I recently imported my CD of John Mayer's Born and Raised album, and decided I would do a little experiment on myself. I uploaded the song "Speak for Me" (as well as a few others) to three different bit rates (128kbps, 256 kbps, and Apple Lossless) and compared the qualities with my rig (MacBook...

Head-fi community, I wrote a paper at my university concerning the concept of the universal recognition of emotion in music sometime in the previous year, and I thought I would share it for comment and critique by my fellow head-fiers. Enjoy!   Music Universals Music is a universal...

I am looking at getting some new cans (particularly looking at beyers) that will be paired with the e17. What would be the highest/optimal impedance for the headphone I would use? I would think 80 Ohms would be good, but what about at 250 or even 600? And for 32 Ohm cans would the difference...

So I am looking for some over the ear headphones with great detail and a big soundstage. I have found that I like more bass than I thought I would (boost the bass on my Fiio e17 up to 6 regularly), so ill be looking for some cans with decent bass and powerful presentation. I do however own the...

So I have this case on my iPhone 4s (Speck Candyshell) and am getting a pair of M50s soon, and I am pretty sure the plug on the m50s will be too big to fit through the case (meaning I would have to take off my case everytime I listened through my iphone). SOO I was wondering... would it be...