Of course the use of crossfeed is entirely something for people to make their own decisions in life about, like so many things. My suggestion is that people might like to try it if they have not. It is not just something for historic recordings. I think that often it goes a significant way to...

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That is very interesting and I'm just looking over the NativeDSD website now.

Yes the binaural recordings for headphones are usually interesting and fun to listen to. Those are necessarily recorded with that setup where there are two mics in the ears of a dummy head thing. So, they’ll always need to be recordings with two mics in a room, actually similar to how many...

Yes, I absolutely agree with you. I think crossfeed really is often very useful however frequently I see it dismissed by reviewers etc as being something for, maybe early stereo recordings and things like that. The "superstereo" effect of headphones where the channels are 100% divided is often...

I will just randomly mention something great about the HD800S cans while I am, in truth, distracting myself from doing something more productive. The great thing is the weight. They are so light compared with some of the other very expensive cans out there. I find very low weight in cans to be...

I do all my attentive listening with headphones and I've been like that for a lot of years. I got into headphone usage at the beginning of the 90s when I had a pair of Sennheiser HD540 Reference Gold cans, now considered a classic actually. I was living in a small flat in London and if I played...

I hadn't seen that video before but it is very interesting thank you. There is one thing he says which I don't really agree with and that is he repeats the idea the 800S cans are really only good for classical and jazz. I think this is so untrue. I use them for nearly everything. I think that...

I recently acquired a Meier Audio Corda Soul Mk II DAC/amp. I had been using a Meridian Prime with its special power supply for some years. What really stands out for me is how the HD800S scales up in quality with the higher quality DAC/amp. It's inherent characteristics are still in place but...

I see some discussion comparing the Sennheiser HD800S with the Austrian Audio Composer and other headphones. Well I haven't heard the Composer so I can't comment on that. The reason why I'm chipping in is to mention the importance, I think, of the DAC/amp in all this (or the amp, if you are...

Back in the 80s I had a friend who had the Dynavector arm mounted on a JBE turntable. I remember that it was a wonderful sounding thing. It had a really big and kind of magnificent soundstage. I can't remember what cartridge he was using.

Those Dynavector arms are extremely heavy. I wonder if the LP12 like turntable has a suspended sub-chassis and will it take that weight? I'm sure you have already addressed this. I remember those arms back in the 80s when I was using turntables myself. The Dynavector is quite a marvel of...

You might very well be 100% correct. I think it is possible that the CD transport offers simplicity. When you rip CDs to a computer then you will be reading those copied files from your drive for playback. That is taking place within the complicated electrical world of your computer. I use...

I am weighing up different CD transports now actually. The new CD transport is to be used with my very recently acquired Corda Soul Mk II. I'm quite interested in the Teac VRDS-701T which is £2k in the UK. It is a lot but pretty much all my dedicated listening is done with CDs (actually the...

I'm sure it sounds great but I thought it was compulsory to listen to Neil Young with a pair of massive 70s speakers and an amp with shiny aluminium front and yellow VU meters, the source must be an LP spinning on a turntable, of course and then the cover is on the knees of the listener being...

This caused me to remember, possibly, that back at the end of the 80s Pioneer introduced an amplifier in which the internal wires were all grey. They said this was for better sound quality. I've just had a little search of the web for any info about this, is my memory correct? I think it was the...

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Grado sell that 4 metre cable but I think an extension of about 1 metre would be very useful to many people. The original cable with my SR325x cans is excellent for plugging them into my Meridian Prime DAC/amp which sits on my desk however quite often I have things set up so that I'm a bit...

The SR325x cans are surely perfect for this CD: I actually have the original LP of Entertainment by the Gang of Four which I bought when it was released in 1979, however I haven't had a turntable for a couple of decades. Anyway I was buying a different CD at Discogs but it was under the price...

That person likes to have a few drinks at the weekend, then they come home late and want to listen to music so they use their Grado headphones, so as not to disturb the neighbours, however as they are a little inebriated they miss the socket for the jack plug a couple of times.

That's how it is in the UK as well.

Hi I saw that pair on eBay. I was thinking they looked extremely nice indeed :gs1000smile:

Yes that is a really good review and very interesting for me because I'm a month into ownership of these very same cans and so I'm still full of initial impressions. I think the Headphone Guru describes them very well indeed.

I first encountered something like this in the 1980s when I was a motorcyclist. I and all the other motorcyclists would sneer at BMW motorcycles and their owners. The owners we so stupid, we'd say, paying all that money for something that didn't perform any better than our regular bikes. However...