I've always been lead to believe that you need a super amp to power headphones that are 300 ohms and above. Namely the hd600/650, akg 701, beyer dt880, etc. ...but my friends recently stopped by to chill and wanted to use my headphones(hd650). I said sure...but they wanted to plug them into an...

I didn't want to derail the er-4p thread so I feel like I should create a new thread for these tiny little beasts.  ok so I've been posting about these a little bit but I really can't stress enough how good these sound. The only problem is that they do have quite significant bass dropoff...

Is the passive noise isolation enough to protect against the decibel spikes while firing a handgun/rifle? I was thinking of maybe just getting the ek5 which are extremely cheap(not to mention accurate sounding) and maybe that would work so I don't have to borrow those giant earmuffs at the...

I'm still at a loss for words trying to understand how cables of all things would make a difference in sound for a headphone. The impedance of a cable is usually negligible right? Yet there's tons of people who say that a cable upgrade for the hd650 is imperative. Or at least recommended. It...

EDIT- title got cut off "in terms of sound quality" Please, by all means correct me if I'm wrong but...I thought that the worst that could happen with a low quality/extremely thin cable is a bottlenecking of incoming signal.Doesn't copper wire have too little resistance to add any impedance...

I know it's not really treble response, but does a brighter headphone usually help with detail retrieval? How would you effectively measure such a thing without just a listening test?

Does anyone know of a program that effects the equalization for all sound that's transmitted through my amp/DAC? Windows media player has an EQ but it doesn't effect any audio for games or youtube, soundcloud, etc.  Not sure if it exists, not sure it CAN exist, but if it does. That would be...

I recently had a bit of a scare where the right channel of my headphone made this horrible noise for a brief second while playing music on my magni/modi. It wasn't super loud and certainly wouldn't hurt anyone's hearing. But I don't know if it damaged my headphones or amp. I was thinking maybe...

I don't see many threads around here talking by the awesome(IMO) products offered by this company. I also wanted to start this thread to gain some more information on their new stuff, and maybe do some comparisons with other headphones in budgetland and midfi ville. Anyways: my experience...

I really can't stop myself from trying to achieve better sound at this point. But I still don't want to run into the point of diminishing returns. First it was the m50-really started me down the track of hifi Next the fiiO e7-having a dedicated amp/DAC really helped bring the music to the next...

Ok. So basically, I'm about to build another PC and I think I have all the specs I want down except I have no clue what the best price-to-sound ratio soundcard would be. I'm stuck between getting the asus xonar essence, and the creative soundblaster z(x). I hear the asus has better sound...