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Originally Posted by jpelg
Without having heard them yet, the PS-1000 supposedly embodies the best of its predecessors - the HP-1000, GS-1000, PS-1, & RS-1's - and kicks it up a notch with slightly updated drivers & cabling. For Grado fans, this will be enough technically. To have a TOTL can that incorporates that heritage, and gives the same or better performance, all in a currently produced & supported headphone, means never having to pay insane prices for HP-1's or PS-1's.
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It would seem that these have nothing in common with the HP-2s. And if the $1,500 that the HP-2s go for is insane, how much more insane is $1,700 for a phone that will lose value after you buy it and not go up. The HP-2 is exactly inbetween liquid and dry. The PS-1 is definately liquid and the RS-1 is definately dry. The PS-1000 is supposedly liquid sounding like the PS-1.
I questioned Zanth on this in another thread, and he agreed that the PS-1000 is NOT a neutral phone which is the only thing I can see in relation to the HP-2. It's more of the PS-1 "liquid" very much unlike the RS-1 sound with the characteristics of the GS-1000. So, it seems to have nothing to do with the RS-1 sound either which is very different from the PS-1 and GS-1000 sound.
Anyway, my point is, the review that made it seem like all these headphones are put into one shouldn't be taken too literally. If all those sounds (rs-1, gs-1000, ps-1) were put into a headphone, I think it would be a disaster because they are all very different, but his point was a smooth PS-1 with GS-1000 characteristics and sound stage from what I gathered with his posts and questions answered.
The PS-1 is at an insane price, but it's a collector's item at this point. I would say that the PS-1000 may be best suited for the people that wanted a PS-1 but didn't want to drop several thousand on it. With the PS-1000 they only have to drop about $2K
