My Total AirHead is broken, and I'd like to fix it. Namely, the front pin on the headphone output jack has broken, and my temporary fix (putting a book on top of the headphone's plug) no longer works. Does anyone know what part HeadRoom used in there, and if it's commonly available? Alternately...

Yesterday I noticed something odd with my '716s: they seemed to lose their ability to play loudly. In the morning, they sounded great, and I put them on top of my desk after I arrived. In the evening, they were so quiet that I could barely hear them even on "Bass" with the pot set to full and...

I'm planning to buy my sister a pair of earbuds, but she has small ears. The Apple earbuds that came with my 4G iPod were uncomfortably large for her. She's no audiophile, and the output of her HP laptop isn't exactly PowerBook quality anyway, so while they should sound decent they needn't have...

NOTE: Initial post edited to include a sampling of my usual audition pieces that I use for speakers) I'm going to be auditioning the AKG K-1000 soon, and I was wondering if some of y'all could give me some examples of material you think best shows off its WEAKNESSES. To give you an inkling...

Thanks to my Archos PMP3P I recently discovered ID tags for MP3's. OK, I'm a bit slow, but I've named my all MP3's "artist - song (special features)" so I really haven't needed them on Winamp. Does anyone know of a program that's easy to use and will simply convert all my MP3 file-names into...

Has anyone done anything to their '35s that improved their durability? (For their intended use, which is working out and riding public transport, I'm satisfied with their sound.) Mine recently broke -- one of the leads on the right earphone snapped off. I resoldered it, and realised that the...

Reading MacDEF's most recent round of passionate Firewire/iPod advocacy, I thought of a next step. A "docking port" within a laptop for the MP3 player. That way, no dumb cables to carry, no extra boxes to carry when going through airports, and no loss of functionality to people who have the...

Does anyone know of a ultiity to "hotsync" MP3's? Basically, I want to keep my MP3's as tightly sync'ed as the information on my Palm. The problem is, I keep mine in three different places now (a few on my ca. 1997 notebook's massive 4GB HDD, a bunch more on my 6GB Archos Jukebox, and the...

One of the things that annoyed me about my Archos Jukebox was the power adaptor. My AJB is an American (110V) model, and I live in Europe. So, I drove it through a transformer. The bottom of the player, however, got mad hot whenever I charged it. Because I was sick of using the transformer, I...

Well, it appears I'm growing a little stable of headphones. I happened to see a pair of '35's in a shop for reasonable money (e50.10, or about US$45, probably cheaper than having Headroom ship trans-Atlantic) whilst schlepping around my Senn 580s, so I bit. There is, however, a small problem...

I've been seriously thinking about swapping out the HDD in my notebook (a 4GB deal in a Dell Inspiron 3000 with a 233MMX Pentium that once upon a time cost over 5 grand and is now worth maybe 5 bucks) with that in my MP3 player, a 20GB IBM. Is there a way to painlessly transfer everything...

Sometimes little decisions come back to bite you. When I moved to Austria, in the interest of taking one more pair of shoes, I left my '580s at home, in favour of a pair of Koss KSC-50s. I didn't realise what a dumb decision until I came back to my parents' for xmas, driven by a Total...

Has anyone else had problems with the clips of their KSC-50's breaking? My right earpiece is gone, the flexible part cleaved off and a ragged white plastic stump containing a concentric thin wire left in its wake. Quite irritating, because they're the closest thing I have to good music...

A couple weeks ago, thanks to advice I received on this forum and others, I purchased Koss KSC-50 headphones, and subsequently ‘modified’ them with an eyeglass strap per the post by JJDyn0mite. (Many thanks for your excellent post on the subject, sir!) However, until recently I had not had...