I've had my LCD-4 for a few years now. I look around at new products mainly for curiosity, and to see how technology progresses. I'm as pleased with the sound of the LCD-4 as I was at the start. I am tempted by the LCD-5 due to its lighter weight, but feel no great need to change. My only...

A few weeks ago, the Denon AH-D7000 that I bought about 10 years ago quit working. They'd been well used, and if I could have found a new pair just like them I'd have bought it. For a time I thought I could live without headphones. I have speakers now, which I didn't have 10 years ago. After a...

Being a new Pono user myself, I'm aware of the learning curve. Even with a simple device there are things harder to learn than they should be. Here are some things I've picked up, helped along by Head-Fi member Oneway23.   1. You need the Pono Music World software only to update the player...

Here's a very interesting article from the folks at Stereophile:   http://www.audiostream.com/content/download-week-nils-frahm   Nils Frahm is a composer, and plays pianos built by a friend of his. Their current project is a vertical piano that's close to 4.5 meters tall; the length of the...

I bought an Ipod Touch a couple of weeks ago, based on Apple's specs. Unfortunately the specs were wrong and the device would not work with my Mac Mini, so I took it back.   What I'm trying to do seems pretty simple. For years I had a portable CD player by my bed along with a few CDs, and I'd...

I recently bought an analog-to-digital converter to simplify the process of adding LPs to my computer-based music system. The music library is kept on an offboard hard disk system connected to a Mac Mini, but I wanted to use my Windows 7 PC for the LP transfers because of its greater memory and...

For most of the 1970s I was on something of a quest to get the best sound I could. I listened to many speakers, amps and sources. Having more time than money at the time, I did more research than buying. The final system, before various moves drove me to downscale, used a Thorens TD-125...

I've had some recent experiences with Exact Audio Copy I think some folks might be interested in.   My normal system is a Mac Powerbook, six years old, connected to a 1-terabyte RAID system that holds the music library. I rip in Apple Lossless using Itunes and play back through a Benchmark...

Summary: I'm delighted with these headphones. Anyone looking for balanced, full-spectrum, detailed sound that's not fatiguing would be well served with these, I believe. Unfortunately I can't offer a comparison with other high-quality phones. Some background: I've been involved in live...

There are some records that will never come to CD, so last year I bought a replacement turntable and support equipment: Rega Planar 5 with offboard power supply module Rega cartridge (I've forgotten the model number) Pro-ject Tube Box phono pre-amp The pre-amp connects to a Mackie 1202...

Hi. I've been looking for a recording of an orchestra tuning up. I've searched sound effect CDs, sound effect sites and the library, to no avail. Does anyone here know where I can get such? It doesn't even need to be a professional recording, just something I can get and play legally. Thank you.

I just got a CD, "Strictly Sousa," played by the Dallas Wind Symphony. This isn't the usual bam-bam, crash-crash, oom-pah playing. If you like Sousa marches, you should pick up a copy. Marches played as real music. Sousa was a great composer but his abilities rarely are allowed to shine as they...

My main headphone application is listening while lying on my back in bed. My old Sony MDR-CD6 'phones work well for this, with small earpieces that still seal well to reduce outside noise. The problem is that I can no longer get replacement earpads, and they come unstuck after a couple of years...

A few years ago I had some trouble finding new earpads for my Sony MDR-CD6 'phones. These, to my ears, are excellent and better than the V600 that was my first attempt to replace them. I next tried Etymotic ER-4s. When the seal was good these were great except for the cable noise. So long as...