I've been using Grado SR-80's for quite some time now, but I'm planning on buying some new 'phones soon and am seriously considering the HD 600's. Does anyone have any advice for me, since I can't listen to them beforehand? I should say that I enjoy the Grado's but am looking to expand my sonic...

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This isn't a tweak, per se... We all understand that heavier pieces of audio equipment tend to isolate better... do you think that stacking audio components on top of each other, or otherwise placing resonably heavy items on top of your equipment helps to reduce vibrations?

Hi anyone/everyone, I have a less-than complete understanding of what makes up a headphone amplifier. What are the components, and what do they do? What are the factors that make one headphone amp, whether stand-alone or built into a portable device or home component, sound better than...

This is for anyone who owns the WM-DD9 Walkman to share information such as common problems and (hopefully) solutions, as well as discuss good tapes and headphones to use with it. To start off, I would like to make the instructions available here: http://www21.brinkster.com/dcfly/WMDD9.PDF...

...and if you feel like it, tell us why.

Let's say I have two identical amplifiers - should I biamp them or use them as mono for the L and R channels? Why? ---

I've always wondered this.

Do you find yourself plugging your headphones into anything that has a jack to check the output?

If I find a site that has some mildly desirable stuff in their inventory, should I post it or will that get me into trouble? I know some people prefer to keep things "hush hush."

Circa 1994, the SL-S470C. Front buttons: Memory/Recall Repeat DSP Skip/Search Play/Pause Stop Side: Hold Switch High Filter Switch: On/Off Mode Switch: Normal/Resume/Random Anti-Shock Memory Switch: On/Off Headphone Out Back: Line Out DC In Green backlit display

Something I've always wondered about is when people say that a certain pair of headphones "color the sound" more than others, how do they really know? Maybe what they think is uncolored is really colored, and what is colored is uncolored. How can a person ever really be sure without some sort of...