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Very quiet, turning up the volume produces a sort of grunting heaving noise from the iPods amp. No dynamics, no bass, no high end, like listening to a portable radio through a pillow. Well worth carrying the extra T-amp if you want portable AMT action tbh.
I'm now sorry I bought two DT880s at the same time ... I should have spent the 2nd $200 on Ergo 2s ... (of course I would have had to have known about these first )
Phenominal review. I laugh just thinking about wearing those at work. I have to buy a pair just so I do that!
The Ergo 2 is a very different sounding headphone. Ive only had mine for a day or two now, but I will provide some extensive impressions on them here soon. I will say this now though. They are much better than the HF-1 and as my memory serves me, better than the HD-650.
Yeah the Ergo 1 and Ergo 2 are regular dynamics, although what those resistors in the wiring path are for I dont know. You might like to hear that I just got my first pair of orthos though, Yamaha HP-50A. Did I snag a decent set?
Yeah the Ergo 1 and Ergo 2 are regular dynamics, although what those resistors in the wiring path are for I dont know. You might like to hear that I just got my first pair of orthos though, Yamaha HP-50A. Did I snag a decent set?
There's a capacitor there along with those resistors. I think we have a case of built-in EQ going on.
Welcome to Team Ortho. The HP-50A is a Euro model that appears to be based on the HP-3/YH-3. Another HFer just won another pair so we should be getting the lowdown soon. If it is indeed based on the HP-3, it may not be top of the line, but the only difference I can see is that the driver is smaller. Like the other Orthos, it badly needs extra damping to sound right, but you may find some characteristics to like as is. Let us know.
I'm the other head-fier who won a pair of HP-50a, which do indeed seem to be identical to the HP-3, except for the wonky brown-on-brown coloration which is all their own, and evidently matched the Yamaha keyboards the 50a's came with.
I'm sad to say that these are by far the weakest of my three pairs of orthos, and depending on my mood get edged out by my KSC-75, whereas my best orthos beat out even my A250. The little Yamahas are nice for portable use, though, as they're quite small, have a short cord, and are relatively easily driven by ortho standards. They also look cool as hell and earn serious style points if you live in the retro-loving hipster mecca of Europe, of which my apartment sits roughly in the bull's eye. But that's another issue.
I'll keep my eye open for another pair of cheap and better orthos for you, Duggeh, and will PM when I spot some. The ones I have in mind will go for less than twenty euros, I think.
ps, the HP-50a are also very different from my other orthos in that they have far more bass than either of the others, which seems interesting in regard to the damping problem. I haven't popped them open yet to see how they managed it. (too busy with my new K340, which I picked up today. The seller was a professor of electronics, I'm a grad student in design history-- a fitting arc for the life span of a K340, no?)
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If they perform as you suggest, then I am definately unlikely to keep them. Shortest period I've kept a headphone is 2 days for the HD545. Will they best that? Perhaps. I had hoped that they might be some long lost bargain of amazingness.
On the AMT front, im listenign to Jean-Michel Jarres Equinoxe on them just now, and its just eargasmtastic.
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