Hey there, guys and gals.   I recently purchased an AK Junior along with a pair of Sennheiser HD650s. The pairing seems great to my ears, much better than my previous iPod Video 5.5.   I've been looking into an OPPO HA-2SE as well, to add to the mix.   My questions here are in regards to...

I checked it out online - the website of the dev is very weird, English mixed with Japanese and all that.   [Removed by Mod]   This is the website of the player: http://oryaaaaa.world.coocan.jp/bughead/   For some weird reason, the application requires that you have a CPU that supports AVX...

I myself have always used Foobar, ever since Winamp was discontinued. By the time I was using Winamp I didn't really care about sound fidelity and bit-perfect sound, though - never heard of Bughead Emperor before.   Can anyone outline the main differences and advantages of BHE over Foobar ( if...

Thank you, that sounds very practical and sensible. Will let him know as soon as I talk to him!

My point is consoles shouldn't really exist in the first place, since they are useless compared to PCs. If they didn't, there would be no licensing issues.    My username is actually something quite random I came up with - there is a spell called "Starfire" in World of Warcraft :D

PC Master race here all the way! Always been a PC games, I tried to like consoles, even bought a PS3 a few years ago, and I sold it shortly after that. Just doesn't do it for me.    Consoles, in my opinion, are a waste of money. Everything you can do with a console, you can do on a PC, a...

How is a closed back headphone supposed to sound like HD600? I personally haven't heard them, but from what I've read about them, they are one of the most open headphones out there. You cannot emulate the soundstage of such an open headphone into a closed back one - not that I'm an expert in the...

580s were my very first introduction to the world of Sennheiser. I had almost no clue about sound fidelity and no clear concept of hi-end sound, but I had read great stuff about them and decided to order pair off eBay for 155 USD. I had them for about 2 or 3 years before I moved on to HD650 but...

I'm definitely interested in seeing that response graph too.    I'm usually not a Sony fan when it comes to audio, but I read quite a lot about this specific model and I'm eager to see how it performs from a technical standpoint.

Been hearing marvelous things about this little toy lately. Definitely planning to get one in the next 6 months or so - is it fully able to drive Sennheiser HD650 or HD800 properly? I would suppose so, but I had to ask nonetheless.   Has anyone tried it with one of those phones? Impressions...

Just a quick question on the Titanium HD on behalf of a friend of mine - if he uses the optical out of the sound card to his external dac audio-gd NFB-12, does it still use the card dac to process the sound? Or do he have to connect to the RCA outs in order to use the sound card's DAC?   ...

I see - yeah, that's what I figured, but I had to ask. Thank you - I'm used to open headphones, and since I am also accustomed to relatively high listening levels, I don't usually let the outside noises bother me too much - I just block them out mentally, I guess. So that shouldn't be too much...

I've only been reading about Stax models so far, never had the opportunity to try one out for myself, but I'd love to.    Never tried an electrostatic headphone, so I gotta ask:    Are there any electrostatic PORTABLE headphone amps out there, that could power a Stax while on-the-go? Main...

Very good one indeed. I myself have tried differentiating between 320 kbps LAME mp3s and FLAC on numerous occasions to no avail, basically. Either the music that I generally listen to isn't that sensitive to tiny losses in the stream, or I just can't hear them, really.   I do think that's...

I'd say Meshuggah's Koloss and The Violent Sleep of Reason are exceptional recordings sound-wise. Check them out on hi-end gear if you're into the band or a similar style.   They crush!

I myself can highly recommend Dead Can Dance's latest album - Anastasis. Absolutely superb production, amazingly wide soundstage, so in case you wanna test your gear - that's one of the ways to go.   Another track I can recall using myself was Allan Taylor's Colour to the Moon, and Famous Blue...

Has anyone here had a chance to test out the HD800S coupled with a Muses version of the Asus Xonar Essence One DAC? I got the regular version of the DAC, and vanilla HD800 phones. I'd love to hop on the HD800S train some time in the near future, even though I've noticed no sibilance issues with...

Seeing as this is an impressions thread, I decided to share my own experience with this phone.   A friend of mine borrowed me his 598s a while ago - while the soundstage and details were very impressive, I did find them really lacking to serve the music that I enjoy the most - metal music, and...

You bet on it it's worth it.   What matters the most is the hardware, a.k.a. the phones and chain leading to them. I personally haven't been able to notice a difference between properly encoded LAME 320 kbps mp3s and FLACs, for instance. It's pretty much all about the hardware - if you got...

A friend of mine used to have a pair of Beats ( not sure which ones exactly ). I gave them a listen one time - comparing them to the Senn HD650s that I had then, difference was night and day, at least to my ears. No point in hating the Beats, but I do consider them inferior to the hi-end Senns...

I read a few pages of the thread, since I am myself a huge metal fan ( I also enjoy hardstyle a lot for some reason ). I used to have Sennheiser HD650 a couple of years ago, and metal sounded great on them.    Ever since I obtained the HD800s though ( along with a Asus Xonar Essence DAC )...

Got a question in regards to the lovely Isabellina.   I tried locating the answer in the previous pages to no avail, so I shall ask anyways:     Does it have software drivers to go with it, or does it work straight out of the box, hooked up to the PC? This might have been mentioned and I...

When I bought my HD800s in the beginning of November last year, all my friends were like "Are you out of your mind, bud, I'd never drop that much cash on headphones". Most of them were more like, shocked, rather than impressed. Some of them tried them out and quite frankly, I couldn't get 'em to...

I think loving certain headphones is heavily based on what your life has been when you've been really into them. Pretty much the best years of my life so far have walked around hand in hand with the HD650, so I will never really forget 'em, even though I got HD800 now.   The emotional imprint...