So...somehow one of the nozzles on my e500's got cracked and is now broken =( On the e4's the nozzles are easily replaced, but on the e500's it doesn't look like I can simply swap in a new nozzle. Has anyone else had this happen to them? If so, what did you do? Will I have to send them in to...

Anyone else notice quite a bit of sibilance in the e500 in certain songs? I've tried a bunch of different songs, and I notice quite a bit of sibilance (at least that's what I think it's called). It's not there in every song, but it's there in a lot. I first noticed it when listening to dianna...

I've read a lot of good things about the juli@ on here and it makes me wish I would have known about head-fi.org earlier. When I built my current pc, I mostly built it for gaming so I got an xfi. However, now I mostly use my pc for listening to music. I currently use foobar, audio creation mode...

Hi. Someone loaned me their Sugden Headmaster. I have it hooked up to my Rotel cd player and for some reason it sounds like everything is in mono? Recording that have a guitar, for example, in the left channel now sound like the guitar is right in the middle. Things don't pan from left to right...

Would the E-MU 0404 using optical out to the Micro DAC have noticeably better sound quality than an x-fi using optical out via the front bay X-Fi I/O Drive connected to the Micro DAC (Micro amp used as well).

What's a good, reasonably priced optical cable for the Micro DAC - something around 50 bucks or less? Is an optical input better than coax or usb? Also what kind of optical cable inserts into the micro dac? I find the instruction manual to be a bit misleading because it says that a typical...

Hi. This is kinda like two threads or two questions in one. First, I'm looking to buy a new portable headphone amp in the pricerange of the amps listed in to the topic ie 300-400 dollars. Currently I have HD-595s, Grado sr-60s, and shure e4's. I will be getting the shure e500s when they come out...

Hi. I donated some money and was just wondering how I get the 10% discount. I think this might be my first post here, but I've been reading the forum for about a year now.