As many of us know system synergy is one of the most important aspects in this hobby. Yet most gear is discussed and reviewed in isolation or in just one specific setup. After all those years I still haven't found many combinations of amplifiers, DAC's and headphones (and eventually additional...

Dear all, so over the last two and a half decades of being in the hobby (the HD580 sucked me in in the middle of the 90's) I have accumulated an ever growing number of headphones, amps and DAC's - much of it in the last few years. Needless to say my office is getting pretty overwhelmed with...

The new Stax SR-X9000 definitely needs it's own thread! So far information has been posted on the general Stax thread here https://www.head-fi.org/threads/the-stax-thread-iii.677809/page-1410 and in the "sponsor announcement and deals" area here...

Dear fellow head-fiers, I'm looking for a high quality wireless solution to bridge the distance from the TV to my sofa so I can listen to my over ear headphones (with cables) when watching TV - but without running a cable all the way through the living room. I also have electricity next to the...

Hey all, today I removed the pads of my newly acquired AKG K872 headphones. They came off very easy - just a slight pull. Now I tried for about 15 minutes how to put them back on ... no success yet, they always come off again. Anybody has some advice for me how to put them back on? Thanks a...

Dear fellow headfiers, Similar to many of us here, I have been on a gear hunt - in my case with kinda high intensity mostly over the last 2 years. On my recent journey to audio nirvana - or whatever else I was looking for - I bought 3 DAC's, 7 amps and over 10 headphones and heard quite a lot...

Introduction Dear fellow head-fiers, on this journey towards audio nirvana which many of us are on, we search for audio gear and related information for hours, weeks and years with no end in sight :) I'm spending a lot of time reading, testing and searching as well but I always wondered if...