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I'm not sure about the cost in Singapore, but I'd recommend the Audio Technica ATH700. They are very comfortable, and have a clean open and detailed sound with a balanced response good for mixing. You can use the same headphones for games, movies and pro work. In fact they should work very well for the movies and games. Put the $100 towards getting one good set.

Hi Guys, Long time no see, I haven't been to this forum for years!I recently went to the Bristol hi-fi show in England, and one thing completely blew me off my feet, which has never actually happens to me at a hi-fi show before! It was the Smyth Research headphone system. It has re-kindled my interest in headphones. I used to have a pair of AKG K1000 but sold them when I needed money. I still have a good speaker system. The Smyth Research product is a little box that can take any speaker system and the acoustic environment it's in (including surround up to 8 channels), and accurately reproduce it by a pair of good headphones. They provide Stax with the equipment. It doesn't sound that amazing when I say that, but when I say accurate I mean it. You can't tell the difference between speakers in front of you and the simulation. Actually in their demo I could because the headphones had over-all better quality. I told the guys I figured that the market for their product was not Hi-Fi geeks but the pro audio side. My friend for example is a composer and often works in his favourite studio in London, however he does a lot of work at home too. The problem is that his home studio is a converted small bedroom with no chance of giving him decent accurate monitoring, all he can fit is some small near-fields either side of his computer screen. If he mixes something at home, it invariably sounds different in a proper studio control room, or indeed on a domestic hi-fi. With this gizmo he could record the properties of the studios acoustics + monitors where he usually works, and have that exact same monitoring environment in his tiny home studio. Mix translation from home to studio would be perfect. He could even capture the sound of my hi-fi in my listening room or a stereo in a car and hear his mixes back just as though he were there. If the owner wanted to, they could hire the control room at Abbey Road or Air studio for example and capture the sound of that set-up and take it home with them. It's quite expensive at about $3000 but it does come with a pair of Stax headphones. The limitation is that you need a real environment and system to 'capture'. You wear some tiny in-ear microphones and play test signals through the system and acoustic environment you want to capture. It is personalised to that listener only, since everyone's ears are slightly different. I don't know how well generic simulations work if they are not captured using microphones in your own ears, but I gather it does work to some degree. In the case of domestic users I can see three main advantages being - Perfect alternative to a full speaker setup for late night listening. Get the soundstage out of your head 100%. If you have access to a great speaker set-up in a great room, you can visit, capture the setup on your Smyth box, then return home and have it to listen to whenever you want. I'm well excited

Surely the 'professional' would say the DT100 as its what the professional uses for everything! Try Stax?

I have sold them! *sob* But they helped to finance a pair of PMC AML1 speakers so I am very happy. I will have to get a pair again when I have the cash though Have fun with your K1000!

I haven't been here for ages, I drop by just to see what?s going on and you are all talking about my favourite headphone! Anyway I found that the brightness was REALLY improved with a change of the extension cable. I replaced it with a pure silver one and it completely fixed any sibilance or brightness as well as improving detail. So have any of you tried the Sony R10 while I have been away? Cheers,

I agree with Rawhit. I loved the AKG K1000's for all music, even linkin park! They can do rock, jazz, classical, chillout because they just reproduce the signal very very well. It is the artists and recording people who should make it sound 'nice' not the headphones.

They would be great for mastering and mixing, but for foldback infront of a mic they will not be any good as they leak a lot. I didn't know you were here Hacknet! Nice to see you! lol

Kewl! Can you play other file types other than MP3? Like uncompressed ones? Hmm.. my friend had a 80Gb one about 1 year ago But well done..

What do you want to do with it? Use it for MIDI or in-built sounds? Get parts from it? Or do you mean a REAL one with knobs and dials and oscillators and all the wires etc..? BTW, has anyone noticed how the quality of Roland?s keys have really gone down?

Look what i found when innocently searching for 'Rockwool' sound insulation!!! www.ukcultivator.biz A very nice site It's so tempting I just cant read it or I will start to grow something!!! hehehe... I thought I would let you guys take a look and doom someone to a life of 'puff-puff-pass' do doubt! (Why don't we have an evil icon?)

Well, this is my first post on the un-related thread! I have been without any good hi-fi for around 5 days now!!! AHH!!!! Its mad! I can't wait to get my new speakers though - PMC AML1's I have just been listening on my AKG K55 headphones

Srry guys bored at lunch... nothing better to do

Right well I recently decided to sell my 'Limited Edition Wood' AKG K1000! I figured HPC would like it as it is wood! Only 1 of these headphones were built for the Chairman of AKG, and I happen to have it! This was taken from the sales literature:- "The Limited Edition Wood K1000 has 2 ergonomically designed 'sonic cones' that protrude form the diaphragm. They are built from wood gathered by magic pixies in Never-Never Land. They are crafted to fit into the ear canal and provide a direct connection to the Maleus (Hammer). This helps to provide an increased bass response that you can really feel! There is a slight cross-over of the two 'sonic cones' inside the brain and this helps to give a very natural cross-feed to your listening experience. The soundstage is also helped as the direct connection between the 'Sonic Cones' and the Maleus, means that the small timing differences that provide our brains with the information of positioning, is transferred much faster than normal headphones would manage. The 'Sonic Cones' are attached directly to the transducer by a specially developed variant on the carbon 'Buckyball' formula made with a semi-translucent yellow plastic polymer which gives excellent vibration translation characteristics, being in direct contact with the Maleus it only lets through the sound that your ear wants to hear." I KNOW you are all jealous

I think it is caklled 'Upsampling' and many say it makes music sound more detaild and fluid. I couln't tell a bit of differance though! If you want your system to sound better get a better system. No mucking about with upsampling, EQing or anything will fix a poor system! I think you can get boxes that convert coax sp-dif to optical. But they cost a bit! Check out pro-audio distributers. I belive there is one by M-Audio called the Co2. I might remeber wrong though

My attempt at a close up like N@Z's!