Quote: The MDR-NC300D is the first *** digital *** noise cancelling earbuds. Meaning the first that has full digital processing for the noise canceling feature. Sony's first noise canceling earbuds is the MDR-NC10, from the 1990's.

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Quote: Originally Posted by episiarch Just one thing to add to the above: the AKG K271 Studio automatically cuts out the music when you take it off your head. It's beyond your price range ($200 or so new, $150 or so used), but if you want to be insulated from his tunes whether he has it...

Quote: Originally Posted by quietstorm Thank you for the replies, guys ... *K81DJ is Temporarily Sold Out at buy.com (but i can wait a while, heh). it's a good price there. ... Sometimes the AKG phones are even cheaper at buy.com. I saw the K81DJ for $52 instead of $57...

Quote: Originally Posted by bonethugz er6i? i think not. i know not everyone like huge bass but, er6i? no. just not enough bass. i have and love er6i but not with hiphop and raggae. k26? unless you're a basshead(i am a little bit when listening hiphop, like them ok). k81? i think they're...

K81DJ goes for $57 at buy.com with free shipping. Amazing bass. Good sound isolation.

Quote: Originally Posted by sliberman I must say that I use a little bit of low bass eq with the K501, when running foobar2000 -> DAC1 -> K501. From the suggestions, I think that the most promising closed phone looks to be the K271S, easier to obtain than the W1000. The K271S is...

K501 and Hearo 999. Considering 271S.

Quote: Originally Posted by Skylab If you like the AKG 501 and the Stax, I think you'd prefer the AT W1000 to the Beyers. I prefer the Beyers myself, but they have a very different sonic signature, more bass, less mids than the W1000 which has much less bass and more forward mids and...

Quote: Originally Posted by flamerz Darth Beyer? Are you referring to the DT770 Edition 2005?

I'm replying to myself, in order to bump this question up, and to add the budget for the headphones: Assuming a budget of US$ 500 for the headphones, what should I try first? I live in Austin, TX, and there are very few opportunities (none that I know of) to audition Audio Technica...

Hi, I would like to get a closed headphone to use at my workplace. I need help finding one that sounds as good as the open ones that I like: Stax Lambdas, AKG K501, etc. In the past, when trying some of the closed ones, I did not like their sound. Maybe there are new improved models...

If you're interested in the internals of these Dolby Headphone devices (Creative, JVC, Thrustmaster, Pioneer, etc), check this website: http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/...ode=DH1&srch=1 Essentially the same Dolby Digital and DTS decoding capability of an A/V receiver plus the Dolby...

SACD and DVD-Audio digital bitstreams are not available as digital output from players for two main reasons: 1) The true important reason: copy protection. Content providers do not permit high-resolution audio digital bitstreams to be available without a DRM scheme to protect against perfect...

Quote: Originally Posted by Iron_Dreamer I am not sure how good it would sound, since there are no buffers on the XLR outputs, I doubt it can put our sufficient current for Grados. I believe the output impedance is 60ohms, so I figured based on that it would be ok with the 300ohm...

Quote: Originally Posted by Ferbose I have been wondering about this for a while, too. I actually started two threads about this topic: http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=97583 http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=79944 Based on my experiment I thought...

Quote: Originally Posted by drminky AFAIK, they are compressed @ 224 kbps, so expect the sound quality to be similar to that of a high quality mp3. There should be the slightest of gains over that due to the 48kHz sampling rate, possibly balanced out by the fact that the encoding...

Quote: Originally Posted by Duncan Agreed!! I have here with me right now two different players, one that oversamples.. 1bit 256fs... The other UPsamples... 24bit/192khz Both sound very different... its all a matter of taste (and manufacturer... and budget... lol) The...

Quote: Originally Posted by Blitzula Alright, I sampled a Benchmark Dac 1 for an hour today. I agree with those who find the sound to be thin and bright. I found it to be far too bright at any reasonable volume. Although is was not too neutral or analytical, it wasn't musical enough...

Quote: Originally Posted by Blitzula For me, after having experimented with various headphones/amp/sources, I'd be first concerned with getting the source that had the sound I liked. I've found that my SR80 sounds so much better from my DAC then higher Grados sounded from either the...

Quote: Originally Posted by acs236 I think here lies the key. Once you get out of the portable arena into a decent home player, I think your returns diminish quickly in the source arena. For example, if someone owns a $400 NAD player, a Gilmore Lite, and Grado 225, what would you suggest...

Quote: Originally Posted by johnnylexus I want rich big sound in my living room and I don't have much room for speakers due to the way the bookcases take up walls, etc. I have heard some good things about Denon micro systems. Can anybody help? Price is not that much of an object...

Quote: Originally Posted by Leporello It must depend on your definition of 'decent'. Right now (admittedly tempted by your post ) I'm listening to my Philips pcdp through my Stax Classic system. Now playing Marcel Peres's weird but fascinating recording of Machaut's "Messe de Nostre...

Quote: Originally Posted by The Bench "How is is possible to identify which version supports audio bandwidth to 55 kHz? Through the serial number?" Yes. If you call Benchmark or email me I can track down which board rev you have, although I highly doubt any of you have speakers (or...

Quote: Originally Posted by Ferbose Seriuosly, I would not worry about the transport or digital interconnect at all. It won't (shouldn't) make any difference, as long as your transport is reading discs normally. As for other parts of the system, they all look pretty nice. I would say...