Headphones

I'm not sure whether this has been mentioned here, but it appears that HiFiMAN is launching some new models. Have you guys seen it? Major updates, apparently. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13645_3-57616687-47/hifimans-advanced-headphone-tech-at-ces-2014-improves-sound-quality/ Just when I thought I had finally assembled my definitive setup...

Gotta give it to him, still rocking the business at 90. http://joegradosig.com/index.html

They use stax's terminus, so don't worry, we can build the amps ourselves!

Oh I cant wait! Take a D5000, give it to Markl and once he works his magic you will receive a headphone that can possibly surpass the legendary Sony R10. Maybe we can do a group buy. I wonder if he will eventually do mods on the Ultrasones? markl Mods Due to popular demand, I am now offering to perform the modifications I developed for the D5000 (and D2000) on your Denons. I liked the results of this modification so much, I sold my Sony R10! Developed over the course of modifying 8 separate Denons, the specific details of the mod are contained elsewhere on the forum. Based on the positive results from folks who have tried the modification on their…

Has anyone heard/bought the final version? Was it worth the wait? How does it fare against the competition?

Just got mine from Smegs. Spent about an hour getting on the O2 mk2 pads. We're in business. The craftsmanship is fantastic; this is a beautiful pair of headphones. Oh, and they sound kickass, too. EDIT: the wood is African Blackwood.

Link Modeled after the T1... $1295 MSRP... Closed... Designed to be driven "straight"... Hmmm...I'm a gonna need to hear these...(strokes chin)...

In many threads concerning electrostats I come cross opinions that "you must get used to the electrostatic sound" and suchlike... Now I'm in a process of exploring my new Omegas. So can anyone explain what are the peculiarities that we must get used to?

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Since the other HF-2 thread has become quite a mess, figured it'd be a good idea to start a new one for people to post their impressions in.

I am getting ready to come home in about a month and have to start mailing my gear home. I figure rather than have it sit around, it might was well get some use. I have already offered up the Buffalo and currently have: SWT61->Augsburger->Deepak. The Buffalo will be set up for SPDIF use only. I was hoping the guys at TP would have had the MUX ready by now but no such luck. The Buffalo is in a beat up Par-Metal case so it isn't much of a looker but should give an idea of the sound. The other item for loan is the HE 1.2B. This obviously would require a pro-bias amp or transformer set up with a Stax pro-bias jack. I say each person could try the items fo…

http://en-au.sennheiser.com/orpheus The cat is out of the bag. What do you guys think of the potential of the Senn HE-1060/HEV1060 combo beside breaking the bank? Thanks.

I got home from work to find a box from the UK on my desk. Yippie! I hooked up the pig tail to my amps speaker taps, and plugged the 4 pin socket of the K1000 into that. Turned on my Beta22 and no sound. Hmmm let's see now, the amp seems to be working fine, the speaker adapter is hooked up right, what's missing? Oh yeah, maybe it's that thing that spins CDs that I just shipped out yesterday! My phono stage still has hum issues with my SUT, and the temporary phono stage I was using went tits up. So maybe selling my CD transport would have been better delayed a week or so. Well the new CDP is due to arrive Saturday. It's gonna be an eternity.

Ok the original HD800 thread is absurdly long time to break out impressions into this thread.

I've had the O2's since Tuesday bought was unable to use them till today when my KGSS showed up

Anybody likes to make a recommendation what to try next? I am mostly listening to metal, guitar oriented rock, singer/songwriter and occasional country. I really need good mids, both for the guitars (enough punch) and for voices (actually hear what's going on). Here's my history of headphones: Current favorites: DT-770, but a little too boomy, in particular at high volumes. Like the closed sit and general quality. Not enough punch in the area where distorted guitars sit. Runner up: Proline 650, but too microphonic, not really comfortable, too much noise to the outside and a little thin sounding. Sennheiser HD-250 (not II): best with distorted guitars among what I …

Just in the past week, there got to be more than seven or eight thread devoted to the Ed.9 and how special they are. When I had Mulveling's Ed. 9 (he now sold them) for three week they sounded very good over all for rocks but I found them unnatural due to their recessed midrange and the whole "S-Logic" presentation for other genres. If you are a rock and heavy metals fan, they are quite good, but for everything else they are not even as good as the Senn HD-650 w/ my Zu cable. I found the Ed.9's to be way over emphasis on bass and lack refinement in many areas in comparison to the L3000 and W2002 that I have on hand. What's your take on them? I'm quite curious. My impressi…

Anybody see this thread over at HF http://www.head-fi.org/t/584408/breaking-news-chinese-company-acquires-stax Is there any truth to this? I hope not...

Pick these up from a fine gent from head-fi. I had a similar set previously that I had to sell to raise some emergency funds. I felt guilty as soon as I did, and luckily was able to find another set. This pair is different, one being the black grado wooden box, and the slightly gold lettering on the L and R (the picture does a bad job of showing it). The cups are absolutely beautiful, and the font is really classy looking. Sound, for some reason these babies sound not only tolerable, but really nice with bowls. I could never listen to the bowls with RS-1's even my last vintage set, but these with bowls they still have great bass with nice smooth highs, and absolutely no h…

Guys, Anyone wants to give this a try? IMO, you can mod a headphone to have a tighter bass and a more natural high but you can't improve the midrange,details, and soundstaging. What do you think? Can the modification be as good as claimed? MarkL has an interesting check on his pair of R10.

Confirmed - Grado PS1000 coming Apparently, there's going to be a new PS1000. MSRP is $1695. The SR60 is now the SR60i The SR80 is now the SR80i The SR125 is now the SR125i The SR225 is now the SR225i The SR325i is now the SR325is The RS2 is now the RS2i The RS1 is now the RS1i The GS1000 is now the GS1000i They're also offering the wooden boxes; $75 + shipping. Grado's site

It's the Dodge SRT Viper of high-end headphones.

No doubt there will be plenty of announcements at CES 2012 of interest to us, so I thought I'd start a thread to keep track of the headphones announced at the show . Who knows, maybe we can encourage Tyll, or other visitors to get a closer look for us. I'll start off with something interesting (thanks to google translate) Sennheiser introduces the high-end HD 700 Headphones google webcache of (pulled) B&H had it priced @ $999.95

I see these over in the other place. $500 Stat, based on pro bias. New offering from India. It said in the thread Spritzer will be getting a set. True, lies, or Trumpism?