Interesting development. Emphasis will be on gaming headphones. Is this good news or bad news? Press release: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230824336695/en/ Sony Interactive Entertainment to Acquire Audeze, a Leader in Audio Technology and Developer of Award-winning Headphones for...

Since summer is rapidly approaching (well, almost), I've been pondering my search for holy grail cans to use in the warm weather. I find that many headphones are good until the indoor temperature reaches the high 70s (mid- to upper-20s C), above which my ears get too sweaty, and I need to switch...

See eBay item Joseph Grado HP 1000 Signature Headphones HP-1 for a pair of classic Joseph Grado cans that sold last week. They had 14 bidders, and went for $1701. Anybody here want to fess up to buying them (or bidding and losing)?

OK everybody, let's all guess the final number of Grado HF-2 that will be built before the limited edition stops production. My guess is 621.

Yesterday evening (Wednesday 1/7) I saw but did not get to hear the Sennheiser HD800 phones before the CES show opened. I posted a few comments about them in Jude’s huge thread. After the show opened today (Thursday 1/8) I got to hear them. I have started a new thread to keep my listening...

When I performed the Markl type mods on my Denon AH-D1001/D1000 (documented in this thread http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f4/mar...-d1000-350167/ ), I saw how easy it would be to recable these cans, and less than a week later, I was inside them again. This thread provides some info on the...

For use at work, I recently got a pair of Denon AH-D1001 cans. My previous work phones (Yamaha YHD-1) had a small, fold flat design that was easy to just lay on the desk, but the Denons are larger and less suited to sitting on a flat surface. I thought about using a banana hanger or similar...

After breaking in my new Denon AH-D1001 for about 200 hours, I was reasonably pleased with the sound of these sub-$100 cans, but the prodigious bass from these little suckers was definitely loose and not well controlled. So, I decided to try to tame it with a few of the mods that Head-Fi guy...

I'm considering doing some markl type of mods to a pair of Denon AH-D1001 phones. The earpads do not appear to come off by rotating, as with the D2000 and D5000 models. I tried pulling gently on the pads, but they didn't budge. I didn't want to pull too hard in case there is a different way to...

After more than a decade of using Sennheiser HD580s, I recently bought a pair of HD650s, and one of the first things I noticed when I picked up the HD650s to put them on is that at the forward edge of the top of the left housing are three little bumps in the plastic, arranged vertically just in...

Buy.com has the Denon AH-D1001K (black version) in stock at the best price I've ever seen, $80.99 with free shipping. (Sales tax is added in CA, MA, TN, and NY. For free shipping, you must manually select that option in the checkout process.) See: Denon AH-D1001K - Buy.com (Screen capture...

Can anyone who owns a HeadAmp GS-1 comment on its sonic qualities as a preamp for use with a power amp and speakers (you know, those giant boxes that are too big to fit on your head)? Is it "audiophile quality" in that respect?

Right now, Buy.com has the AKG K701 for $280, less $20 for using Google checkout, for a net of $260 plus shipping. Best deal I've seen on these phones from a legitimate seller. As a point of reference, their price on the lower model K601 is $299 plus shipping.

I use Shure E4c's with the yellow foam tips. I find that they're good for about a dozen sessions before they need changing. How does that compare to what others get out of their in-ear-monitor foamies? If you use foam tips on your IEMs, please take the poll.

Those of you who love Shure E-series in-ear-monitors but crave more bass, start drooling. At the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Shure just announced a new top-of-the-line IEM, the E500. It's a THREE driver design, two "woofers" and one "tweeter". (I'm not sure anyone should...

After reading a bunch of reviews and comments about the Shure E4c's here on Head-Fi, and tempted beyond resistance by an incredible deal on eCost ($149), I took the plunge. Many people seem to have commented that the E4c's were similar to the E3c's, only with more bass output. I had never...

Can anyone who owns a Sony VAIO Pocket player tell me if it correctly plays back MP3 files with VBR encoding? Info from Sony says it does not handle VBR, but it's unclear whether that refers to the current firmware or older stuff.

Now that I have two complete and very different high quality headphone listening systems in my possession, I’ve done a full comparative review that I thought would be of interest to the Head-Fi community. It’s way long-winded, so grab a fresh cup of coffee and pull up a comfy chair. System...

I've got a Sugden Headmaster with the RC5 remote control. I must say that considering the incredibly high build quality of the Headmaster unit, the remote control is a piece of crap. It looks like Sugden found the cheapest possible off-shore supplier and bought their cheapest possible remote...