robert1325

I am using the cybook. It's nice.

one vote for a Red wine audio sig 30. Little low on power but it has a really beautifull tone. my dad used this battery powered amp on his :

cannot believe how good these are for the money I paid. The warm smooth tone is so cool , like listening to tubes Wish my portable cans sounded like this

OK, so I started poking around with my screwdriver. and after removing some cheapish 80's cocaine plastic I found the cables and could see left right, two seperate ground Hooked this oldie up to my modded trends amp and now she's really singing. WOW , much faster and no congestion. everything has improved. This headphone is as good or better than my speakers now. still different. Can't believe how unheadphonish these sound. Big wide soundstage etc. Miles davis and John Coltrane are here

My amp wouldn't be happy with joined grounds. didn't think of them being tied together at the headphone side Thanks for all your help... I think I'll have to wait and get a decent peace of speaker cable then.

Want to hook them up to my speaker amp * more juice) Was thinking of just stuffing in the bare wires for now and see how it sounds ( attach the cable to my table with some tape)

Ok, forgive me for asking but how would I do this? I've only used my DMM for measuring power supply voltages ( for my DAC and amp) Thanks for your help

Question before I cut of the plug . Are the wires inside color coded? so I know where the cables go on my speaker binding posts? If not I'd rather wait and just recable them when I have a decent cable (probably some copper speaker wire of some Hi-Fi brand) I love the sound so far, but I feel they need more power. they sound a bit closed in /muffled , especially with busy music.

Just got my k340's. Their condition is not as good as I expected . So feel a little ripped of since he asked above my offering with the excuse of mint condition. Also I cannot seem to get the headband adjusted properly. It's stuck or something . they are squint when wearing them. The sound is really great out of my NAD 1600. Listening to some count basie Live at the sands . And the brass sounds so full and smooth. Big soundstage. Lots of audience detail etc. very warm musical sounding cans these. They sound like a speaker headphone combination. both strengths. I feel they can be a little tighter in the low-end, ( they are already) but they probably need some serious amping. my nad amp is at 12 oclock. compared to the 10ish I use with other cans. they go loud without sounding harsh or anything. No distortion. So Half half happy. I guess I'll have to reterminate these soon and get some t-amp oilcap juice flowing .

aha ok... thanks. Hope to join team k340 tommorow .

Philodox, was your t-amp the stock one? hope the trends with oil caps and better pot is up to the job. sounds quite good compared to my dads rwa sig 30 soooooo

Don't know Sounds good to my ears. But the thing I said was only based on some headfiers comment. In my speaker setup the sound is mucho better when connected straight from dac to amp . I'll have to look inside this thing and see how this headphone amp is connected . It might not use the pre-amp part... it has tape-in tape outs as well so it could be connected to the same as these connections. I'm a very noobie diyer ( only changed some caps and volume pots etc. ) DAC

Read that on the temporarily defunct headphone forum.. someone compared them . ( Ofcourse it's just an impression ) It at least gave me an indication that I have a decent headphone amp. the pre-amp part sucks tough. It totally spoiled my speaker setup. The grounds have to be seperated when using a speaker amp ? or not? Thanks for your interest anyway this forum is money .

ah ok, it's quite a warm sounding HP output. Should perform around the level of a gilmore lite (NAD 1600 pre) I'll have to reterminate them BLEH. What would be the easiest way of connecting these to a speaker amp? reterminate them with some flexible speaker wire? I'll first have a listen to them in stock form. See if their tone is my taste. I might trade them for some other cans ... I like my mbquart qp55x which sound like better grado sr60+ a little soundstage.

Hi, Another Head-Filess orphan \ Just snatched a pair of these k340's from a dutch internet market place. a 100 euro including shipping. They are in mint condition. (barely used) Owner told me he got them from a place he used to work. They are here tommorow. I'm using my dads akg k500 ATM , sure hope these are a good upgrade. Might have to do some recabling if my NAD pre does not drive them properply. my modded trends ta-10 will be ok with these I guess. Robert