Which power conditioners do you use in your system? Are here people who use their high-end system without any of those or maybe with a budget type conditioner thats good? There's so little talk about it on headfi. Can anyone make a cross comparison of common conditioners? I had so far only the...

Is there something like a compendium of Campfire IEMs? The amount of different versions is just not transparent anymore especially with Andromeda and Solaris.

Has anyone experience with north star dacs? Are they still competitive?

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There is this one thing i never understood about this hobby: old headphones and especially old headphone versions seem to be preferred the vast majority of times over the new ones. Some examples: AKG K1000 bass heavy (early version) > AKG K1000 bass light (later version) Sennheiser HD 540 600...

Which tube amps do you guys that live in Europe use? Around 90% of those amps mentioned and recommended in US forums aren't available here. The only thing you can do is look at tests of paid magazines where every amp is very good.

So i don't know if there's already a thread for smartphones in general but if not i'd really like to open one here. We have 2021 and i just can't plug my in ears or my headphones in my smartphone anymore. LG is also offering it's special dac for the last times now. Future LG models won't have...

Is there any possibility that a gain increase above 0dB doesn't result in a massive quality loss? I'm not talking about classic low gain and high gain as high gain seems to be 0db in most amps and low gain -xdb. I'm talking about +xdb. There are many well regarded amps that have this which...

I just ran my Chord 2Qute vs my Metrum Pavane. Both from the same output in the same amp. The 2Qute is significantly louder. Is that normal?

I'm looking for a second amp just for IEMs or just for one pair, the Moondrop Blessing 2 Dusk. Is there a list of amps that work for that, pref. EU available?

So can i assume my AKG K1000 is balanced with its XLR cable?

I'm really sorry for this stupid questions but geometry and arts were always my weakest subjects so i need some help with this. If i turn the headphone wrong on the head so that the frontside is on the back and the backside is one the front but change the cables to right side so that on my...

Does anyone use better sockets? How much effect does it have on the sound in comparison to cables, power strips and power regenerators?

Can anyone link me a useful overview of the different Hiby DAPs that are out there at the moment? I don't find any and the Hiby site itself isn't very informative. I'm looking for specs only. Not impressions etc.

I'm looking for an upgrade of the Sennheiser HD600 and the AKG K702. I really like the neutral sound. Are there other studio headphones that are just like those two headphones but in better? The following headphones were either sidegrades or downgrades for me: AKG K1000, Grado GS1000e, Grado...

I'm looking for experiences of high-end headphones from people who listen mostly to electronic music and pop. Which headphones are suited for that kind of music? I'm especially interested in experiences with the following headphones for EDM: HE-6 HE1000V2 Susvara Stax 007 Stax 009 So if...

Is there such a thing as a R2R NOS DAP? Is is even technically possible?

I really miss a streamer thread on Headfi. At least in my experience streamers or other clean source solution are a very important part in a chain and have massive sound benefits yet they don't seem to get much attention here. Is anyone here that can compare a Lumin U1 to a Sotm sms 200 ultra neo?

Is there meanwhile any streamer that supports streaming Amazon Music HD except for the Bluesound and NAD lineup? I've read somewhat about cocktailaudio in this context but doesn't look really convincing.

I live in Europe, specifically Germany, and can't understand the lack of R2R Dacs. When i look at different forums it seems that for many people R2R Dacs are the nonplusultra and the market in the US seems quite big. In Germany there is exactly one ! shop that offers R2R Dacs and these are the...

Hey guys. Following question: If i have a Dac that can switch between sync and async mode and the dac gets fed by a streamer with a good clock is there any reason to not take the sync mode? Thanks in advance.

I feel like in terms of headphones the aspect of price/performance falls way to short and nobody talks about it. Why? Having heard quite a bit of headphones and possessed a few now i noticed that price and performance do absolutely not correlate at all. I'm very curious what you think which...

This may be the most useless video i've seen on youtube.

Did anyone hear and compare the NAD C658? I don't find anything about it but it seems the only solution for Amazon Music HD.

I have a question regarding streaming in a high-end system. Currently i'm using mainly Amazon Music HD into a Sotm-Sms 200. The problem is that the Sotm only supports Amazon Music via Airplay. Tidal works via Dlna. I'm planning to upgrade my streamer. I really like the Sotm so i'd love to get...