Recent content by josh05

This list was really hard to come up with. There's plenty of other albums I enjoy just as much as the ones below... - Pink Floyd - DSOTM - Neil Young - Harvest - Yes - The ultimate 35th anniversary collection - The Moody Blues - Seventh Sojourn - Pearl Jam - Ten - Metallica - Master of...

I auditioned this amp a while back and really loved it. After i got my valve headphone amp i really wanted to get one for my HIFI. I'm not very good at describing sounds but the best way i can put it is; i dont analyse the sound anymore, i just listern and cant stop with my valve headphone...

The AKG has a thread on it from memory that screws to the connector on the cable, Grados don't have this. You should be able to get a genuine Grado one from one of their dealers.

They are easily the easiest on the ear of all headphones I've heard or owned and I've owned grado, akg, hifiman and Philips (my Philips are quite good as well). As far as I know they are meant to have less treble than all other headphones at this price level. It's hard for me to say whether they...

I have their LCD-2's and they are incredible :) everytime I put them on I'm amazed by their level of resolution. Some say they don't have enough treble but I disagree. I can listen to them forever without ever being fatigued, there frequency response is so smooth, no peaks at all. i can't...

You wouldn't be the first person to praise Schiit. They make some damn good Schiit! :) I have their Modi DAC and think it's very good for the money! Just for interests sake, some people over on head-fi are running Hifiman HE-6's directly off 50 to 100 watt speaker amps. Another power hungry...

AKG K7XX do require more power than most budget amplifiers will provide. The EHP-O2 is designed to be one of the most neutral, transparent and powerful budget amplifers out there, it will be able to power AKG K7XX fine. For your taste in music i think it would be a great combination (the AKG's...

+1 whether its placebo or fact who cares if it sounds better too you.

Could it be what this article states "A vinyl record is an analog recording, and CDs and DVDs are digital recordings. Take a look at the graph below. Original sound is analog by definition. A digital recording takes snapshots of the analog signal at a certain rate (for CDs it is 44,100 times...

Which medaia player are you using? IMO the two best by far are Jriver Media Center ($50) or Foobar2000 (free). Both of these support WASAPI, i dont completely understand how it works but in simple terms i think it bypasses a lot of things that happen to the signal while going from PC/MAC to your...

Sennheiser HD600/650, AKG Q701/K701, Hifiman HE-400 IMO would be well worth checking out. If you get to demo the HE-400's make sure you listen to a variety of music though, they are a little coloured and as a result some music sounds amazing with them and some not so good. I've had them a week...

If you use good software like DB Poweramp or EAC and your rips are veryfied accurate by the accurate rip database, I highly doubt there would be any audible difference between the CD and the rip if you were to play them both in the same PC/Mac media player.

Check out the Philips Citiscape Uptown as well. Very comfortable with excellent isolation and soundy pretty nice for the money.

What was your transport into the DAC? Bad transports cause jitter. I had this problem when i had my PC connected to my DAC, the sound was confused and un focused i guess you could say compared to my CDP. I'm not using my PC now but when i was i ended up getting a higher quality power...

I will always buy CD's and vinyl while i can, you get the best of both worlds, a physical copy and a digital one if your willing to rip them, and as mentioned above there are some really good older masters out there on CD and vinyl which arent available to download (Barry Diament Led Zep masters...