looking for an upgrade from a budget-fi setup.  midfi i guess.  budget is around $1200US.  I listen to all sorts of music.  basically i want comfortable headphones for metal, heavy metal, virtuoso guitar rock, atmospheric (sigur ros), old R&B, movies, etc.  this is arranged in order.  more...

sorry i stepped away from you head-fi.  i sold my gear off in a desperate financial time and am just now revisiting.   I need a jack of all trades.  A main rig.  Full size, over the ear.  Open is fine.  It's for home, if she can tolerate xbox she can deal with some headphone noise.  ...

want a USB dac for home. must have multiple outputs so i can avoid switching. want burr brown or similar super high quality opamps. basically i'm looking at the hippo hifi bloat. something like that with multi outs would be spectacular. i want to be able to go into a head amp as well as a home...

my setup should be listed below. if not i'm using an M-Audio FW solo out to a DV 332. i play DT 990's and i've never been extremely happy with them. i'd say my problems with this setup starts with a complete lack of mids. i listen to alot of guitar laden music and my current setup always...

i need some IEM's for the gym and for when i'm on the bike. i want IEM's so i don't have to worry about sweat on them and i want something that will go far enough in my ear that it won't disturb the fit of my helmet. just don't want something so small they'll get jammed in my ears. oh yeah...

setup is in my sig. i would like less bass, lots more mid-upper mid and not as much brightness in the highs. something more fluid sounding.

where can i find a better cable for this thing? i googled but that just brings up headfi posts. what would it take to make my own? i've already rewired my beyer's so i think i can make a cable.

i'm getting a crackle in my right ear. if i unplug my source from the amp the amp still crackles. if i plug my phones into the source it's dead silent. what can cause a crackle like this in this amp and how do i go about fixing it?

i've never bothered looking into senns much but my new DV332 and my 990's don't always agree with each other and i feel i could benefit from a new pair of cans more so than a new amp. i listen to rock and "extreme" metal. bits of electronic and blues with a touch of classical. also a big...

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i consider myself a noob still and as such i'm still looking for my sort of sound signature. these dt 990's are my first and only experience with true hi-fi headphones. that being the case i'm going to review these for you guys and maybe i can get some clues as to what products to look for...

just got an ipod. need something portable for them since the beyer's are far from mobile. a post in the DAP forum suggested IEM's and i've been reading about them since. here's the situation. leaning towards SE420's. originally i liked the SE310's but everyone seems to think that the 420's...

any word on how these do with more rock oriented tunes or are they above that line where they can do all things well?

looking for something to go with my new 80GB Classic. i would like to have it sound well straight out of the iPod. amping is in the plans perhaps but i'd rather not if i can get a full sound with rich mids from just a headset. anything grado sized will be too big to be portable enough...

my soundcard only has 1/4" balanced outs. would it be possible to feed say the heed canamp with a 1/4 to RCA

i'm looking at getting a high quality DAC in the future but i need to know about this optical stuff. my current lesser quality source has an optical out. most of the DAC's i'm looking at use an optical input in place of USB. simply put the USB DAC's are a bit more costly and the money would be...

having trouble wiring my connector. i read the how to make an interconnect thread but i'm still slightly confused (measure twice cut once). how you like my drawing? ok so i have this connector. on the top half. obviously the big peice on the left that clamps the to cable is my...

i don't knwo how much i'm splitting hairs here but i would like to know. basically i'm ready to upgrade something here. i'm ampless but my source would be my weak spot if i got an amp so it doesn't seem to matter which way i go. soo, on to the meat. i know they're both very clean but is there...

aside from the lunchbox everything is around the same price. i included the box cause it seems everyone says it performs above it's price. so what's the break down. i'll be powering the 990's in my sig. i know the darkvoice amps are becoming the FOTM so i expect alot of fanfaire from it but...

i have 03 990's with the stupid coil cable. at this point i'm thinking of running down to rat shack buying a headphone extension cable and cutting it down to fit. problem is, after being a ratshack employee, i know their quality isn't exactly par. anyone have any good recommendations on CHEAP...

or am i hearing things improperly? listening to "take your whiskey home" and eddie's guitar sounds completely natural while dave's voice sounds completely secondary has a distorted tone to it. like he's singing through a guitar amp.

sorry to put this here, it's more of a general question. currently i'm running my onboard sound (Realtek on board sound. 86db SNR, fairly decent distortion yadda yadda) to a set of logitech 2.1 speakers and using my DT990's from the jack on those. now my planned upgrades are an external...

grabbed my first serious pair of phones. for anyone that, for whatever reason, recognizes me; i went with the beyer DT990. overall i'm pleased. i'm not getting blown away in any regard though. my setup is certainly lack luster and i fault it for not being able to maximize these phones...

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i understand the differences on a pretty basic level. for instance i know the 990 isn't as simple as an 880 with boosted lows. at present i'm more interested in the 990's simply because i listen to a very wide variety of rock/metal music. anything from dream theater, dragonforce, dark moor...