Iron_Dreamer

Yeah, I was there after he had already arrived. The trip he did on me was later, just before we went to dinner.

I just remember him insiting I had to listen to the R10 on that set of junk he brought, how it was way more synergous than my rig at the time. Yeah, perhaps if you like buying the R10's only to make them sound like V900's

I've only heard one once, not knowing what it was at the time (before this whole craze began), and it was hooked up to a DIY tube amp I knew nothing about, but it sounded pretty crappy to me. That system made the R10's sound like under-driven HD650's, UGH! I know at least a few people have had major reliability problems with it, like hum, high DC offset, channel mismatch, etc. Zhaolu = cheap-fi

Almost as funny as driving headphones that cost me $10.84 with an amp that originally sold for over $2100

I couldn't log in either, until I cleared my cookies.

Where's the spare backpack when you need it?

I've noticed the difference before, but it's generally such a minor difference, that it's not worth bothering with for me. Perhaps this would change with better speakers? I guess I'll find out someday.

I love that little amp! You gonna have some proper volume knobs on it next time?

I could always be coerced

I can only echo these sentiments.

I just picked it up this afternoon. Only heard the first song so far, which was pretty good, I especially liked the chorus, but that song alone doesn't really stand up to much on Lateralus (my preferred Tool album).

I have used the Lavry a lot with my W5K, and find it to be a great pairing, in fact I find the improvement of using the Dynahi with the Lavry's DAC output to feed the W5K is pretty minimal.

They probably are the best all arounders, in that they have less glaring flaws than almost any other headphone I can think of. They don't rise to be the best of any particular catergory of sound performance that I can think of, but they do very well across the board. A very easy headphone to recommend, since unless the owner-to-be has much high-end audio experience, they will almost certainly be satisfied. Hmmmm, perhaps this is why Headroom now touts them. Anyway, enjoy 'em, and hopefully Yikes' pair will come in soon (aside: I wish I could hear your recabled SA5K).

Perhaps the server became overstuffed with pretzels?

Indeed, the price is what makes these headphones more than anything. It's not that they do anything particularly well, more that considering the price, they do little if anything that is particularly sub-par.

I figured that I've got 0.83 set up so well to my liking, it wasn't worth the effort of trying the new version, and for what so that scrolling my 10,000 song playlist will use a few less CPU cycles? I don't overclock for nuthin'

Essentially that the dynahi is made to work at a fairly high gain, and lowering it reduces stability and bandwidth. Unity gain is a BAD idea.

Nevermind, got my answer on headwize

I got to thinking, that my source outputs PLENTY of voltage, so I could possibly get by with a headphone amp in unity gain, only suppling additional current. Is it possible to properly operate the dynahi this way? I am aware of how to change the gain, and fortunately dgardner socketed the gain resistor for me. My understanding of gain tells me that this resistor would essentially be bypassed to run unity gain, correct? The unusual nature of that setup is what made me wonder if it were possible. Certainly I could stick in a 100ohm resistor to get to a gain of 2, right? At any rate, is there any point to this? I figured that lower gain would equal less noise, since the voltage is already high enough coming out of the source.

Yep, they're like a PS1 with better bass control, extension, and soundstage. And they smell really gooood

So I guess we'll be hearing a new flavor of Headroom amps coming soon, eh?

Hmm, well FWIW I did find the differences pretty minor during the meet, but I listened to them for about a minute or so each, at the noisiest time of the meet, at Leeav's behest, so it wasn't exactly the best opportunity to delve into them very deeply.

Hmm, well even the best IEM's (and I've heard the UE10 and E500) don't do it for me as well as closed headphones do, as far as sound quality goes. I would only use IEM's where the isolation and/or portability are needed, even if I had the E500's (based on what I heard from them). Now I find Etys sound embarassingly bad, considering their price, and would frankly prefer to listen to HD201's, let alone the A900's. The Etys are the headphones, perhaps more than any other, for which I cannot understand how anybody likes them; between tons of sibilance, absolutely no soundstage, K501-like levels of bass, and no particularly good quality I can think of (other than isolation). I can see how folks like almost any other decent headphone, but the Etys just absolutely puzzle me.

Yeah, I just sit back and cackle, everytime I listen to my rig!

Unfortunately, if I started making statemens questioning the new FOTM, I would probably just be ruthlessly assailed for trying to "protect my investment." So I don't know if that would do any good. I think a non Lavry or DAC1 owner would have to be the one going against the grain.