The Total Bithead helped to clean up my E2cs for sure. I also did the mod suggested here, pry the small, glued in rubber rings in the tips of the E2's out. It opens up the high-end quite a bit and gave me a lot of the missing detail...though it does make them pretty bright. I just EQ them a...

Interesting thing too, some of my favorite recordings of mixes that I did were simply a DAT that was jacked into the main mix of the house mixing console during a live show. (A board mix of a live show only comes out well by "magic" as what you program during a live mix is meant for the room and...

I agree that most people who claim to hear the difference have something missing in their comparison. Poorly encoded examples that people don't realize as such I think are the big offenders. Too many people simply don't understand the settings they are using to encode or are assuming things...

Get the medium which is the one normally sold in the ESD safe bundle that HMC and others commonly sell. The large is for things like heavy gauge work, as in stained glass work or heavy gauge wire. All the DIY stuff can be done with the medium and the tips offered for that handle. The...

The setting is shown in the manual, which I don't have handy. Play it, with the switch on one setting. Turn it off. Flip the switch. Turn it on. If it gets louder, it is now on high. If it gets softer, it is now on low. Should it get softer, that would mean you were on the...

Quote: Originally Posted by KinesongPayaso :::B::: on a side note, i really have no idea how strong headphones/iem isolate sounds is there a site, forum, article, graph/chart or w/e that pits these Hphones/iems against real world noise? instead of just describing them as "the best...

Quote: Originally Posted by Chops Instead of using a subwoofer, why not just use a couple of Bass Shakers and a small T-amp under your seat? It would/could achieve the same if not better results once tuned properly, and would be nearly 100% silent to others in the room. X2...

Just curious, any idea how loud you are listening? Are you listening at 'live' levels, 100db+ ? If so, you won't make it for lengthy sessions at levels like that without at the minimum fatigue and likely actual hearing damage. Long listening sessions require low levels, period. I run...

Quote: Originally Posted by moj0 mm is that true about mastering with bright headphones (and vice-versa)? If the engineer has no experience, yes. Mastering engineers are the top of the food chain for the major labels generally, they make more money than any other engineer in...

A computer workstation, laptop etc. drive with mp3s Total Bithead via USB as DAC/amp When on the move it's a Rockboxed iPod For the main stereo, it's Firefly media server, streaming the mp3 library via UPnP to a Roku M1000 that is toslink connected to a Harman receiver.

I have a K6-3/450 with 512MB in it that still runs fine, though I just swapped out a Sun Ultra 10 for a bit. These two are 'servers' for me, they run 24/7 as long as my power stays up in the house. I've got a 340MB drive that is still fine. I keep it around just in case I wind up with a...

Stick your fingers in your ears until you have a complete seal, that's pretty close to what Shure E2c IEMs will do for noise reduction. Those are true IEMs though and have a complete seal. What you can hear around you with IEMs in depends greatly on the music level. Even at very low levels...

Only from what I've read, but Denon is supposed to have excellent DACs in that series. Improvement in a $200 DAC, I'm not so sure it would be a significant change, particularly if you are just going from the Denon directly into your headamp now and have decent interconnects.

Isn't that right around the time they changed the bootloader? You sure you did *exactly* what you needed to?

Looking around the offices of the job I have and the last several I have had, I see people with advanced degrees who are simply unable to communicate. They are ineffective in verbal communication and worse with the written word. The Internet is a pool that is much broader reaching than my...

There's a little bit of difference with switching the batteries on, but it's nothing I would call major. I use my Total Bithead driving DT880s without any trouble on USB power only. Batteries seem to punch up the sound a bit, but not enough that I bother running on batts all day.

As in tort reform in general, there is a massive need for reform with regard to matrimonial law as well. The entire frenzy is driven by greed and revenge. Of course attorneys, being greedy and smelling the money in the water are glad to drive the whole mess onwards. Combine that with activist...

The LSi series in general are amazing speakers. You won't come close to their potential powering them off of that receiver though. They require very high current amplifiers, most of the folks on the Polk forums or on avsforum that are into the LSi series are using some serious mono block...

I think your speakers are a bit far apart unless you are sitting 20' from them. If you ran your analyzer from a mic in the center with them that far apart, there would be holes in the image most likely. Also, after you try moving them closer together, experiment with the distance they are...

If the lights show that all the components are there, that there is a ground and maybe polarity is off, that's an easy fix. If ground isn't there, it gets more complicated. Though it could just be that it wasn't secured to the outlet well, or wired sloppily. If you test around your house...

Yeah, glad you posted the link to the sample tracks. The album was described to me by a hopping up and down loonie at work that couldn't say enough about how gripping it was.... I think that guy would just stroke out if I fired up some Lamb Of God for him. This BT stuff is very very airy and...

For about $10 at Home Depot you can pick up an outlet tester. I was trying to find a pic online but couldn't. They have a three prong plug on one end into a block of plastic with lights on the back side. Basically they light up if the outlet is live and give a color code to indicate if...

That model juke does not seem to support mp3 discs. Read specs from a few sites, nothing mentioned about mp3 support. Most of the multi changers for home don't have mp3 support oddly enough. What would be slick is a CD juke with mp3 support and video output of album art and track info...

I tend to play by genre and using the freedb tags makes me batty, I always have to go and correct them. I've got Anthrax tracks that someone tagged as 'classical' as an example. I always rip Artist/Album/NN-title.mp3 I've taken to simply putting in a higher level dir for...

Ahh good reminder, I keep forgetting to buy that one.