Hello! I just developped a little Windows iTunes Remote server for my father. Basically, it does all the basics that the Remote app does on the App Store, except it's a web application and you don't need Windows's horrible "Bonjour" service to detect your library. Being web based, you can use...

For me the DT990 is an exaggerated version of the DT880. You take that metallic treble, push it up 2 or 3 notches. Same for the bass. IMO if you have the DT880 already it's not worth it.

C'est parce que c'est bel et bien du cynisme commercial, Jason ne fait pas dans la dentelle quand il est question de marketing.

Anyone with either Gungnir or Yggy tried the new Chromecast 2 with optical ? Does it light up the "buy better gear" light?

Greed. 

That's great, now you don't have to worry about what you are plugging them into, just enjoy them!  

Having Valhalla to run IEM is a strange idea. It's like using an excavator to move a single grain of sand.

High impedance, low sensitivity, even phase response.

I feel like either it's 10k or 40k, it's the same people that will be buying it anyway, so why not ask for the big bucks.

According to my ears, Fulla can get the HD650 to mad loud levels.

As people said arround here, just use your E10 for a while without minding it or "looking" for an improvement too much, just enjoy your music as usual. Then say a week or two later, switch back, and see if something is missing now.

Personally I'd stick with low gain for greater play on the volume pot and technically better noise/THD performance.

For the curious that missed it:   http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wP9J18PvzkcJ:www.head-fi.org/t/701900/schiit-happened-the-story-of-the-worlds-most-improbable-start-up/7305+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca&lr=lang_en%7Clang_fr

Would love the amplifier comparison fed from yggy. Keep us updated!

I think microsoft went a little too soft on their new shiny error message, you all know what it should have been...

The HD650 pads are shallower, but the shape of it contours your ear, so you should be fine

High gain pushes more voltage if you need higher volume, but it comes at a cost (higher noise and distorsion, among other things). If the volume you get at low gain let say at 3 o'clock on the knob is good, then you should stick there instead of going high gain at 10 o'clock (just an example)...

It's the other way arround, none of them should need the "high" setting. You want to use low gain as much as possible and push the volume knob near max in that setting if necessary . Otherwise, you'll attenuate heavily a high power circuit with more noise and distortion, which is just silly when...

 "with over 2,000uF of filter capacitance" from Schiit website. If you want to know why it takes so long, read that article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC_time_constant

+1 for headphone stand with Schiit aesthetics.

I think Stan has a point and so do you.  How I see it: 1) Stan is tired of people associating sound benefits with power ratings. 2) You are tried of people telling you you shouldn't hear a difference between two amps with flat freq response and inaudible level of distorsion. Both...

I like how people now all of a sudden have an opinion on sigma-delta. I see tons of people now arguing over types of digital filters, old school R2R ladder topologies, absolute phase, oversampling... I actually had a few EE classes in college, so I get the basics of all of this, probably more...

I find it quite surprising. I see all those people complaining about the 2 years+ wait time from Headamp and when a unit pops up on the used market (that you can get a listen to this weekend if you want), nobody wants it. I guess people like to pay for the excitement and the desire of a product...

Which is inline with the pricing from Headamp for a new unit, minus taxes and the wait time.

Saw a BHSE with rk50 on Canucks audio mart if anyone wants one right now...