Vinyl sucks. My dream would be to be able to buy prerecorded 1/4" analog tapes at 15ips of my favorite records. However duplication would cost a lot and tape is not cheap. Do you think there's enough audiophile ready to spend $100 to $200 or more for one album on tape? And there's not...

Quote: Originally Posted by mr. nice all the above mentioned were around making better converters (more expensive) when the Benchmarks were making there DAC1... I was just tryin to figure out why the DAC1s...I though it was somethin you were all on to... As you know there's a big...

Quote: Originally Posted by jjcha Nope. You should know that ads for items that were purchased with the intent of resale is against the rules here. Actually, this very thread technically violates the terms of use, as it is a thread created by an individual selling an item acquired...

Quote: Originally Posted by jjcha Actually, yes. There is a long tradition of sharing the love when one stumbles upon a good find. Your ad is in violation of the rules here. I would remove it unless you want to be considered for member of the trade status. Best regards, -Jason...

Those tiny wires are from the voice coil, of course you can't change them and they are very short. The idea behind good cabling is to bring the most unaltered audio signal to the voice coil(s). The longer the cable the better chance some small degradations will happen like picking up some noise...

Congrats and welcome to the club! They are, indeed, awesome... Advise? - They like heavy stands. Warning? - They are super transparent, if something sounds wrong check upstream gears. - Be careful with your wallet, they love killer amps and sources.

The Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday [DSD Remaster]

Hey man, next time you bump into an audio site try to be a little less arrogant especially when you don't know what you're talking about. You obviously don't know what high quality audio is. Do you blame also Porsche owners because they spent lot of money into cars while they could have...

Quote: Originally Posted by cosmopragma In the speaker world it's common knowledge that you should invest the majority of your budget into the transducers, and IME the same holds true for headphones. It's your room size which should dictate how much you can spend on transducers...

I don't listen to hard rock so i don't know if there's good hard rock French stuff, but maybe you can check some Alain Bashung CDs from the end 80s to 90s. In my opinion he has always been the only real French rocker. Most of the stuff produced here fall in the "variété" genre. (Very popular music)

Quote: Originally Posted by markl The gold is a marketing gimmick, it has nothing to do with the quality. It's more than that, it's part of the "no compromise" package these discs try to offer. The very ductile nature of gold allow a perfect covering of pits and lands. it's...

There should be no reason to spend thousands for some good dynamic headphones. This is not magic, basically this is "just" two tiny voice coils and membranes. You can have very good speakers for a few thousands that will blow any headphone and which cost more to design and build. Electrostat...

The problem is: How many times you can tell HD650 is the best headphone in the world? It's terrible to sound like a broken record years after years. And having some fight or heated discussions can be fun and entertaining, but it's really time consuming in fact, time that is better spent...

Quote: Originally Posted by Dr.Love I've heard of Harbeth, but have not heard Harbeth speakers. How do they sound to you? I don't know yet, my M30s are still packed. I'm currently renovating my listening room, 2 more weeks and i should be done. Having owned and loved Rogers...

You could check some Harbeth speakers.

markl, for the Edition 9 it seems Ultrasone have review sample(s). Maybe you can ask for a loan?

Quote: Originally Posted by Sovkiller Try it balanced, and most of those problems will be corrected, the Senns drivers are really slow, and the diapragms are really thick, they use indeed an old technology using thick mylar drivers, similar to the one used in the HD600 which is quite...

Check the good British monitors like from Harbeth, Acoustic Energy or some used Rogers. It's basically the same tonal accurate, neutral but slightly dark sound like HD650.

- Of course the Sennheiser veil. (Look what happens when newbies are allowed to talk! I love the internet) - You need one headphone for every different kind of music. (The lame "Grado for rock, Sennheiser for classical") - Balanced is the only way to go baby! (Maybe low power single ended...

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My 0.02 €. HD650 + 300B is what you should aim for if you want the very best headphone sound available today.

Both. With a nice pre/headamp you can have both perfectly integrated.

You guys crack me up...seriously. You need to understand that in the audio hobby, after a certain point, the price has nothing to do with performance but more with the bling-bling factor of the gear. Thinking that a $1,000+ headphone will magically provide you a "ultra high-end" sound simply...

Quote: Originally Posted by gotchaforce Can someone explain to me how grover's cable can beat a cable with way more research behind it? It all depends in which context the cable is used. Cardas GR is made to be used with the very best audio gears money can buy. And in fact it is...