I'm honestly not the right person to ask as I don't listen to much black metal, so I don't really know what to watch out for. I also think I have some minor hearing damage. I also do not analyse or judge music and equipment a lot.   I did listen to a few songs off of Rabid Death's Curse and to...

It's not like we're poor all of a sudden, but I paid about 30% more for the Polaris than I would have if I bought it before the oil prices dropped. And I will send Jeremy an e-mail right now.   Thanks for the help to all of you.

Won't be safe from surges regardless in this old house. As long as the filtering works that's I'll I care about for the time being. I might try to find a way to pull a cable from one of the few grounded sockets to my setup though. I've had my PC go wonky for several months due to a nearby...

Acrylic and aluminium are purely up to your own tastes. I got the acrylic and I think it looks great, I don't know if there is any difference in interference and whatever between the two. I have the mellow version, but I have not tried to actually change bandwidth yet. Haven't had a need for it...

Will a powerfilter work from an ungrounded socket? Otherwise that seems like a smart investment, might have to import though. The only powerfilters I can find in Norway cost 300-500USD and are 6-8 sockets. Might be able to find something else if I look around more.   EDIT: I lied. I can...

I'm fairly certain it is either the STX that is affected by my GPU or the fact that the wiring in this house is very old, and only specific sockets are grounded. (I'm assuming a grounded extension plugged into an un-grounded wall socket doesn't actually do anything.) Could also be from my...

Anyone else have any experience with hum from the amp? I have some really low volume hum coming from it when using it with my MT220's, but I don't know if that is because of the amp or because of te STX II that I'm using as a DAC. It would make sense considering the MT220 hummed on the STX's...

Any difference I'm hearing I think is just placebo, I consider my hearing to be very detailed even though there is some minor damage. I'll just go with it, it's better than my old MP3's by a lot like this either way. DT770 Pro 80's might not be the best thing to test with, I'll try with the...

So being the somewhat undecisive person that I am I went back into the TH-X00 drop. Might get a 400i down the line if I want something open and more neutral.   I have a question, though not directly related to headphones.   I have started using Tidal for my music listening, and I'm running...

I kind of like the physical pressure feeling when it's just barely noticable, too much and it becomes fatiguing very quickly.   Thanks a lot for answering my questions to both you and bavinck. Will most likely order the 400i's tomorrow. Will be interesting to hear both my first open phones and...

I see, will probably land on the 400i's then, could not find any 400's in the classifieds, nor does the weight complaint some people have had really make me want then. The only question I have is how are the 400i's for low level listening?   I've become more concious of listening volume...

Neat, getting a TH-X00 costs about the same to get to Norway as a 400i costs here. There is also the DT1770 that I've looked at but I assume it's a bit too close to my DT770's and therefore kind of redundant. I'll definitely sleep on the 400i's though.   What kind of headphone would I have to...

Hey folks, is there any headphone that is similar to the TH-X00 that doesn't cost silly amounts of money? I dropped out of the current drop because of wait time and lack of trust in third party shippers.   I've looked at the HE-400i's and I'm not very sure about them yet.   My current setup...

Anyone have any idea how the X00 will fare with a Project Polaris?

So, I just bit the bullet on the Fostex TH-X00. Also hello people of Head-Fi and this thread.