OK, I laid the bait in Tyll's thread announcing the '07 Micro line, but nonebody's taken it, so I'll try, try again. I have an '06 Micro w/Desktop upgrade, and between you and me and the teeming masses in their entirety, I love it to pieces. Despite my humble source (5.5g iPod), between my...

[Wasn't sure whether to post this in the Headphones forum or the Cables, Power, Tweaks, Speakers, Accessories forum, so I split the difference and posted it here. Mods, feel free to move this thread if either or another forum would be more appropriate.] So, as my sig line shows, I recently...

So I decided to have a face-off between my 325i's and the GS-1k's, and after some ambivalence over whether the higher end phones justified being thrice the cost of Grado’s aluminum cans, I began to lean toward the 1k’s after noticing what sounded like greater treble extension than the...

I know, I know, last week I was asking about the GS1k bowls, but dang it, I'm gettin' twitchy to hear what the 1k's sound like, even though my current set up sounds so sweet I can't imagine how it could sound any better. Now I *know* the conventional wisdom is if yer gonna get fancy cans like...

Grado Labs just quoted me $45 to get the GS-1000 "salad" bowls, which I was considering using on my li'l Pestige series model. What do y'all think: Would it be a good and proper investment for my 325i's, or are the bowls they came with the best match for their capabilities (and limitations)...

Well, I've seen the debate, and I understand the consensus is that balanced armature IEMs do not have the burn-in period of dynamic drivers, but I'm here to argue otherwise -- at least in the case of the Shure e-line and albeit w/o any cite other than my own experience. My story begins a...