Those might be the ones I'm talking about that are being included as spares with the DT-1770. Do they look like this?     Left: Beyer's stock pads on the DT-770 and available for purchase separately as the EDT770S.   Right: The extra pads that Beyer includes in the DT-1770 box...

  Now we just need a SYS Uber for $79 that matches the case finish of the new small Uber line.   (only half-joking... I'd buy it)

An extra set of black pleather pads is included in the DT-1770 box. These differ from the Beyer black pleather pads found on the DT-770-32 and available for purchase separately as the EDT770S.   If you have a 1770 and a 770, put those extra pleather pads from the 1770 on the 770.   To me...

There were also plenty of headphone amps before Schiit came around. Plenty of great existing solutions? Reason for caution. Plenty of mediocre-to-bad existing solutions? Opportunity.   And having used many of these, I can attest to the category's mediocrity. You have either noisy, awful mic...

While everyone's speculating about the new products, given what Jason's said recently, I think these are both plausible and potentially interesting as a customer:   Mjolnarok: (please don't call it that) Mjolnir is awesome and very powerful. Ragnarok sits comfortably above it, offering far...

Excellent timing. I suspect my Gungnir's USB input might be flaky and came here to see if there was a USB Gen 3 coming soon. I can definitely go optical for a few weeks while the product line sorts itself out.

^^^ Yup, that's me. Thanks!   Quote:   The PM-3 and B&O H6 are in a close race for my favorite. Physically, H6 is significantly lighter, slimmer on the head, and has more color options. The H6's earpads are smaller, shallower, and firmer than the PM-3's, but the H6 is so much lighter with...

  The ones I bought two weeks ago (and were so bad that I returned them) sounded pretty thin overall and had noticeable telephone-like midrange distortion — not bad enough that I'd say they were obviously broken, but plausibly bad enough that this may just be how the T5p sounds.   I couldn't...

Agree on the excellent isolation. We may have had very different T5p experiences. I couldn't bear it and thought it sounded awful, honestly. One of my biggest disappointments in any headphone. Maybe I got a lemon. At any rate, the PM-3 is far superior to the T5p I heard.

Sorry, didn't mean to start a big thing. I just selfishly want a balanced cable so I can plug it into my HE-6's Mjolnir at my desk and not keep switching between two amps.

Just posted my PM-3 review over in the impressions thread. In short: They're excellent. Quick note on balanced cabling, since it was asked a couple weeks ago in this thread: The cable is socketed, but the earcup end is just a 3.5mm stereo TRS plug, not a 4-conductor TRRS. I'm guessing that the...

I've been testing the PM-3 all day and added it to my portable headphone mega-review.   In short: it's fantastic.   Sound is very balanced, with a slight treble roll-off and a strong midrange presence. There's a little bit of midrange harshness with some music, but overall it's a very good...

I have (and like) the M500s and will do the comparison as soon as my PM-3 arrives. Best guess so far: the PM-3 will likely have more treble presence. M500 sounds generally good except for its noticeably muffled high end.

  Me too. The world has lots of great planar headphones already, but almost none that isolate well, very few under $500, and absolutely none that can reasonably be used on a plane. This is my primary interest in the PM-3 — it's breaking new ground, and so far, is the only one.   I just hope...

Very much looking forward to this. The $400ish portable headphone category could really use some competition.   Plus, there are so few closed orthos, and the existing ones are nowhere near "portable" (and some have a pretty loose definition of "closed"). Based on what the PM-3 beta testers...

  Exactly. There have been some terrible Beats models in the past, but the current Studio ("2" or "2013" revision) is really a pretty midgrade headphone for the category. I ranked it close to the middle, and it would have ranked significantly higher if it were more comfortable and the ANC...

  I think Pono has three much bigger problems that have nothing to do with Neil Young or its marketing copy:   Streaming. Apple. People like me.   Streaming is straightforward: Buying music is rapidly being marginalized and falling out of the mainstream. Even the major players like the...

  I run my HE-6 from a Mjolnir. I briefly had a Ragnarok that I had to return for shipping damage, and elected to just stick with the Mjolnir for its simplicity, but the Ragnarok is an insanely good choice that you'll likely be very happy with.   (Although it can't power the 009, of course...

  I have average hearing for my age of 32 — I can hear 15 kHz loud and clear, 16 kHz at reduced volume, and not 17+ kHz. My wife has a similar pattern shifted about 2 kHz higher, and she had the same opinions of these three headphones.   All I can say is all I did say — this is what I heard...

Of course a colored-sounding amp will come out sounding like that color. This is a needless provocation. Let's get back on topic.

thank you for that important clarification

  Yes, that will work fine. The size difference of the plastic above the plug is purely cosmetic. "Mobile" in this case only seems to be cosmetic differences.

  You can connect a Magni 2 to the Fiio E10's Line Out port on the rear with a 3.5mm stereo to RCA cable. These are very common — you may already have one — but if not, this is fine.   Preamp outputs are only useful in this scenario if you're going to daisy-chain this to another amp or...

I wouldn't say the HE-6 is difficult to match. Give it truly enough power and it's happy. That's it.   Matching amps to the HD 800, on the other hand, is much more complex because it's not as simple as "more power".   edit:   I think there's a tendency around this hobby to declare certain...

  Again, it was simply my guess based on the nature of the Fazor modification and how closely the FR graph seemed to correlate with what we heard on his 3F. Whether there's a big difference or not is irrelevant to the point I was making — the HE-6 and LCD-3F are both fantastic, but your...