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I have a new APC P11VT3 surge protector that I plugged a few pieces of audio gear into yesterday morning, including a Japanese-voltage (100V) Stax SRM-007TII amplifier that is hooked up to a VCT VT-500J step-up/down transformer.   I'd already forgotten about the surge protector when I began...

I'm clumsy and impatient with dissembling and assembling thing, so I figured I'd ask: Who will perform the spritzer mod(s) on my Stax SR-007II? I'm talking mostly about the bluetac mod and possibly the earpad change. Looking for someone who has done this before — perhaps even more than once.

Steve Guttenberg, "the Audiophiliac," wrote of the Fostex TH-500RP, "This headphone sounds fuller and richer than Audeze's latest LCD-2 and Hifiman's new HE-560 headphones. The TH500RP is downright soulful, and this may sound strange, but it makes digital recordings sound more like analog...

  They're not too big on her, are they? ;-)

"Customer review" under an Amazon listing for a pair of headphones that costs three grand: "after i left the caviar store i got into my golden bugatti to my marble house on the moon i sat down and put these headphones and then from the bass from the speaker my head exploded." Why the...

These days, I listen to headphones a lot (hours each day). The thought occurred to me that since the gear I have now sounds so smooth, I may be inclined to turn the volume up more than is good for my ears. With low-fi and mid-fi, that was never much of a concern for me — when I'd turn it up, the...

Bought a Fulla, which arrived today.   I cannot make the thing work. The Sound panel in System Preferences never shows the Fulla option, so I can't select it. I've restarted the computer (a 17-inch MacBook Pro running the very latest OS), still no luck. Tried a different USB port, a different...