Hey all,   I recently picked up the Etymotic Kids 5 (my first Ety experience) and found that I really, really enjoy their flat sound for their price. I was surprised to find myself tolerating the comfort factor well, it seems that my ear canals are bigger than usual so the bigger triple...

This is something I've been wondering for a while... please keep in mind that I'm really horrible as far as my knowledge of science goes  so this may be something obvious to the vets here, but y'know, better to ask and learn rather than be afraid to ask and never know.   So we all enjoy...

There are quite a bit of Canadian users here in Head-fi, and with our dollar rarely ever at parity with USD anymore, we need a separate $CAD option for the BST listings IMO... I find that there are often confusions regarding the issue and this option would be really helpful IMO.   Thanks!

  Seemed like a matter of time, but it seems like Samsung is finally taking a shot at the Headphone market.  They are going to be officially announced tomorrow in Korea apparently.   The design is quite a bit Fanny Wang/Dre-esque I'd have to say.  But hopefully the company put some decent...

Hey all,   Trying to order a SRS-2170 system through Pricejapan for the first time. So I'm not familiar with the whole ordering process although from all the feedbacks I do feel confident in the site itself. However, just want to make sure I'm doing everything right here...   So I've...

Just thought I'd start this thread to see how everyone has found comfort of the headphones in your collection of present and past.    I think this format ought to be good in seeing how everyone's variation in head sizes, hairstyles, shapes and the like is first before going into detail, so...

Hey all,   I got my Iphone 5 recently and am planning to go without jailbreaking this time (I jailbroke by previous iphone 4, but did not use the jailbreak apps enough and it seemed to slow the phone down). I used Glovepod app before to convert my volume buttons to track skip buttons which...

Hey all,   I'm currently using my M3 amp that I got built by Ying at YBM Audio and have been thinking of trying out some other opamps to experiment with the sound signature. They currently have gain of 11 and the OPA627's which I find is an excellent match to tame the sibilance and highs of...

Hey all,   I recently added a HP100 to my current WA6SE+DA100 mix and I find it to be a very nice solid state compliment to the WA6SE, and it's synergy with the DA100 is fantastic (not surprisingly, as they're designed to be used together).    This bring to me to the point of this topic...

Hi all,   I have a tube in my WA6SE that has some hum and light high pitch noise and such, and before I go about replacing it want to see if cleaning the tube pins will help the matter. The problem is, I don't know what the best way to do that is.    I've heard of the pencil eraser...

Hey all,   I'm wondering if anyone can help me work out this annoying little glitch I have with the Dacmagic that I got recently for my bedroom rig.   It seems that when using the usb input of the Dacmagic through my Macbook Air/Bootcamp Win 7, I randomly get this pop/tick noise when I...

Hey all,   I just wanted to ask the tube experts here a questions that I've been wondering about for a while now.  Are there/what are consequences of mixing different brand of tubes and non-matched tubes? Is this something that is harmful to do or anything like that? I do see that people...

Hey all,   I just thought I'd post my situation here that isn't exactly a problem or anything, but something that's been bugging me in trying to understand what's going on.   So for the past two years or so I've been using my trust Asus Eee PC 1000HE netbook as my music server, through...

Hey all,   I'm likely going to install bootcamp Windows 7 on my macbook air later on, and plan to use Foobar for it.   A simple question. Does the music files need to be in the W7 partition or will it still be able to access the mac drive for the music files playback? Need to know how...

Hey all,   I've been playing around with several audio players for my new Macbook Air 11.6inch (base version) and have been most satisfied with the Fidelia player thus far. Superb sounding player which definitely sounds better than Foobar on Windows XP. However, there have been couple issues...

Hey all,   For the past 2 years or so I've been happily using my Asus Eee PC 1000HE as my music source and I was very happy with using it along with foobar... but recently it's shown signs of breaking down and I'm currently looking to upgrade to a new netbook/ultraportable laptop (I prefer...

Hey all,   Recently I decided to give an aftermarket HD800 cable a try to see if I can notice any difference in sound from stock.  Out of interest of the vendor, they shall go nameless for now, but I can say that they're quite well known here on Head-fi (and to their credit they've been very...

I present to you, ladies and gentlemen, the fail of the year in soccer, and likely in all of sports this year:     Just for reference, the guy's team ended up losing 1-0 in extra time.

I know a lot of people have problems with sibilance in this forum, and for whatever reason haven't seen this plugin mentioned much here on head-fi... does anyone here use it?  I started looking for solution for sibilance on my main computer rig ever since I got my HD800 and D2000, both of which...

Hi Everyone,   For the sake of not derailing the Woo Audio Appreciation thread that this was originally in, I'd like to move everything over here (if mods can move the relevant posts from that topic that would be great).  Here is my original post:   "... I'm absolutely devastated right...

Hey all,   I've been happy with my HD800 and WA6 (Stock, no PDPS or cap upgrades but with Sophia Princess 274B and RCA 6DE7), but I realize that this is more or less the bare minimum of an amp for what the HD800 actually deserves.  I now have about ~$1000 to play around with which I assume...

Hey all, Just wanted to see where people here on the headphone forum's point of reference for perfectly "balanced" sound signature is. What I am looking to see here is not what you think is "technically" balanced (so none of the flat graphs, best harmonic distortion rating, and stuff like...

Hey all, Over the last 4 months or so I've been steadily upgrading my rig, to my current setup of Pico DAC only -> WA6 -> RS1/HD650/K701. As it stands right now I am indeed pretty satisfied with my rig, but perhaps get the feeling that I could do just a bit better on the DAC component... so I...

Well, I'm sure a lot of us have been watching the winter olympics over the last week or so and being a Head-fi'er, I'm thinking some of you surely kept a good eye on what some of the broadcasters have worn as monitoring headphones. So far, I've seen what I'm almost 100% sure is AKG K271, seen...

Well, it's been a spectacular journey for me on the IEM front, but it looks like I'm going to be forced to quit IEM's for good... The IEM's are what got me into head-fi in the first place and I initially preferred them exclusively as opposed to full-size headphones. However, I've constantly...