After year and year of rumors, it is now confirmed.   Official Press Release:       Quote:   I am somewhat disappointed that there's no ring driver, the price is unknown as of now. It seems though, like the HD 800, that they paid a great deal of attention to resonances and...

I just came across two interesting articles via by John Siau, the designer at Benchmark Audio   - Do Specifications Lie? Do Our Ears Lie? Where does the Truth Lie? An Examination of Headphone Amplifier Performance Specifications Interesting article, aims at showing how measurements can be...

HP-A8 32-bit DAC Headphone Amplifier 
Model HP-A8 is a Fostex’s flagship DAC Headphone Amplifier offering finely built analog and digital circuitry designs as well as epoch-making DSD file reproduction function.     •High quality 32-bit DAC (AK4399) and all discrete analog circuitry...

I wondered how head-fiers would fare in the following test: http://testyourvocab.com/   Quote:   And before anyone rambles on the non representativeness of a non random population, the people who designed the test are perfectly aware of this.

Some useless verbiage: The HRT HeadStreamer is the latest product in the growing line of single mission high performance USB DAC from HRT. The new HeadStreamer is the ideal product for those who listens to music through a computer via headphones and would like to significantly improve the...

So, a few things that could be improved for the Head-Fi interface: - I've noticed that head-fi post take up a lot of vertical space, I have a screen with a 1200 pixel vertical resolution and sometimes I only have 3 posts with one liners filling up my screen. The main culprits? The huge space...

So you just bought the LCD-2 with the wooden box for its general classiness an you don't feel spending another $75 for the travel case? :) The travel case is a SKB 3I-0907-6B-E Small Mil-Std Waterproof Case 6" Deep. It's available on bhphotovideo.com:this is the empty case. There's another...

Here's the type of thing I am talking about: An acquaintance of mine relates the same experience with the same vendor with double my budget :p Since then, I've received several variants of the same speech with very different price points, it seems that the price point where gear can make...

Get a haircut!!! :D Seriously, each end every time I start thinking about how my setup could be improved by getting new gear (which happens every month or so (maybe every 2 months)0, I get a haircut and suddenly everything sounds better, no more veil, no more smearing, everything is suddenly...

All information: http://www.totaldac.com   Semi DIY DAC, available fully built at EUR 3850   Discrete components DAC: R2R DAC with 0.01% Vishay foil resistors Clock and anti-jitter FIFO: it uses a buffer memory (FIFO) to store about 10ms of audio data at the digital source rhythm and...

http://www.stereophile.com/content/when-musics-over   Quote:  

Ok, McIntosh gear is usually hellishly expensive but it measures very well and is built like a brick. However, how could this happen?     For about the same price of a built B22, $2000, you can buy a clock...

Since I don't believe this has been done yet, let's get a look at the uDac-2 measurements with RMAA. http://audio.rightmark.org/products/rmaa.shtml First, a little background, I purchased a uDac 2 on 21/01/11 on Amazon and received it on 27/01/11 in Beijing, congrats on the fast delivery...

As we all know the visual aspect of an item impacts on our mind and plays a role in he placebo effect. While some of us may be able to be more objective than others, it nevertheless make little doubt for me that the great majority of us are not immune to a well designed appearance.   Of...

Actually this poll has 2 sub questions, so please tick two answers:   The first question is about global preference, considering the entirety* of their work , who do you feel has brought the most to your listening pleasure? then, if you had to select your preferred album for each band, To...

From http://www.gracedesign.com/products/m903/m903.htm   It seems like a m902 update with better USB support, otherwise the specs are very close to the m902. Price point: 1700/1800 $     Balanced and unbalanced analog inputs 24bit/192kHz digital stereo inputs- AES3, S/PDIF...

Personally, I used to shoot JPEG, and switched to Raw later. The poll mostly applies to owners of cameras with a reasonable sensor size (equal to or bigger than the 4/3 sensor in Olympus DSLRs, I guess)   To me, the analogy with audio would be:   Raw: mixed nut unmastered recording...

News from Headfonia with very little precision.     Quote:   I hope it's a real one, anyway the headphones look really better than the old Omega 2 IMHO.

Full news here: http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/09/03/sony-presents-two-great-and-expensive-headphones/       Sony in Japan introduced [JP] two high-end headphones today, the MDR-Z1000 and the MDR-EX1000 (an in-ear model). And both models boast some pretty good specs. The MDR-Z1000...

I just came across Musicbee and was absolutely stunned, I immediately thought that it was what Songbirg tried to be but failed at being. So why it is good, just check the features.   Unbuggy library management?               Check Even with 10000+ files?                            Check...

It could be for different reasons, distrust in the reviewer, a different interpretation of a "quality"...   eg. the DAC is showing its true capabilities when fed by sp/dif, this could translate into it's a really good dac or it's a dac that doesn't do its job since jitter rejection is awful...

I've been on Head-Fi for quite a long time, though not nearly as active as some members or for nearly as long as the Wise people (since there are a women here, even if they are fewer in number) and it occurred to me that matching measures to impressions has been rarely done, at least on a large...

Please correct me if I'm wrong:   Functionally, a LOD is equivalent to a pair on interconnects? In practice, the RAC connector is replaced by an iPod connector on one side and a minijack on the other. Even if cables made a difference, here we have TWO inches.   So am I right or do...

It's called Audio DiffMaker, available at http://www.libinst.com/Audio DiffMaker.htm   Basically, it allows you to compare 2 audio files easily, time alignment, volume matching... is done automatically. The process is called nulling, determining the difference between two audio signals via...

Do you remember an article which reported that during informal blind listening trial, the younger generations tended to prefer mp3s over lossless? There appear the be some new data about it.   http://seanolive.blogspot.com/2010/06/some-new-evidence-that-generation-y.html   *Sean Olive...