Hmmm... I wonder if the Samsung Galaxy Nexus supports it. That's my phone. I have an ODAC arriving today, so I'll give it a shot.

Quote:   I ought to do that. At this point it's kind of pointless, though, since they're out for delivery today.   Incidentally, I live near Charlotte too. Small world! I missed that headphone meetup that happened a few months ago, though :/

Quote:   I apologize. When it said *one day remaining* and it showed the status as being on the westcoast and the destination set to Idaho, and then when I called UPS and they told me the full address was a mixture of my street address and another state, I thought for sure that it was in...

Quote:   I've got a similar issue... I got a tracking number for the UPS shipment, but under the 'destination' area of the tracking page it has been set to deliver to Idaho, while I live in NC. I asked and they contacted UPS and apparently this is something that UPS did as a temporary...

Old thread, but I just stumbled across it.   Look, the fact of the matter is that the output (even outside of high/low frequency ranges) is not bit-identical between lossy and uncompressed audio. Now, will anyone notice those differences? That isn't as simple to answer as "yes" or "no" - it...

Quote:   IE8s, ER4Ps and I'm awaiting a return shipment at the moment with some Heir Audio 8As.

Quote:   Those look great! The glow-in-the-dark logo sounds interesting. Once you get them I'd love to see a picture of them in a dimly-lit room with flash turned off.

Quote:   That's correct. I ordered the magnus cable and the stock cable since I wanted to be able to compare them (and it also gives me a spare cable, just in case), and I had to pay a little extra, so the cost of the stock cable is discounted from the magnus cable normally. Everyone's...

Quote:   Wow. Honestly, I'd be shocked if there's SUCH an improvement that I'd call my IE8s "mud", but I certainly won't be complaining if I do!   Yes, I'll be sure to post with my impressions of the magnus cable as opposed to a stock one. I'm changing around so much with my listening...

I'll probably attend. I mostly have IEMs, but I'll bring my AKG k701s along with an O2 amp and ODAC from JDS Labs.   Edit: Sorry, but I'm not going to be able to make it.

It's been some time since head-fi sucked me back into its money-burning clutches, but now that I'm back for a while I thought I'd follow up to my post about the IE8s.   The cleaning tool that comes with the IE8 has a side that can be used to adjust the bass dial. It will almost fit between...

I've got a pair of 8As on order - they just received my molds the other day. I'll be posting my impressions once they arrive. I'm also trying to add a magnus cable, a magnus intra-connect cable for my amp and dac which are on order and a stock IEM cable onto the order, so I'll try to give some...

  Quote:   I think you're referring to ear-head.com   I just bought an AKG k701 there the other day. Frank Diaz was very, very helpful. He's got a nice listening room and he patiently let me try several pairs of headphones I was interested in (sennheiser 600s, grados, and the AKG)...

I'm having this problem too. The left side often drops out...almost half the times I put them in, and I'm as gentle as I possibly can be with them.   I've tried reseating the cables, cleaning the connectors, etc... nothing helps. I can "fix" it temporarily by reaching up and using my...

Quote: I just uninstall the Asus Xonar entry from add/remove programs, rebooted, pulled up device manager and confirmed that it hadn't found the old driver and then installed the new one.   Definitely try this first! Just removing a device in device manager doesn't delete windows'...

I just installed the new beta drivers also. I immediately brought up foobar, set it to ASIO output and queued up some flac.   I have to say, I never thought a driver revision would make much of a difference, but I agree with most of the other posters about this - it's a tremendous...

Quote: Originally Posted by steviebee The sheer & blissful state of being that is Head Fi Novelty Corp, Inc. All part of the fun. haha, exactly. I think everyone here has an obsession with trying anything - it's the tinkering mentality. Look at some of those crazy tip...

Quote: Originally Posted by Kclone or if you want to spend some money, get the Minibox-E+ amp. I'm already using these out of a xonar essence (which has a good headphone amp built in) most of the time. I guess it's weird that I use IEMs at home, but I like the isolation they...

Quote: Originally Posted by wuwhere Interesting. Would ear muffs work too? Hmmm, I don't see why not. The point is just to compress your ears against your head. Actually, ear muffs would probably be more comfortable, and there wouldn't be a dangling chord. I'll have to try that...

Hey all, This certainly may very well just be an oddity solely of my own ear canal, but on a whim, after years of using my ER4P, I put a cheap $5 pair of foam-padded headphones that came with something over my ears (positioned a little to the back, to press my ears down a bit) while I had my...

Quote: Originally Posted by jinx20001 i see what you mean about overall sound signal but the ety's still peak higher in distortion throughout the range ...and the baseline signal of the Ety's has less distortion than the Shures. Conveniently omitted. The problem with low end...

Quote: Originally Posted by kwkarth In that application, (IEM) a single driver is all that is required. You're not moving enough "air" to require multiple drivers and adding multiple drivers and crossovers is needless complication, expense, and marketing breakthrough. Multiple drivers...

When I say the Shures have less detail in mids and highs, I mean...less detail. I do not mean that it's warm, and I don't like it being warm. Nor do I mean that it's not emphasized. I actually did an ABX-type soundtest, picking apart certain ranges of lossless samples from various songs...

e500s: big bass and warmth TF (haven't tried them personally): supposedly more neutral...more detailed. Less bass emphasis, not as warm. A line from warmth/bass to clarity/detail is probably: e500 <--> TF <--> Etymotics The difference is significant, though. The e500s have ***WAAYY***...

People.... look at the graph again. The Ety's have the *lowest* distortion on that graph! See the first huge spike? Notice the tinge of red that's overlayed by the yellow at points? That's the Triple Fi line, which was rendered before the Ety's yellow line - they're both there though. And...