Short answer: yes. Explanation: the ground channel carries the return signal. So the sooner electricity gets flushed from the drivers, the sooner it arrives there. Ground wires have to be at least the same quality as signal wires, if not better. This also applies to studio wiring by the way: as...

Godflesh - "Pure", "Songs of Love and Hate", "Messiah" Final - "2", "Solaris", "The First Millionth of A Second" Jan Garbarek - "In Praise of Dreams", "Song for Everyone" Black Sabbath - "Sabotage", "Heaven & Hell". Carcass - "Heartwork" Ketil Bjornstad - "Floating" Loop - "A Gilded...

One word: Jesu. Even got the "Duchess/Veiled" vinyl EP of theirs (it was sold out in two hours or so).   My (very heavily modded) ATH-M40 work fine off pretty much any amp with that (also Godflesh and pretty much anything else related, like Final and Solaris BC). Now of course they're...

Well, this is a little side effect of a project of mine. The project itself is a GM/GS drumkit sampler, Solar Battery.   As you may guess, a MIDI drumkit requires a lot of testing to make sure it works with standard MIDI files. So here comes an entire album mixed with the new drumkit, as a...

Did anyone say "Monster"? Even if they did, it's worth saying again.

There's a simple mod for these which boosts them to about the detail level of Grado headphones... What you need is Blu-tack and Dynamat and plastic fibrefill (of the kind that's often used for stuffing dolls and small pillows).   Detach the pads with their supporting platforms (just pull them...

  Wa-a-ay back then it was actually the kind of bass you'd get out of small, precise studio monitor speakers mounted correctly (with no obstacles or bass-reinforcing walls). It is, technically, rather realistic (what you get is what you hear in a mix, more or less, they're not really that...

Having both the K-240DF and Monitor and Studio... They're nothing alike. The DF are co-o-old. And this is coming from other monitor headphones (ATH-M40). That is more or less all right really, they can get nice with the right type of music, but, there's that other quirk which is rather putting...

Daedolon from Hexen, in grayscale. That's all.

ATH-M50 prices have gone up (way up) and so the next logical choice was the ATH-M40, which was half the price. ATH-M40 has 40 mm. diaphragms unlike ATH-M50's 50 mm. Otherwise it's a fairly similar model; the accuracy is there too, although they're slightly colder (and faster).   ATH-M40 is...

The K-240 Monitor work fine with a stationary amp, even off a mixer's (or monitor speakers') headphone socket. A CMoy amp doesn't have the same amount of current available, and hence it doesn't even make the headphones cut external noise off as well with the same kind of music. It just can't...

Quote:   Current is measured in volts. Current power is measured in amperes. Watt being a combined power measurement, V*A.   AKG K-240 Monitor (600-ohm) off a CMoy on a ~7.2V rechargeable minibrick battery don't get much of a fill. They sag slightly and don't quite sound that full...

What's needed is two designs really: one a simple battery-driven amp; the other, a headphone amp stage for a USB DAC based on AK4556, with step-up USB power. Both using AD8397. The pocket amp is more of a curio for the sake of it, the amp stage is a bit more serious and will be based on a PCB...

5.5 V. AKD4201 overdrives into stutter off an 8.4V rechargeable battery. Realistic operating current for 600-ohm headphones is roughly 6-12V.

AK4201 max. current is 5V. It goes bonkers with anything more (tried 8.4).