I searched the cable and headphone forums for any threads geared towards the Black Dragon Single Terminated GS 1000s, but came up with little..:stoic:
Well after owning and hearing the stock GS 1000s, I was very impressed. Although their sound signature has been deemed the Un-Grado of the lineup, there are passages and music selections that these cans absolutely excel at and then some that other cans simply can not match..and still other music selections that some feel that HP/PS-1 do better than the GS1000.
The Black Dragon GS1000 is possibly the most detailed yet balanced sounding Grado phones produced by John Grado at low levels.
Not only is the Black Dragon Cable sturdy and professional looking, its effect on the GS helps the phone become more full sounding overall; but the phone still has the attack and an enthusiasitic or livelike reproduction of the master analog signal that is just sublime. There is no struggle to discern the marks in the mid band or anywhere really in the FR or within the sound stage. The sweet Grado Mid Range is here, and further from the RS away from the listener, the sound and presentation is more realistic yet littered with detail and dymanics. The GS exibits massive imaging abilities VS other Grado phone and the Black Dragon cable seems to improve upon this trait. The marks in the extreme lower and upper register are improved in the way of clarity and overall tone. And although indicitive of a Grado phone which tends to be with a slight color, this works to a positive attribute in making certain genres more life-like.
The larger headstage of the GS accentuates the note decay with vast depth and pinpoint accuracy imaging, which together helps place much of the music accurately. This effect helps to portray nice control of tempo and PRaT. This gives the soundstage as a result a more 3D and organic body.
On the Beatles MFSL Help (LP), and in the song "Another Girl" --when the song goes .."I ain't no fool but I don't take what I don't want.."
The speed and rhythm of this song, as it thumps, delays, and bounces along naturally to retain its tempo is absolutely life-like on the BD GS1000. I can not explain it really, it sounds magical, alive, and 3D in terms of the imaging and tone. The imaging capabilities of the GS really help the phone shine in this area. Where the BD GS1000 differentiates and relates itself from an HP-2 (HP1000) is in imaging a more 3D headstage while pulling off its own "disappearing" act. (like the HP1000 disappears sonically, this phone may disappear comfort-wise).
The headstage appears clearer and easier to distinguish between transients and primary soundstaging bearing more depth and breathing more realism into music.
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System Of A Down ' toxicity ' 2LP ' 1st pressing~
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Tokyo Police Club ' elephant shell ' 180G ' 1st pressing~
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Last edited by Audiofiler : 01-23-2008 at 09:18 PM.
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Congrats! You might be the first to offer impressions of this combo, so thanks! I embrace the "Most Un-Grado-like Grado" family, so I'm glad you have as well and are enjoying it!
Congrats! You might be the first to offer impressions of this combo, so thanks! I embrace the "Most Un-Grado-like Grado" family, so I'm glad you have as well and are enjoying it!
Quite the honor having Jahn be the first to post a reply to my thread, thanks much.
Hope some of this information is useful to those that care to hear my feedback..as the intention was to help provide feedback in this are ...and currently I could find none of.
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Originally Posted by darkninja67
subtle (well kind of)
Congrats to the OP on finding a pair of headphones that he seems to love.
Thanks man!!
__________________ Audiofiler contributes daily to looking for a headphone with the slam of the he90, the mids and vocals of the r10, the details of the Q 010, the enigma or Duggeh's Floats, the bass of the l3000, the comfort of the gs1000, the build quality of the HP1000, and at the price of the ksc-75, alas..
Last 4 LP's acquired
System Of A Down ' toxicity ' 2LP ' 1st pressing~
Beck ' guero ' 2LP ' UK 1st pressing ~
Tokyo Police Club ' elephant shell ' 180G ' 1st pressing~
Alice In Chains ' jar of flies / sap ' limited edition set ' 2LP ' 1st pressing ~
Behind closed eyelids. In very many cases, the visionary quality, the quality of the vision so to say, spills over, into the external world, so that the experiencer, when he opens his eyes, sees the outer world transfigured
Last edited by Audiofiler : 01-23-2008 at 09:19 PM.
Whether you agree or not, as to the sound and output of the new Grado GS1, if you are a music fan *not just a Grado person*, you owe it to yourself to hear these period, I am stunned by their output..
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That part scares my wallet.
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Are you using one of your PCDP's as a source?
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Also, speaking to the peaks on the graphs folks have discussed, these cans do not project the sound in the same signature/manner as the stock GS1's, and my advice... consider buying a miniature fridge and stage to put by your listening chair, you are back on the stage people...come down from the 10th row, the mids are shredding again, and they are not jangling in your ears with 300% of the volume in the upper register, making the music and the Mids difficult to enjoy
So, in other words, the Black Dragon's helped these GS1000's to sound more like AKG 701's?
Review: Black Dragon GS-1000 Statement Series
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