I've been researching portable amps for these new DT 1350 cans (80 ohms) for weeks now.  Driving them directly from my iPod Classic with lossless files just isn't cutting it fidelity-wise.  My budget is $500 max.   Was all set to buy a RSA P-51 Mustang, but when I contacted Ray he suggested...

I travel a lot for work and have used Shure e5C in-ear monitors for years with my iPod loaded with lossless files.  Used Shure E3s before that.   Am thinking I'd like to switch to an on-ear, rugged, portable HP.  Have been reading a lot about the Beyer DT 1350s and Senn HD-251 II.  Are there...

Are these AKG K240 sextetts? From the descriptions I've read, I think they are.      

Picked these up recently at a charity auction.  They look cool, but are heavy and sound just OK compared to my other modern HPs.      

Just received my HRT iStreamer today. Read more about it here. This thing is the bee's knees. For $200 it extracts a digital signal from the line out plug on the bottom of your iPod Classic, iPad, or iTouch via the supplied cable and feeds it to the iStreamer, which is a DAC. Also charges you...

Picked this up locally from a buddy this weekend.  The suitcase contains a reel to reel player and two mono-block tube amps.  The tube compliment is two 12AD7, one 6X4, one 6BQ5 and one 6AR5 in each amp.  The amps also have inputs for line level, turntable and microphone.  Has a preamp out too...

Picked these up from a fellow just a couple of miles down the road a week or so ago. When I got home, plugged into the speaker outputs of a 5 watt tube amp that was handy. They sounded terrible......like playing through a tin can. Just about wrote them off as a bad buy (didn't pay much for them...

A fellow down the street from me has a pair of these for sale.  They were made back in the early 1970s.  Anybody have any experience with these?  Anything I should look or listen for when I go see them tomorrow?  

Looking for a high end universal player that plays SACD, DVD-A and CD. Am considering a new OPPO BDP-83, either standard or SE model. For a budget of $500-900, are there better options on the used market? Denon DVD-5900 maybe?

I really like the sound signature of the Beyer DT770 600 ohm cans.  Just wondering, is there another closed-back HP in the sub-$250 price range that has better bass extension below 50 Hz?     The 770s roll off pretty fast in the <50 Hz frequency range.  Was listening to a song from the OSI -...

Am currently running these high impedance phones off a Ming Da tube amp.  Would like to try a solid state amp just to contrast and compare the sound signatures.  Would a Matrix M-stage be a good match?  Any other SS amp recommendations.  Budget is <$500.     Skylab.......you out there????

I have one of these units that was modded by AudioSmile to improve the DAC capabilities.  Don't know if these mods affect the HP output, but I've been using it as a HP amp with Beyerdynamic DT770/600s and DT880/600s and it sounds pretty decent.  Anyone else have experience with the SRC2496 as a...

Thread subscriptions don't work right.   Forums cannot be sorted on the fly.   Just generally not very user friendly.   What drove this software change?

More than a year ago my AudioSmile modded Behringer SRC2496 became a boat anchor, or so I thought. When using the analog outs, the DAC starts cycling rapidly through the 16/20/24 bit word length options and makes the music unlistenable. Fast forward to today.....have been debating buying a...

Recently purchased a Ming Da MC 84 C07 tube amp and set of closed back Beyerdynamic DT-700/600 ohm headphones. Ended up setting the system up in the man cave, so the reason for closed back cans has evaporated (i.e., wife watching TV upstairs where I was originally going to use the system)...

Hello All, I've researched this forum and others and am thinking about these three makes/models: Ultrasone HFI-780 for ~$250 Shure SRH840 for ~$175 Audio Technica*ATHM50 for ~$100 I bought a pair of Audio Technica ATH-AD700 last year, but have two issues with them. They don't fit...

Hello Head-Fiers, I bought the captioned headphones back in the early 1990s I think. They were highly rated at the time by some "expert". How does these headphones stack up against currently available higher end headphones? Thanks, BmWr75