After a year hiatus, the band is back together again! Texas is coming together on January 23rd, 2016 at the Dropbox office in downtown Austin. There will be ample space for comfortable and quiet gear evaluations. Meet new people and talk shop, renew friendships from the past, hear the gear...

Introduction - I've been looking forward to this day for over a year. It all began with Jason's announcement of a 'statement' amp way back in, what, 2011 or 2012 (?). At that point, I didn't even own HD800s, so I had no plans in motion, but I knew I needed to keep up with this project. Later I...

The date for the next big Austin meet is set! January 18th 2014 at the Norris Conference Center's largest ballroom, the Red Oak. This room is 2.5 times the size of last year's, meaning there will be much more space and much less noise. More tables for vendors, more space between table sections...

Just wanted to get a thread started. Got some dinner and will be getting some rest before returning home tomorrow. Had a great time and was nice to meet new people and see friends again. I'll post some impressions when I get home.

See spoiler for long boring introduction from previous review detailing my listening preferences, gear history, and philosophy on gear. Introduction: Welcome to my second review on Head-fi. My previous was a shootout of 4 mid-fi cans. This time I've moved up to the very tip top of mid-fi...

Been experiencing lots of lag, multiple 'head-fi is down for maintenance' screens, and even on this very page I'm typing on, pages that load incomplete, such as the tab element images behind the Home, Head Gear, Forums, etc at the top, not showing up. This has been happening for the last 2...

I'm pressed for time these days, so this will be brief compared to my previous review (Mid-fi shootout), my apologies. Here we have a pair of solid state balanced amplifiers, the first entry in the headphone space for the speaker amp stalwart Bryston and the latest in a string of hits from...

Introduction: As a nearly 10 year member of Head-fi.org, this is my first review of any kind. As such I feel an introduction is due. I am 30 years of age (as of March 20th), a luthier of violins (restoration, adjustment, repair) for 12 years, apprenticed, violist for 21 years (user name is...

Hey guys, just wanted to say I had a great time. I'll post my impressions/notes when I get home and type them up tomorrow. Great meeting so many new people and seeing those I've met before. The weather put a damper on things a bit, but it went well despite the rain. Next time we'll look for a...

Looking to the future where physical media will nearly disappear I've been thinking about how to make my setup better. I'm currently using Foobar with ASIO bit perfect playback. This sounds great, but the program itself is clunky and ugly. It's hard to find things sometimes, and lacking album...

I hear this phrase used to allow people to hide behind their previous statements when someone calls them out and they don't have the balls to stand their ground. The phrase is also used by people who don't agree with a poster and try to discredit their findings. Audiophiles are people who, one...

Hey all, I decided to make a separate thread for my impressions and notes since it is going to be a very long post. This is a comprehensive audition of 69 different combinations of gear found in the CanJam room at RMAF. There were very few combinations I did not listen to, mostly due to having...

Aside from the UERMs it seems that their entire lineup isn't getting much love these days. As someone shopping for high end customs, I'm wondering if their upper models (again aside from UERM) simply can't compete with recent offerings from JH, Westone, UM, and the like. Or is this more of a...

What are people's opinions on using 1/8 to RCA splitter adapters (when going from a powered 1/8 source to an amplifier RCA input to be amplified again)? I've been avoiding them as it seems an unintended signal for going into an RCA input, like a poor quality preamp. I've always thought sound...

Using computer as source, what software/hardware do I need to get this all to work? Current setup is Foobar in ASIO outputting via USB to DACMagic. I know the DACMagic only supports up to 48khz on USB, but can do up to 96khz through spdif. Currently I have no sound card (other than onboard)...

Hey all, Looking into high end IEMs like JH and the sort, but the only amp I own is designed for high impedance cans and so low impedance high sensitivity IEMs hum quite noticeably. Does anyone have suggestions for a desktop amp for this situation? Price isn't really too much of an issue and I...

How do I turn:   Hi Huddler   into Huddlerspeak?   I've tried every field in the link 'helper', but nothing works. I've searched the forums with every term I can think of, and still nothing. I see people doing it here and there so I know it works, but I have no idea how to do it.

So I am trying to merge a collection of 60 or so CDs with my current iTunes collection.   I have it all on 1 drive so I copied the additions to the drive I have iTunes 'monitoring'. I then open iTunes and expect it to find the new albums. This does not happen. I click to add a folder...

Logged on and found the forum browsing pages only listing about half as many as I'm used to. I looked around in settings to change it back, but couldn't locate it. Anyone got a clue?    

Prototype review here (April 2010): http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/482394/sleek-audio-sa7-and-sa6r-update-slashgear-prototype-preview   IFA review here: http://www.slashgear.com/sleek-audio-sa7-and-sa6-r-ears-on-04100553/   Dual balanced armature   $400

Edit: Corrected date from 9/7/10 to 9/1/10 based on official word from Apple.   http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/25/apple-to-hold-special-event-september-1st-well-be-there-li/   ---   Through a myriad of sources, Engadget has posted the following news clip:  ...

Hey,   I got an urge for some bring down the roof, blow out the kettle drums, LOUD symphonic stuff with chorus. Anyone got a favorite or two? Looking to start a collection.   Here's one of my all time favs, the 'Opening Titles' and 'Looking for Clues' by David Arnold from the Godzilla...

Been using my 8GB flash Zune for a few years, but recently found out the iPod touch has built in Wi-fi, which surprised me and got me thinking about a new device with wi-fi built in.   I'm not entirely anti-Apple, but would prefer a different company if possible, and not loyal to Zune at...

In an effort to completely separate my speaker system from my headphone rig I need to get a DAC for my speaker setup. The DAC I have I need to pull for the headphone rig. My speaker setup actually cost more than my headphone rig, but I don't put as much priority on detail with it as I do my...

As expected from the interest thread, this meet was better attended than 2009, both by people and equipment. I got a chance to hear several legendary items for the first time. First of all, I'd like to thank Alex for hosting the meet and all the regulars that make this meet possible. I was...