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The pads are the same size, but the material is different I believe.

this thread is reminding me of the hammerforumusa.com joke from a while back:

http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2012/03/hammerforum-com

btw, OP, you don't need an amp for the ATH M50x.  Personally, I like them a lot and I use them when I travel quite a bit along with my Beyer COPs.

Actually every individual Lcd-2 sounds a bit different. They are boutique headphones after all. I'd try to find the Rev 3 though since the major change has been to shore up the connector port on each cup. They crack on the earlier revisions.

hmm im wondering, do you guys even have a soundcard? you all answer without logical explanation which i believe you guys never have any experience with it.

i don't want to take advice from someone who hasn't own one.

I have the Xonar Essense STX and the DG.

I agree with ShearMe.  They all sound the same to me.

I'll just leave this here...

great thread for beginners and audiophiles.

i have a question for u. what is the difference between the Beyerdynamics DT990 Premium (600 Ohms, 250 Ohms) and DT990 Pro 250 Ohms?

 

i have a huge taste for all round sound. i prefer bass and clarity. i would love to get one of these. infact im just in middle of deciding which one should i get between these or Sennheiser HD 650s. i want the headphones to last for at least 2-3 years.

 

advise will be appreciated.

thanks

Premiums - Nicer finish, straight cable

Pros - Curly cable

bout it except the obvious lack of impedance choices, but all of the models sound nearly the same.  The 250 Ohm model is fine.

Get the Beyers.  They're much cheaper, especially the Pros.

Start an emergency fund

Save for higher education (e.g electrical engineering)

Basically, anything other than spend it all on audio equipment.

http://amzn.com/B00AE0IEHM

mine

Sorry if it's confusing I was just asking why he was saying forget the Bose hate I didn't know there was any

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A-kD3-wAEc

:rolleyes: OH YEAH WE'RE BOSE BIG SOUND SMALL SPEAKERS.  It's marketed to jet set baby boomers so they can re-live the "glory days" of WWII or Woodstock or w/e so it's not really appealing to our generation.  Basically if you don't feel important or drive a BMW, Bose is probably not marketing to you.  So a lot of kids still see them as the "holier than thou" sound company and hate them.  I can't blame them.

Malwarebytes premium and bitdefender pro only.

k, nvm then.  I've just noticed on many occasions that certain programs can get really clingy to audio programs and cause them to run out of buffer and skip constantly.

you wouldn't happen to be running McAffee Antivirus by chance?

If you want build quality, get a pair of T1s.  Or LCD-2s.

I just built my machine yesterday! I was hard pressed on a sound car but my budget wouldn't allow it along with many other things. My main concern was audio quality. My last computer was built in 2003 and the motherboard was from 2003 and had 2003 quality to it. Basically you could hear crackle and pops from the motherboards electrical activities and it would make your ears ring and become tired.

 

My worries that this would be a problem again grew when I bought a $40 motherboard from ECS. Surprisingly it isn't half bad; no crackle and pops like I'm listening to my cereal. However it still can't power my cheap but very great Audio Technica ATH-M30. So what I did was hooked my computer to a cheap reciever; a Yamaha RX-V590 that was given to me from my brother for $50. I used a cable that had two audio plugs (those white and red plugs for L and R) that run to a 3.5mm jack. I connected the two audio plugs to the receiver and the 3.5mm to the back of the computer into the motherboard audio jack. The audio runs from the computer to the receiver which I plug my headphone into it since there is a built-in amp.

 

My question is what could I gain from an audio card?

The answer: volume.  bout it.  The long answer is the first few questions on the FAQ.  That's the first thread on the audio board if you didn't already know.

OK so

April Fools!

The real scoop on these headphones is simply that I have never been so disappointed in a headphone.  It actually SOUNDS GOOD, but the hiss that the noise canceling portion puts off destroys that entire concept.  What a shame, but really, the first thing anybody ever asks me when I show them one of my fancy headphones is: "does it have noise canceling?" So that's not going away anytime soon.

Howcome yours look different? 

 

 

 

should i RMA?

 

OP you should call up support, I highly suspect yours might be counterfeit and not mine.

I bought mine from a reputable source.  I'm led to believe that the beats by dre have 30% less root vegetables this version.

In my personal - somewhat obsessive - quest to find the world’s most perfect headphones, I have come back around to clearly one of the most famous headphone designs of all time, the beats by Dr. Dre Studio.  For those of you who are blissfully unaware, Dr. Dre is a once-famous and often overlooked super-genius of the modern hip-hop world who produced works in the early 90’s before finding ways to make even more money in producing without having to carry a tune, rhyme, or whatever it is a rapper actually does.  His other major passion, however, is hi-fi audio reproduction – specifically, speakers.  Fortunately for Dr. Dre, his good friend Jimmy Lovine was even smarter and got him to try designing headphones instead.  The pair’s amazing engineering collaboration led to this sleek, stylish masterpiece that is the envy of poor white millennials the nation over (Monster? Who’s that?).  So, take this moment to gather your jealousness my poor friends, for I am the new proud owner of this piece of audio nirvana.  I’ll have you know they’re everything you think they can be, and more.

Build quality is excellent.  Plush pads are soft on your head and the headphones are extremely light.  Lovine and Dre must have made a deal with the devil for such a super-light material that looks exactly like cheap plastic and aluminum but appears unbreakable.  The headband is padded and comfortable on your head.  There are no screws and the headband snaps with a tepid click.  I’m sure I could wear these forever and never knew I had them on.  Also, they’re very comfortable around your neck unlike the albatross that is the Audeze LCD-2.

Let’s get to the important part now.  The sound quality is what makes a Beats by Dre a Beats by Dre.  You feel the beats through your whole body, unlike other headphones where you feel nothing but regret for not buying Beats by Dre.  The high notes come through loud and clear, without sibilance or timbre.  The mid-range is well balanced and subdued.  What’s that you say?  You heard white noise when nothing is playing?  That’s clearly the soundtrack of your life played in reverse, just like the artist hears it when he’s mixing the track in the studio.  It’s almost as if the noise canceling feature is possessed by the great Dr. Dre himself.

Overall I think no conclusion is necessary.  If you don’t own the Beat by Dre Studios yet, you should consider that you’ve never heard any of your music correctly and that only this headphone will make any of it worth your time.  In that way, $300 is a small price to pay for audio exceptionalism.

Have you popped them open? Dust/hair can hit the "paper" filament and cause a short of sorts.

I've tried three other cables and can't make the noise.  I tried the other cables for a week, and nothing.  Then the stock cable again, and a few minutes later I move the wrong way and it's doing it again.

My pair actually have the same left channel rattling issue, and it's only with the stock cable as I've tried it with a couple others.  It seems to be a microphonics issue as it only occurs SOMETIMES when I rub it against a towel or such.  I can't make it happen on command, I know that much.  Let me know how your RMA goes.

I've read somewhere (probably head-fi forums) that Schiit Modi + O2 is a good choice for those headphones. The LTT forums audio people seem to have disappeared somewhere so I'd recommend reading up on head-fi forums and come back to check new replies. 

I'm still here.  It's that guy with the poodle avatar that write an essay for every post who does that.  The O2 and Magni, like the ODAC and the Modi sound effectively the same, only the magni is louder and you can interpret a whole myriad of differences with volume alone.

I'm with Mayflower, just pick up the amp unless you want to use it with a laptop or something.

And as in the Tom's hardware article, keep in mind I'm just going off the chip spec. Op-amps can have large resistors in front of them, so things may vary brand to brand and board to board. Honestly I should change that in the FAQ to make it more clear.

Implementation is everything.

just louder ? what about the other aspects of the audio like bass and treble

The theoretical EE concept of an amplifier is that no change occurs to the signal except its amplitude (Volume in this case). In practice, it's almost impossible to perfectly achieve, but in audio when an engineer gets close enough we call it "audibly transparent", meaning it is so close our ears and brains won't be able to pick out any differences if we tried. There's more in the FAQ if you're still interested.

Speaking of that that actually does help them if they're close to dying and you need to recover some last minute files.

Btw I thought of the file degradation thing more like RAM errors w/ non ECC memory.

I've tried that 3 times and it's worked once. I'm going to go with only works if the head overheated so worth a shot but by no means foolproof.

I have heard that HiFiMan has some pretty bad customer service.

Their us distributor is hard to get on the phone and is sorta bad with English. Other than that they were very helpful in my experience.

http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

Wait? He's STILL at it?

That's the same player he showed off on the Colbert report.

Straight answer: "lossless" files lose data when compressed into mp3 or whatever it happens to be. They do not lose data over time.

Unless your hard drive starts developing bad sectors or something. But yes, Lyons was repeating a poor 4chan troll. There's no truth to any of that.