I tore down my damaged GL400 driver that sucked a screw while trying to modify the damping of the driver. I just thought you people might like to see what it looks inside the driver. There are only magnets in the back of the driver. First item is actual driver. Second is the magnets which are...

I feel bass in my body that is so realistic to the source material that I have frequently reached down to feel my subwoofer to see if it is somehow playing even though I know its impossible due to my system setup. This is true all the way from 10Hz to 200Hz. I tested the 10Hz frequency using a...

Got my GL600's today and they sound phenominally good except for a kind of nasty peak in the upper midrange-presence area. Otherwise these sound great. In order to address the peak I tried to increase the damping but that didn't work. It made vocals sound thin. I though about removing the paper...

The headphones in question have very different sound starting out the gate. The Gold Planar GL400' are very full sounding but dark due to reduced treble where as the Sennhieser HD25's are very bright but have good strong lower midrange as well but with room be able to increase the midrange...

I bought these headphones from Gold Planar that cost only $79.99. While they seem very cheaply constructed they also appear that they would be durable with possibly the exception of the driver. I only say possibly the driver due to its unknown source & relative cheap plastic construction which...

Note this applies to all sources computer or otherwise. Main type of DAC's 1. The original which is ladder type DAC's These have a resister network of precision resisters for one for each bit level each representing 6db increase in output. early versions were 14-16 bit as available to...

Does anyone here know about Bob Carver Corporation or possibly seen and or heard any of Bob Carver's new products??

I bought a set of Klipsch X6i's to  use in the place of the Klipsch R6m & a few other earphones I have both in ear & full size. Other earphones include Etymotic research ER4P with P to S converter, Audio Technica M50x, Sennhieser HD 25. Samsung stock earbuds that come with Samsung Galaxy note 4...

There are some new Asus Strix cards out that utilize the ESS high performance DAC's. Has anyone tried them yet? One of them utilizes the 9016 chip which in 8 channel configuation has 124 db snr. This same chip when used as a sterep chip has a 132db snr though not utilised that way in these cards.

I purchased a set of JBL LSR305 monitors after comparing them with several others at guitar center. Things that I liked about them in the store was their smooth & extended bass for there size & solid dynamics in the bass especially for their size. They sounded like much bigger speaker than they...

This is largely a repost that I did from another part of headfi forums with only minor additions    I have a friend of mine that who is a very highly regarded designer & manufacturer & we had a very interesting discussion on how driver impedance effects damping. The funny thing is many in the...

 I have a friend of mine that who is a very highly regarded designer & manufacturer & we had a very interesting discussion on how driver impedance effects damping. The funny thing is many in the audiophile community have had it wrong for many years. The common belief is that the higher impedance...

It's a simple truth that many recordings sound harsh on computer based playback systems, especially when copied from or played back from CD's but not from high resolution sources.   The problem arises from the fact that many CD's were mastered with a pre-emphasis. There is a 10db boost @10KHZ...

Hi there everyone.   I have been sent a sample of Creative Labs Sound blaster E3 DAC/headphone amp for review direct from Creative Labs. I'm currently doing lots of listening to it & comparing it to my Sweet modified Sound Blaster ZXR sound card as well as on board sound from my Asus Z97K...

.           The caps in the red box need to be shorted underneath the board. This is for the analog stereo output section of the card   The caps in the green box need to be bypassed underneath with two 12uf metalized film caps each.   The caps in the purple need to be bypassed...

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multimedia/display/20120815173726_Creative_Technology_Unveils_New_Sound_Blaster_Audio_Cards_for_PCs.html   These cards use the new soundcore 3D chipset allong with better DACs than the internal DAC that comes inside the chipset.   Specs give S/N ratio of...

Why when I bypass the power supply caps with better caps does the sound improve dramatically but S/N ratio suffer? Is S/N ratio anything that we really need to worry about or are we putting too much emphasis on this one spec & losing actuall resolution as a result?   In my experiments into...

Trim is now active in RAID 0 as of RST driver version 11.5.0.1149. SSD toolbox & RST GUI are gunnysacked though. I found a cammand line entry that confirms trim is now active though. This is for anyone with an Intel RAID capable chipset for both windows 7 & windows 8 consummer preview. I tried...

I downloaded the Unidrivers from Brainbit & guess what, even with the low latency driver he provides there was no reduction in DPC latency further more it made my computer unresponsive for several minutes after bootup or restarting. Programs would refuse to open for quite some time. Removing &...

Damping Factor, What is it & how does it effects drivers & drive systems?   Damping factor relate to the output impedance of the amplifier, The lower the output impedance the higher the damping factor. The main way of getting a high damping factor is to have an amp with very high negative...

I'm wondering if you admins could start a new catagory just for speakers. There is a lot of questions & posts concerning speakers on this forum & it is still audio related. It would be nice for people searching for info relating to speakers if they didn't have to go through as many threads to...

What do you do when you reach audio nirvana  no longer need to upgrade your sound system? I think I have reached that point where my system is as good as it is going to get & it would cost unimaginable sums of money to only get slightly better sound or just get a slightly different but equal...

Decided to hook up my speakers direct to my Essense STX card today as opposed to going though my Onkyo P304 preamp which is one of the best midfi preamps I've heard. It sounds great though the modded headphone jack to my headphones. Hard to tell the difference in sound from the sound card...

I have been wearing contact lenses for several years & started out with soft hema type hydrogels I belive from boush & lombe. They were ok but grew uncomfortable over the coarse of the day. Then I tried some cotacts from Wessley Jesson & these were horrible within a matter of hours one had stuck...

I purchased a set of Empire Brands Pure Sound PUR600's yesterday at Frys Electronics. They looked interesting to me as they had some really small 6mm diameter drivers in them. While I have been thinking that smaller drivers in earphones may actually help the sound even before I seen these I...