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You're very funny dingeth...

I may as well chime in since I was called out by name in the very first post (guilty as charged!). I'm a writer so this is going to be story. Strap in and get the popcorn. I found a somewhat fast-tracked path through the head-fi maze by virtue of my brother and head-fi mentor xenithon being one...

Differs greatly between material/fabric, pleather and genuine leather pads, and also between headphones. If looked after, good quality leather pads will almost never need replacing, just wipe them with a damp cloth once in a while and occasionally with leather ?food?. Pleather pads tend to start...

Which headphones?

What Scubadude said. I would only add that I prefer the Elear with Elex pads (more linear sound, better quality material), and likewise with Dekoni leather pads (even better made than the Focal pads but different sound presentation). The stock Elear pads are poor IMO. The only reason I no...

Scubadude needs to chime in here. He now has both (well, more Elex than Elear but he can explain). I?ve owned both but never compared them side by side. Will give my 0.02 in the morning. TL;DR both are unique in what they can do, Elear is MUCH easier to drive and MUCH LESS picky with amps...

Wow, what does a ?745 bridge buy you that a ?200 DigiOne Signature does not?

Great review Wietsche. I can concur, having tested the Katana myself, that this is a superb dac, not only "for the money" but also in absolute terms. Except it's so much more than just a dac. Pair it up with a good amp and you have a complete USB-free high-quality high-res music streaming...

Hi Craig. Which model Soekris is this? I can see the AGD is the R2R-11, right?

Interesting response from Kingwa on the official Audio-gd site (doesn?t mentions Amit by name but it?s clearly directed at him): http://audio-gd.com/En%20audio-gd.htm 　 A message to respond some one The English is not my advantage so the message must had a lot grammar mistook. If I was you...

You?ve just hit the nail on the proverbial head. The idea that every amp and dac should just do its job and get out the way of the music is all good and well, but doesn?t even start to explain why two components that supposedly do that sound completely different to each other. And we also tend...

Hey guys, Does anyone have a Singxer-SU1 or Schiit Eitr DDC in Cape Town? I would really appreciate a couple of hours with one or both on my system. I'd be more than happy for you to join in the fun and have a listen with my headphones/amp/dac while I gather my impressions. For the record I am...

Hi Andre. I completely agree with you! Unfortunately the community of users on this forum is very small, and most don?t have any interest in headphones or headphone gear - mostly because they?ve never been exposed to it living in such a remote market. That said there?s a very strong Pi community...

I don't know Amir from a bar of soap, and still read the reviews on ASR from time to time (for the sake of completeness of course). But one line from Currawong's video sums up my feelings about ASR (and hardcore objectivists in general): Tone sweeps are NOT music. Enough said. 

Wietsche, that's a brilliantly comprehensive, colourful and insightful review! As you know I'm a RPi noob (which will hopefully change soon), and this review elevates my desire to test out this new platform compared to traditional source/dac/amp systems. This community is very lucky to have...

Read an interesting response we from Zach Merbach (Mr ZMF himself) in response to someone asking him what he thinks the correlation is between those who subjectively love tube amps (like he does) and those who objectively argue they measure terribly: ?Well there's a lot of ways to look at...

I found this quote from him in one of his review discussion threads quite enlightening: He used the ISORegen (a USB ?cleaner? which he panned by the way) to test noise reduction on a Schiit Modi, concluding it does indeed clean up the noise of that dac almost completely because the Schiit is so...

Don?t underestimate the power of placebo and expectation bias... There are other things as well that affect the way we perceive our gear, like visual impact. I?m much more likely to overlook minor flaws in sound if the gear is well designed, well made, and visually appealing, for example.

I completely agree there?s a place for measurements. If something can be measured accurately and relatively, it should be. I?m just saying measurements play a much smaller part in my purchase decisions compared to, say, reliable feedback from experienced users and, if at all possible (which it...

And after you've read and absorbed my words of wisdom above (jk), here's an article that describes my position far more eloquently: http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/fragilesouls/fragilesouls.html