I had $30 in Amazon credit and got a $50 Amazon card from work for Christmas. That means I just picked these up for $120 before tax..... So now I have two pairs of Planars. If I keep on...I also will need to look for a couple pair to sell soon....but I don't really want to part with anything.

I am craving a second pair of Planars. All I have are the HE 4xxs. If you were buying today would you go with the M570 @199 or the or the 1070s @ $269 to run with a D50 and a schiit magni (I also run a schiit loki so the "it's too high here or there" stuff doesn't impact me much...cause I can...

Yes and no. To be honest, the Mark Levinson in my Lexus and my whole house sonos system (which consists of 3 Play 1s, two play 3s, a play 5, the original sound bar and the subwoofer all spread throughout) are both still way better experiences than phones. Even the cadilliac 34 speaker Panaray...

Hi guys. I am pretty new at this stuff and wanted to see if from you guys there were any easy corrections or worth while gear to add. My goal was just to get an all around good experience and variety without going too crazy or insane. To that goal, i ended up with the following to cover my...

I jump in. I have these cans along side the Senn 58x and 6xx as well as the Focal Elears and some planar magnetics from HE. These Fostex are by far the best sounding and my favorite of the bunch. I reach for the Focals when i want to do classical/indie music and the Focals are amazing in...

I came home to a new Elex and a new Tr-x00 ebony. Both are impressive. I have only had my elex running a couple hours but I did not experience a loss of dynamic range when listening on high vs low on my Magna 3....could be I not getting much dynamic range due to my dac. The onboard DAC on my...

I bought these phones but budget is tight for up steam. Here is what I'm looking at. DAC: Topping D50 Amp: Shiit Magna 3 EQ: Shiit Loki Tidal MQ and hi fi Mobile: LG V35 plus fiio A5 Good enough? My best two phones will be the Elex and the TR-x00 Ebony.

They just did a very short drop, I got the email a few hours ago and the clock started at 18 hours (10 hours left). I debated for 4 or 5 hours as some reviews said the Mahogony was better, others said get the purples if you want bass and other said the Ebony was the best of the bunch (so...

I just ordered the Fostex TRX-00 Ebony. I will say that the HE4xx with the Shiit Magna 3 and the Shiit Loki equalizer will vibrate around on your face w clean bass quite nicely though .

Yay my Focal Elex will be in this coming week along with my 58x! (random post)

Well my shiit magna3 and shiit loki just arrived. Doing some AB testing and I just verified a few things which there seem to be myths about. 1) You can definately get better sound than what a V35 can offer, especially from the bass. And this is without a DAC, just using the onboard DAC from...

Interesting. Mine just came today . Whem I hook my Magna 3 to my MSI SLI plus mobo the mobo is detecting and outputting to the amp as a 900ohm!!! (it auto detects the source)....crazy. Yes it's flat, but I have the Shiit Loki and with the right EQ my HE4xx sound better than they ever have...

Since we just have this one thread, and since I am not going to read 700 pages. Is the first page an updated sticky? I mean, what is the CURRENT top 10 bass cannon list? I want a pair from the current top 10....

But it is allowed in Airports. Everyone walking around with full size Bose and quite a few wearing Sony WH100m2s and I wear my Vmoda M100s. Now if i were to take out some 106mm M1060s i might get some funny looks.... Remember the 80s when the fashion goal WAS the BIGGEST head phones or BOOM...

I am going to wager a wild arse guess and say because the Elex have such a high resolution and low impedence that you are going to get a lot more "background noise" being picked up along with issues with bad recordings. In my tiny understanding of all this, i think that is the point of the...

So what you are saying is...it's "almost" as bad as movie pass. ;)

Is it as bad as being a current movie pass subscriber?

Screw it, Ill think ill pick up the Focal Elex as well..... The reviews are universally good.

But then those 900s come in and wham... lol. It is a never ending upgrade cycle. Do I want to drop 7 bills on some D7200s.... Ill think on it.

Right now I am good with what I have for clean and mid range listening (My wallet has seen enough damage). I do want some more "bass head" phones (My Vmodas are all I have in that category) so am open for suggestions. My research shows the Fostex line of woods are essentially 'base cannons"...

The problem for me is that i store most of my dls on my phone and organize my play lists there. If I am on the desk top I am probably just streaming and not even bothering with files (since I have Gigabit internet). So yea, i ordered an amp and EQ for my desk top, but I am sitting here...

Well, I have both the Fiio A5 and Shiit Magna 3 incoming. One for the pocket and one on the desk . I love the smoothness of the mid lows on the HE4xx. The perfect range for 80s stuff like Genesis, Dire Straits, Peter Gabriel just sound like buttrty goodness on planers.

Tidal now let's you DL to your phone so it works when there is no signal. No streaming needed....just do everything you want and done .I can pick up 1,000 songs in a day for 9 dollars or 19 dollars at high nitrates. I have Vmoda m100 crossfades, shure 535s, HE4xx, Sony WH1000m2, E-mu purple...

So that's what started me down this road. I installed dual 10s in my truck and it sounded like $1,000 of garbage. The Mark Levinson system in my Lexus always sounds good but... I finally figured out my GS8 and crappy MP3s were the reason for the garbage....I got the V35 and things...

Ahh well like I said, no idea what I am doing. I just set it to the highest quality available. I have a 125Gb card in my V35, 256Gb cards are coming down in price and this v35 can handle cards up to 2gb. Right now 300 songs hasn't even scratched my storage capacity (18gb and that's INCLUDING...