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    ok, prince, how would you compare the GS1000 and the HF1 you have?

     

    I can't afford the higher end grados but i have a hf-1 and I must say i'm not the greatest fan, and the only thing stopping me from selling is that it's limited edition, if sell then heart very pain. At the same time I've read so many bad things about this GS1000 I don't know what to believe, and I haven't heard it myself. So what, to you, are the myths?

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    if you have background hiss only on some tracks but not others then I'm quite sure it has nothing to do with your equipment. I doubt it has anything to do with your encoding to mp3s - as far as I know encoding to mp3s just make the sound less detailed but doesn't introduce any background hiss.

     

    short of remastering the tracks yourself, I don't think you can remove the noise.

     

    It is indeed wrong to assume that all cds are free from hiss. Old cds especially which are remastered LPs tend to have some. You can perhaps think of the hiss as retaining the flavour of an old recording. Almost all of ella fitzgerald's tracks i've heard on cd have some kind of background hiss, which gives it that 'old recording' feel. Even some new recordings have hiss, and the effect can actually be quite nice sometimes e.g. in rachael yamagata's cd titled happenstance i think the effect is deliberate and i like it.

     

    if you really cannot take the hiss, you could just listen with speakers sometimes, which always make background hiss less apparent as petia alluded to. Short of that, make sure you test cds you're going to buy. Very well remastered cds can remove all background noise (Led Zeppelin's remasters - I think the market is bigger here so the quality is better?), the less good ones tend to retain a low level hiss which is still tolerable, but poorly recorded ones can make it quite unlistenable...

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    i bought a xin supermini before but that was a year ago. I still use it though great portable solution due to its small size.

     

    However, I've read some complaints on his forum about the long lag time getting longer. Basically, you will get your amp, but only after about 6 months or more...

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    Headroom gives a nice, easy-to-understand run-through:

    Standard headphones have three electrical connections: one to each ear and a common ground wire. The audio drive signal goes to one side of the driver coil in each earpiece, and the return from the coils joins together in the common ground connection. In balanced headphones both sides of the driver coil are driven simultaneously and no common connection between channels exists. Therefore, balanced headphone amplifiers generate a normal and a perfectly inverted audio signal. The inverted signal is basically a mirror image of the normal drive signal; so when the 'normal' signal is going positive, the inverted signal is going negative in an identical sine-wave relationship. In brief, this complex method of driving headphones effectively doubles slew rate, voltage swing, & power output, and halves the output impedance of the amp as seen by the headphones. The result is a dramatic improvement in audio quickness, musical clarity, and sonic impact.

     

    I also believe balanced connections are basically immune to RF interference.

     

     

    i still don't understand. lol :rclxub:

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