Quote: Originally Posted by loudwood ER6i has left and right of the same length. Per your music taste, I don't suggest you to use IEMs. Looks like you prefer LOUD type of music, using IEM means you need to be extremely careful with volume. Try some closed full size cans, that will...

Not an hour ago now I emerged from an intense eBay auction with a pair of ER-6i's to my name. At $84, it's not a steal in the same way the iM716 would have been were it still on sale, but I've managed to move up to the next IEM tier without breaking my budget, so I'm happy. My EP-630s died a...

I'm going to throw my weight behind the Creative EP-630. (As a note, these are to the best of my knowledge rebranded Sennheiser CX-300s) It's sort of a hybrid earbud-IEM. You get a shallow, comfortable fit that isolates better than most full-sized headphones, although not as well as a true...

Hey - I just bought a MacBook and with it got a 60GB iPod at next to nothing, which I promptly Rockboxed. I'm now looking for a decent free FLAC encoder for OSX so I can rip some of my CDs and listen to them - ostensibly the purpose of the iPod, I hear. Ideally it'd one that will let me later...

In case you've never been to a concert, let me remind you that - unless you're dealing with an uninspired live performance by a poorly recorded artist - it rarely sounds like a recording does. Live shows are great because of spontaneous musical creativity. Recordings are great because they offer...

Feature freeze is lifted, by the way, so some of the noticeable gaps in Rockbox should be filling in nicely in the next little while.

Thank you kindly. I will be able to plug the Apple cord directly into the adapter I already have; I've saved me some money through head-fi. Until I buy something significant, head-fi has now made me a profit of ten dollars.

Hallo. iPod owners: I'm going to assume from what I've read that the input for the iPod power adapter is 110-240V 50-60Hz blah blah blah wall sockets around the world. What is the output? I cannot find the specifications anywhere on th'internets (damn Apple and its gadgets-for-dummies...

Quote: Originally Posted by Bob ♫ The 595s were an excellent choice, so you have a good start. In my biased opinion, you should cancel the iPod order and pick up a leftover iriver H140 DAP off of eBay (about $175). While you're at it, pick up an iriver SlimX-350 PCDP (about $50)...

Awesome. Thank you, Febs, for the near-instant thorough reply. Rockbox is looking pretty awesome.

I'm picking up soon a 60GB 5G for cheap cheap. I'll probably be using Rockbox for a couple reasons - crossfeed, Ogg Vorbis, gapless, what-have-you. A couple Rockbox questions: -Will I have video playback on my 5G? If so, what formats? If not, What mate? Is there a timeline? -Apparently the...

Quote: Originally Posted by Alwayswantmore . . . Given K1000s are off ear -- they produce a natural crossfield. . . I've heard this sort of fallacy time and time again. The purpose of crossfeed is to mimic the mixing of channels you get in a room with speakers. Now, let's...

Take a very serious look at iM716. They are essentially modified ER-4P, the ER6i's better older brother. All this from what I understand. I kick myself a little because I just bought EP630s and don't really want to replace them immediately, since they're fine, but I would've gone for these in...

Finally got hold of the EP630s. Enjoying some clarity and isolation with them. A little bit of self-kicking because I could have grabbed myself the iM716 within my price range, but the purchase is made now and I've missed my receiving-things-in-ConUS window. That's life, though. I'm happy...

All good classical et al. music is underappreciated these days, notwithstanding a couple pieces that happen to have been in milk commercials, cell phone ringtones, or Apocalypse Now. We live in a time of unprecedented cultural explosion, and the diversity of music happening right now is...

I think you definitely need to try something with serious acoustic bass to test hear how tight and natural the bass is. And, of course, the best acoustic bassist ever is Charles Mingus. Pick something; I haven't tested, so I don't remember what tracks are recorded well, but I could come up with...

Mingus - Goodbye Porkpie Hat Written as an elegy for saxophonist Lester Young, dead at 49 after a slow and painful decline from alcoholism. I'm thinking of the version off of Mingus Ah Um, for any of you out there who know what I'm talking about. No rock can touch this one.

The PX100 are very, very open. If you're listening loudly enough to hear your music over the noise in the car, then the other people will be able to hear it. Also, your ears will hurt and you'll damage your hearing in pretty short order. Back when the PX were my only decent phones and I had to...

So amps like the Airhead, Porta Corda, and whatnot are fine driving these? Not that I'm anywhere near making that kind of purchase, but it's something to think about.

An extension to this - do you hear about someone using good equipment to listen to absolutely terrible music, and just think it's a bit of a waste? Or a bit futile? I mean, you could have headphones that would bring tears to the eyes of the devil himself, and it's not going to make crummy...

Well?

If you're okay with an open headphone, I have nothing bad to say about the PX-100. Take the extra money, buy yourself a good book, and spend a Saturday reading in your slippers listening to music you like. They are good headphones.

As a very, very recent convert: try some crossfeed - you can just try it on your computer before you sink any money into it - and if you're like me it takes the fatigue element almost completely out of it.

Of course, now I'll have to take it with me. Any free software out there that will add crossfeed to my high-bitrate VBR mp3s? What if I re-rip from my CDs? I may just have to mug a couple of old ladies and buy myself a Porto Corda or an Airhead.

I had my PX-100s, which I've owned since before I came here, plugged into my laptop. I was listening to some old favourite recordings before I went to bed. I felt a bit curious, so I went and downloaded a crossfeed plugin for my Winamp. Oh my f'ing god. There is an aural illusion that...