I got the modded Sennheiser pads which I've heard are more similar to the flat pads than the bowls, and it definitely changed the sound. I personally liked it better...it narrowed the soundstage down a bit but really brought out a lot more detail. Your mileage may vary, but I think the SR-80's...

Quote: Originally posted by GreenFloyd Now how would I go about adjusting the volume easily when plugging into the soundcard? There is no volume control on the headphones or anything. hmm.... I guess I might have to resort to just using the headphone plug on the controle module for my...

The "speaker" setting gives you the most neutral, accurate sound you can get out of the soundcard. The "headphone" setting adds some extra processing...whether this is a good or bad thing is up to you. I always leave it set to "speakers" and leave any other DSP-type activities I'd want to...

I recently bought Mahler's Symphony No. 5 with Benjamin Zander and the Philharmonia Orchestra on SACD from Telarc, and it's a fantastic recording for the most part. However, when playing it on my Pioneer DV-563A, the sound cuts off very abruptly at the end, as if there's a defect in the disc and...

The special installation of Foobar includes a masstagger plugin which fits my needs quite well.

Ah, but you underestimate the tremendous payoff and satisfaction from being a part of Audioscrobbler. It's better than upgrading from stock earbuds to an Orpheus.

About half the time, I just set Foobar on random over my entire library of music. The other half I'll switch between listening to particular albums or just choosing a genre and doing random within it. I like well-organized and well-tagged music.

You could always, you know, keep a player open on your computer, mute the volume, and use dummy files to mirror what you're actually listening to.

Aha! With 2051, I have the most songs logged so far; however, my top song has only been played six times. I'm being robbed from representation on the group listings. You people need to diversify.

Hmmm...your musical tastes don't run across too many genres, do they? Well, I'm joined up. I actually stumbled across it from Audioscrobbler's site first and then came here. Wacky.

Yeah, the 2D display of some of those cards was extremely fuzzy; nice and smoothed. Video card anti-aliasing is not analogous to oversampling in audio though, because the video card has a lot of extra information it can use to apply the anti-aliasing. The video card issue is more like an...

My understanding is that the adapter cable does make the 4p sound exactly like the 4s. But it does cost extra money, hence the market for the 4s. I personally never listen to a source without an amp, so the 4s fits my needs best; no extra cable hanging around, and no extra money paid for the...

My advisor in college wrote her thesis on wavelets. From what little I understand of them, they seem like a very good system of approximating wave forms; better than Fourier transforms in certain applications in pure mathematics. However, all that is irrelevant because the above example is...

That is really annoying. It really stands out in a bad way. I guess I'll have to remember *not* to critically listen to this song again.

Just to drive this further off-topic: What's the cause for the radical dip in frequency response seen somewhere around 8 kHz? This seems to be prevalent in almost every headphone measurement I've seen that isn't smoothed.

HeadRoom has measured the HD590: http://www.headphone.com/layout.php?topicID=10

I've wondered lately why I can't find sample recordings of headphone output online. Initially, it sounds like a stupid idea, and maybe it really is, but it seems to have potential to me. Though you couldn't actually tell exactly how any of the headphones would sound, you could tell how they...

To answer in a negative way, genres without a lot of distortion or synthesized instruments. Avoid metal, techno, rap, hip-hop, pop, and other similar genres. Jazz, classical, anything acoustic basically, are where it's at. I think I'm not the only one who came to like those genres better...

Apologies if I assume too much here, but it seems to me as though only the most popular/best anime series and movies make it over to North America. As such, they'd have a larger percentage of good soundtracks, since it's more likely that the ones with bad soundtracks simply wouldn't achieve much...

I'll second (or is it third?) the recommendation of Grado's. With a little headband bending, they don't need to clamp onto my head at all to stay on and sound great. Getting comfy pads to replace the stock bowls helps comfort too, though that's not really directly related to helping someone...

Download lame and use it with the Monkey's Audio program to convert. Real easy to use and mp3 doesn't get better than with Lame. Download link for Lame: http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/f...ame-3.90.3.zip

Leo Kottke - "Learning the Game"

I think you're kind of answering your own question when you say they sound "a bit" better than the $30 Koss phones.

Thanks for the suggestions, 3lusiv3. From my research on the forums here, I've compiled these snap judgments of the headphones currently in the running. Where am I wrong and where have I oversimplified to the point of overlooking features of these headphones? Audio Technica A900 - Deep, loud...

The SR-225 does make a lot of sense; however, if I get them I'll end up with the Ety's and the SR-225's; the SR-80's will be obsolete. If I get the DT770Pro's, then I'll still have a Grado pair, but have the Beyer in addition...but I just don't know. Perhaps Headroom and judicious abuse of...