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I had the opportunity to listen to the Canal Works demos in Hong Kong just yesterday. Their flagship 6 drivers didn't attract me. Thought they sounded slightly like the UE18s, and had average clarity (or even a bit blurred), but a laid...
I always feel that if you like tubes you should put it to the amps. Would the DAC with tubes add in a lot of distortion?
Quote: Originally Posted by tupac0306  This is what I find from erji.net. A thread originally made by a guy from Hongkong kevin_cartier.  I found it's quite useful, specially for people who wants to...
Definitely fake. There are truck loads of fake Nordost cables in Chinese Ebay, so I'm pretty sure a few  got put on the real Ebay by sellers.
I use the UERM with my AT-HA5000 at home, and it certainly sounds excellent!
Ah yes, I can hear it. Sounds like the singer is about to shout out something on the high notes. But this only occurs on the high notes, and the songs I listen to tends to falsetto those notes, so this effect is not very noticeable for...
That's a rather broad band of frequencies. I think its not exactly resonance, but the sound seems to be off, am I correct? Male singing tends to sound female, and mature voices tend to sound young. Also I seem to hear some odd...
I did experience some different sounding W5000s. The ones I have are slightly on the cold side, where one pair I heard in a fair was completely warm. Really surprised me when I heard it. You are probably much more sensitive compared to...
I agree that it is muffled and doesn't sound as good if they are paired with a bad amp. However I must add that the coloring of the HA5000 is as extreme (some may disagree) as the W5000, that it can change the sound of a headphone...
Also, for classical music, I feel that both the W5k and W3k really doesn't do well in the large orchestral pieces. In this are the HD800's massive sound stage really excels. But, the ATHs perform much better in small ensembles. The...
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