According to this post, Sennheiser are planning to ship the HD 800S with two cables: a balanced 4 pin XLR as well as a single ended 1/4" TRS cable.   What do you think?

A few days ago I jumped onto a Hi-Res content provider to see what was new, and noticed a ghost from the past in 24/48 format.  Linking Park, wow I had great taste in music about 10 years ago.  Nu-metal, scratching and rap vocals    Anyway one of my favourite things in this hobby is to dig up...

Hi, I'm looking for recommendations for cheap (<$25), comfortable and durable in-ears for mum to use with fm radio.  Any ideas?

I have really had it with the music industry.  In they year 21012 they still have not got their act together and found a way to legally distribute their music to the world for a fair price.  I live in Australia, those of you familiar with geography will know it is pretty much the most isolated...

Hi all,   This thread aims to pull into one place all discussion of music server and computer based transport setups.     Please feel free to discuss PC Hardware, MAC, software/apps, remote control, hardware tweaks, software tweaks, links to other discussions, resources and articles...

I have been running a Win 7 based computer as my current combined music server/workstation/gaming machine.  Needless to say each of these applications has very different requirements in terms of hardware, OS and software requirements in order to perform each of these uses optimally.  After weeks...

Decisions Decisions...  Make your vote.

Hi,   I've been trying to select caps for internal install diymod for my 5g 30 gig ipod (thin housing).  So far my research has only created more confusion, and the obvious black gate caps seem hard to come by in Australia currently.  Can anyone recommend any film or electrolytic caps that...

I recently bought some RS1's, and have noticed something very strange.   Even when down-mixing to mono, even reversing earphones, the hi-hat always sounds like its coming  from the right.  At first I thought it was a channel imbalance.  This can really get annoying...   Could this be down...

I'm considering upgrading my source from Essence STX to DACmajic, bit I'm unsure if the additional cost will be justified, especially considering that source money could also go toward more varied headphones... Has anyone compared the STX and DACmajic (or any other external DAC) directly?  ...