I have a pair of Beyerdynamic DT990-Pro 250ohm headphones that I got back in 2008 or so. I enjoyed them for those 15+ years, but they are showing their age and have developed some glitchy cable issues in addition to a deteriorating headband, earpads, etc; so I decided to just get a new pair. I...

I noticed on Amazon that they had the Fosi P2 marked all the way down to about $40 or so. Since it is compatible with EF95/6J1/6AK5 tubes, of which I have plenty, I thought that it would make an interesting experiment to see what this super cheap tube amp could do. I didn't see any dedicated...

I currently have a Little-Dot I+ which is what I use for my low-impedance headphones. I have a separate OTL tube amp for my high-impedance headphones. I've had my Little-Dot I+ for a while at this point, and I was considering potentially replacing it with a Schiit Vali 2++. Has anyone here...

Back in 2006 I got a Little-Dot II+, which is a predecessor to the current Little-Dot MKII. I liked it quite a bit. It was a DHT design using 4P1S/4P1L pentodes running as Triodes for power tubes and EF92 tubes as driver tubes. A year or two later they came out with an updated model, the...

I have a pair of Sony XB700 headphones from about 12-13 years ago that I really enjoy. They are capable of some very amazing low-end bass that I don't really get from my other headphones. I'd just buy another pair, but they are long since discontinued. The pair I have is showing it's age, and...

I've had my DT990-Pro 250ohm headphones for 10+ years and in that time I've replaced the pads 2-3 times. They are now flat as a pancake again and so I want to replace the pads again. Unfortunately the price seems to have gone up quite a bit. I paid ~$30 for the pads last time I bought them...

Here I have my trusty old X-Fi Titanium HD. I've owned it for about a decade now. It has been a great card for me that entire time. For a long time, I used it in my main computer. A couple of years ago I swapped from using the X-Fi Titanium HD in my main computer to using a regular X-Fi...

I have been having this one extremely annoying issue with drivers for my soundcard and Windows 10.   I have an X-Fi Titanium HD soundcard, which has a fantastic DAC onboard, and that is why I continue to use it.  Creative was on top of their driver support, and released a Windows 10 driver for...

I like my DT990 Pro 250ohm headphones a lot.  I've had them long enough that I'm on my 3rd set of velour pads now.  I power them using my Yamaha C-80 Preamp (~1984) and it works great.   I've built up my stereo over the years (mostly vintage components) to the point where it sounds quite good...

I'm currently using an X-Fi Titanium HD.   I like it, but I'd also like something cheap that lets me get back into tube swapping.  I was looking at the Aune T1, and that is about the price range I'm looking at, but I was disappointed that USB is the only input for the DAC.  Ideally, I'd like to...

I have a pair of DT990-Pro 250ohm headphones.  I love them but it feels like I'm running them right on the edge of their capabilities.  I often have to turn the volume down to avoid over-excursion of the headphone drivers.  I use a Yamaha C-80 Stereo Preamp from 1984 as a headphone amp and it...

I really don't understand why Beyerdynamic's Pro models are so much cheaper   Consider DT990-Pro 250ohm vs DT990 250ohm (consumer model)   DT990-Pro 250ohm can be found for ~$160 whereas the consumer model goes for more like $300.  That's not a tiny difference, that's almost twice the...

I just picked up a Yamaha C-4 Preamp and plan to make extensive use of it's headphone amplifier. This is a Preamp, not a receiver, so it has no speaker outputs to piggy-back a cheap headphone output off of, it has an actual headphone amp inside. I've used a Yamaha C-80 preamp previously with...

I have these two Beyer headphones and they give me vastly different listening experiences. I always thought the DT770-Pro/80's were supposed to be the bass monsters of the series, but they simply are not able to perform at the level of the DT990 in my testing. The DT770s seem to have more...

I want to know what the difference is between these two types of pads. A bit of backstory from me: I own both a DT770/Pro-80 and a DT990/Pro-250. I had the DT770 for a few years before I got the DT990. When I first got the DT990 I was not impressed. I didn't feel the bass was as good as my...

I've had an EMU 0404 since 2005 or so.  There are two PCB models for this card, 8850, and 8852.  I have 8852.  This card also used two different yet similar DACs, the AKM4395, and AKM4396.  Mine has the AKM4395.   I currently have the 0404 installed in my file server.  I use an X-Fi Titanium...

I currently use 4P1L tubes in my Little-Dot II+, having replaced the stock Chinese 4P1S tubes.  As I understand it, the 4P1L tube was produced in the Soviet Union between the late 50's and early 80's.   Does anyone here have enough experience with this tube to know if there will likely be...

For over 4 years I used the DT770-Pro/80 as my main headphone and I loved them. I thought their bass was amazing and I personally recommended them to several friends. I couldn't have been happier. Then along came the XB700. I only bought it because it was cheap and as something to play with...

I am finding that using the Search function on the forums has become an incredibly frustrating experience.   When I attempt to Sort the results via "recency" it still has results from 5+ years ago on the first page ahead of results from 2012.   Usually when I come onto the forums I like...

I’m having some serious issues with the default text input window for making posts.   I am using the latest version of Firefox (3.6.13)   My big issues are:   1. I can’t copy and paste.  It says something about my browser security settings not allowing it but this is the only forum...

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I'm looking for something that would be a good upgrade over my existing EMU 0404 PCI which I've used since 2005. I'm actually using an X-Fi titanium in my main computer, and have the EMU 0404 in my server. The digital output from my X-Fi goes into the digital input of the 0404, and then from...

  I have a Little-Dot II+ that I bought in 2006 and a Little-Dot II++ that I got about a year after that.   The Little-Dot II+ uses EF92 Driver tubes and 4P1S (or 4P1L) Power tubes.  The power tubes are directly-heated pentodes operating as triodes.  The amp uses an iron core transformer...

Earlier this month I bought a pair of "MDR-V6" headphones from eBay. Price was about $40 shipped to my door which was obviously too good to be true. That, on top of the seller already having a bunch of negative feedbacks for selling counterfeit headphones was a pretty clear sign. I decided to...

I bought my Little-Dot II+ in the summer of 2006. It's worked great since then for the most part, but now I'm running into a few possible issues. The first, and I'd guess the biggest issue is that a solder connection at the bottom of the tube socket keeps breaking. It is where the metal that...