"Spiderant" wrote in message
news:mXCSc.82158$J06.81198@pd7tw2no...
I've been a lurker on this and other audio groups for two or three
years
now. I'm an amateur audiophile who tries to get the most musical
enjoyment
I can out of budget equipment. I listen mostly to classical music,
but also
enjoy jazz and some contemporary. I've still got some old records
(Heifetz
playing the Kreutzer, for example) that I keep because I can't find
the
music on CD. I try to get the best sound from the most modest
equipment
simply because I'd rather spend my money on music than on equipment
that I
can't hear a difference with (I built a tube pre-amp, experimented
with
trying to hear the sonic differences between carbon and metal film
resistors, and so on). I tune into this and other groups to get
some decent
advice on things like whether I can hook my Sennheiser 580's to the
speaker
outs of my NAD 3020, whether or not I should make the leap to SACD
or DVD
audio, what components have given good pleasure, and so on. After
these few
years, over the various audio newsgroups, there are some posters I
have come
to trust above all others, and who I think are more interested in
audio and
music than slagging others (even if they do, at times, get caught in
maelstroms):

Howard Ferstler
Arny Krueger
Stewart Pinkerton
Tom Nousaine

I'll have to second the motion. I, too, have received much useful
information from the 4 gentlemen above.

As far as your 580's are concerned, you'll find it desirable to divide
down the output of your amplifier before sending it to the headphones.
Otherwise you will have to turn down the volume control so far that
the signal will be competing with the noise of the amplifier.

Norm Strong