I have not visited for a while... My contribution to this thread:
Grado SR-60
I bought many different headphones last year, including higher Grado models. I ended up selling ALL of them in ebay. I only kept the Grados SR-60. These sounded better than anything else to my ears, including the higher Grado models. Am I tone deaf? Maybe....
Now I would like to try the Etymotics ER-4S. I am curious to see if these are as good as people say they are... Plus I want something other than earplugs for when I cut the grass.
I must add the ath-100ti. but only for jazz(which I listen to mostly) I'm sure lou has before but has since jumped ship for the ath-1000
people's main complaint is the lack of bass, but for jazz it is great. You really hear the standup as what it was meant to sound like, not as buzz or hum like in more modern music. I am listening to medeski martin and wood right now and I can hear the wood creaking and strings twanging, even chris woods' obligatory scatting over the bass solo.
Otherwise the detail is intense, great to add a live quality to normally reserved jazz recordings
of course I have a pair of sr80's sitting nearby in case I want to rock out.
Originally posted by DoctorT I bought many different headphones last year, including higher Grado models. I ended up selling ALL of them in ebay. I only kept the Grados SR-60. These sounded better than anything else to my ears, including the higher Grado models. Am I tone deaf? Maybe....
Or maybe not--are you running without an amp? Generally seems the "better" headphones really require an amp to reach their potential. Maybe the SR60s are the best phones out there (for you) without an amp...
Just a thought.
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I just bought the Sony MDR-CD3000's, and I would just like to say they are absolutley fantastis, the amount of transparency and detail is completely unrivaled by any other headphone I've ever heard (RS-1, Senn. 580, DT 880). This is w/o any doubt in my mind a purchase well worth every one of the $400 I spent.
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I'm very happy with my HD600s. I auditioned a few others before purchase and to me they were the best. They aren't any good for portable use, but the sound is great and they're quite comfortable.
Having said that, HD580s can sometimes be picked up for half the price of the HD600s and they're meant to sound almost as good.
ESP/950's with the E/90 amplifier. I've seen a few people claiming they sound awful (blaming the amplifier- how they come to this conclusion I have no idea since you can't readily connect the phones to any other amp because of their proprietary or at least unique connector) but I have side by side compared them with Sennheiser HD-580s and Stax Lambda Signatures (the ones with the funny looking big boxes that cover your ears) and their matching vacuum tube amp and find the Koss phones to be quite good in comparison.
Ah well, there's no accounting for taste... including mine!
The most noticeable difference between the Stax phones and the Koss phones was a more forward placement of the sound image with the Stax phones which I attribute to the drivers in the Stax units being placed forward of the ears and aimed back across the head toward the ears.
MR
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I like using the Sennh mx500 with Slic Sound. Bass response is great, if you like bass, but overall I find I don't have to turn up the volume to hear full range. If youhaven't tried Slic Sound on ear buds, you should.
this high ohm version of the dt250 is not well suited for portable useage but shines in the studio. Infront of an amplifier of quality the dt250-250 produces a very flat response with little or no colour, with beter range response and clarity in the 250ohm version over the 80ohm version. It is a closed headphone which produces very good isolation and is sutible for long term use due to its very comfortable fit for people with mid sized ears (they tend to cramp larger ears). Finaly it is a bombproof design that hardly every breaks and when it does beyerdynamic is quite happy to fix it for either very cheep or for free if it is within a year.
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