OS is supposed to be bit perfect, as long as the volume is set to max and no eq is active. So it sure sounds a bit strange that the sound quality is that bad.

Quote: Originally Posted by Chri5peed There is a foobar pass-thru for itunes to play bit-perfect. But foobar isn't available for mac.

So maybe you need to switch media player, or worse, get a new soundcard. :/

I could be totally wrong here but, but maybe it has something to do with the computer not outputting the signal bit-perfect. Does your soundcard support Kernel Streaming or ASIO? Itunes don't, from what I know.

Ok, maybe I'll try it tomorrow.I gotta go to bed now.

Quote: Originally Posted by wualta You don't need to pull the earpads off; all you need do is push or scrape in with your thumbnail to uncover the screw heads. See Joop's photo.. http://home.hccnet.nl/joop.nijenhuis...1/RHP1P039.jpg ..to find where the screw heads are...

Quote: Originally Posted by wualta ...Alucard, you say your HP-1 sounds muffled. Where did it come from? would it be possible to get you to disassemble one of your HP-1 cups to see what sort of surface the driver has?... I got them from my former girlfriend. She inherited them...

Quote: Originally Posted by joop nijenhuis ...But it is very, very important that your power amp can handle the HP-1. The 10 Watts power rating is not noted down just for fun. Only an IC-amp like the 741 or 709 and its successors isn't enough. If power demanding sound is present than...

Quote: Originally Posted by cyberspyder +The A900 is a "jack of all trades" +It's good for almost anything +It doesn't require and amp -It's big and clunky -The headband is a bit weird I don't feel the headband is weird at all, they fit perfectly and are very comfortable. At...

It seems it's either this (without USB) or the Apogee MiniDAC for me. But I'm still a bit unsure. I'm just worried that it'll be to tuby if I pair this with a tube amp, such as an SP Extreme. But maybe my Grado will like that. I'll be following this thread for a while and see what happens.

Stop tempting me guys. =D These seems to be a good candidate for my next hp purchase. It's great that they seem to like tubes, as my RS-2 are supposed to do that as well. So maybe I have to get a SP Extreme then... I am sorry wallet. :P

Wow that's a very nice price. Thanks for telling! Quote: Originally Posted by milkpowder $651.55 shipped within US for the MiniDAC without USB or Firewire. Shipping to the UK will cost around $40-50 by EMS. I'm looking at about $700 delivered to the UK if a Head-Fi'er is willing to...

I meant that it looks like I have to buy a new unit. And then I would chose the firewire version over the usb. (As they seem to cost the same from what I've seen) Maybe I should have been more clear.

Quote: Originally Posted by Don Quichotte Coax is slightly better - more impactful and better defined (USB with ASIO, etc.). The difference is small but noticeable - OTOH, USB does not sound offensive by any means, the sound has the same basic character (unlike the 1/8 and the XLR...

Quote: Originally Posted by Don Quichotte Trying for yourself is the best idea anyway. I just remembered two other inexact pieces of information I got from the Apogee guy: he said the Mini-Dac features a "high quality Swiss made potentiometer" (it's an ALPS, which is a Japanese...

No I haven't given up hope yet. As the iPod is my first dap and I have read there are a lot of others that sounds better. I would love to get the Kenwood HD30GB9 but got a bit turned off when I heard about the background hiss.

Quote: Originally Posted by roastpuff You need to use iPod line-out for it to sound good... the headphone-out on iPods is really lacking. Yea I thought so. But I don't want to lug around an amp all the time. :/ Quote: Originally Posted by Musicman1212 did u expect...

Last month I bought a 5.5g 80GB iPod on eBay and it arrived two days ago. After the recommended initial battery charge of 4 hours I started to rip some of my CD's to the harddrive using iTunes and apple-lossless. I must say that iTunes is really handy and easy to use, and I just love that it...