I have recently seen an Apogee Mini-Dac, released around the year 2000 for ~1000$, sold for around 200$. I'm not sure how to gauge whether or not that price is low or high by modern standards. Of course, back in early 00-s a DAC that supports 192kHz streaming over USB was a huge deal. These...

EQ compensation Hello all, I wanted to know whose measurements most people use for frequency response PS: I stumbled upon this http://en.goldenears.net/GR_Headphones

I saw this headphone and the specs: AK T5P generation 2, it's frequency range is from 5 Hz to 50 KHz. Higher frequenties should have some influence in our brain, as our sub conscious brain processes a lot more than we hear / see, etc. Player specs only write down what frequency files (FLAC...

While I am listing something on YouTube, I find down something on this video, that is about fan noise: All my headphones connect to iFi Pro iCan amplifier. My HiFiMan HE1000 (balanced output) makes shaking sound so bad at max volume. Like I feel my HE1000 drivers will be broken, I have to...

The frequency response (by innerfidelity, Golden Ears, Rtings) curve has severe dip at about 4kHz and 7kHz. Did you feel it with your ears too? http://goldenears.net/board/GR_Headphones/5713157 http://www.rtings.com/headphones/reviews/sennheiser/momentum-2-0?uxtv=a5bc...