Quote:   I absolutely agree. In fact I would argue that if a DAC is working correctly you probably shouldn't be able to hear the difference between DACs at all. There wasn't a whole lot of logic behind my decision, I just thought that since I had spent so much on my car audio...

I wanted to use an mp3 player to go straight digital to my car cd player that has a coax digital input. During my research I saw a lot of interest on the head-fi forums for digital out from mp3 players so I thought I would share. The only dedicated mp3 players to come from the factory with...

I am running XP pro, primarily used for powered monitors and source for AKG701 run to amplifier. I have no plans to run surround, 2.1 is plenty. It would have to be for a standard PCI port. I mostly listen to music or movies, not much gaming. I'm happy to go to either side of $100 but that was...

Quote: I was a clinician of psychiatry by entire adult life. I wonder, would you be inclined to listen to the average electrical engineer make a call on someones mental well-being? What if the person in question was screaming at a lamp post like a maniac and otherwise seemed perfectly...

Okay, Patrick, say Bigshot does try your cables, everything would be perfect, right? So let's say Bigshot sets up a good ***, all the conditions are agreed upon, everyone is happy. He takes the test and doesn't hear any difference between the $15,000 cable and the cable he ripped from a lamp a...

Quote: no, i wasnt referring to placebo within that test. placebo is caused by a preconceived notion that since one cable has a reputable name, costs 20x more, and uses exotic materials then it will automatically sound better. within the test all the cables looked exactly the same but were...

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Quote: ... Scientist also may not be able to even hear the difference between a Stradivarius and a copy of a Strad or a violin bought on ebay for that matter. In my opinion that makes them (scientists and engineers) useless in the subject of sound. Music trancends 1's and O's. Those who...

Only movie that has ever really freaked me out was Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick was screwed up.

Quote: Driving it to loud volumes and driving it cleanly are two different things. So long as the amp is not clipping, what is the difference?

Quote: $50 on an already fairly pricey headphone can put them outside of the price range for some people... i.e. $299 to $349 can just be too much. Contrary to popular belief, people who love good sound are *not* uniformly wealthy, and some even have bills to pay . True enough, but...

Quote: Ceh?? My technical knowledge of balanced setups is far from perfect but my understanding is that all you are doing with respect to volume is increasing the voltage swing the amplifier can do if it needs to. (As well as twice as fast) Rob. Okay, I am probably going to get...

Balanced will make the music louder at the same volume setting as unbalanced.

Just read this about a new method of measuring sound, and thought it was kind of interesting. Maybe they'll incorporate it into the next iteration of APs?

Pssht, Clerks 2 will blow them all away.

DVDs don't use mp3s as their sound tracks unless you are talking about a divx/xvid encoded version. Congrats on the RS-1s though. I've only had a chance to listen to the RS-2s and they were awesome.

Very sorry for the delay in reply, had to go to work at my other place of employment. Quote: As I have the convertable, and you work for HeadRoom, I will submit myself to a double blind test on the modules I currently have. They all have the same gain and will all provide the same...

Quote: Originally Posted by warpdriver Why work for a company if you don't believe in what they sell (their cables and amps)? It seems you have done your own research and fall into the objectivist camp....But...since you are going to be working there and have access to all their high...

I've gotten to listen to the Beyer 880's and the AKG 701's for 3 hours a piece this last week. I wasn't so impressed with the Beyer's, they just didn't seem to have the detail I would expect in an upper end headphone. The 701's on the other hand, I loved. While the Grado 325i's still edge out...

I just started work at HeadRoom on Monday, just so you know where I'm coming from. Everyone I have met so far has been extremely nice and very knowledgeable in their jobs. They really do care that their customers get a quality product, no one has any desire to sell you snake oil. My...

Clipping is never the problem, it is the excess power generated by the amplifier due to clipping. Unclipped music is, of course, a sine wave. When you start clipping the source, however, the signal starts "squaring". The area under a sine wave (the power) is less than half of that of an...

I actually live right next to headroom HQ. I noticed they had a 4 week wait on the Grado 325's so I went in to find out specifics. They said they would be in at the end of this week or the very latest beginning of next. I understand that didn't answer your question, but it seems like the 4 week...

I started my interest in audio, with car audio and I have spent a significant amount of time/money doing my best to get the sound how I like it. During that time a guy came to manage the local car audio shop who was also a distributor for a high-end german speaker company called rs-audio. I got...