Quote:   If the midrange sounds receded the audible cues from the treble range and the rather omnidirectional sounding bass frequencies will dominate and the result will be a larger soundstage.  What is really happening is not a larger soundstage but a larger sounding headstage...

Quote: Thank you for the kind words.  $1700 for phones gets one quite enough in the speaker world IF one is not aiming at superior levels of microdetail.  Etys, other IEMS, various headphones, they destroy speakers in the level of audible detail, micro and macro.  Intimacy, that unique...

Quote:   Great minds think alike :)  Indeed, if one has not had the opportunity to live with something long term, I find it difficult to take the opinions seriously.  Again, there will be certain aspects that won't go away or won't magically appear during long listening sessions over a...

Quote:   I was posting with little sleep.  My spelling and grammar were atrocious.  I've cleaned up the format of my posts and corrected the spelling and comma splices after a first pass.  What I meant by the quoted text above was not that the PS-1000s are not capable, or other Grados...

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Hi pcf, Wherein once I was a headphone-centric listener, I must say that these days I am clearly in the speaker camp. This shift has helped me put many aspects of audio in perpsective. I can understand similar epiphanies going from speakers to headphones. I have yet to approximate the intimacy...

I like my PS-1000s. I haven't listened to a recent pair but I have experience with the very first pair (I own it) and a pair in the 600s. I currently own (in order of acquiring): SR60s RS-1 (very first batch) PS-1 GS-1000 iGrado PS-1000 HF-2 In the last few years, I have had or had...

I have access to the albums on the internal memory. Three albums only, all 24/96 and about 600 MB each.

These days, I am old enough to be someone's son! Yeah, I am THAT old.

I'm not sure why I lucked out but I loaded up Rockbox in about 5 minutes and after creating the internal DB, I have been enjoying the super response software with tons of codecs. My one head scratching moment comes form not being able to get a response from the buttons on the top of the unit...

Quote:   For free head to Stephen Booth's site (guy who develops Decibel, an audiophile player for Mac) and he offers a solid programme called Tag.   For something more robust and with two fingerprinting mechanisms as well as autosourcing and other neato features, try Jaikos.  For...

Thank you :)  It definitely has been a while.  Finishing up a pair of PhDs and raising two kids under 5 was brutal.  I'm more organized now that they are older and I'm working sorta normal hours.   Quote:    

Gotta love the acclaim for the Etys :)  I've been listening to them a lot lately with various amps/front-ends and I'm continually impressed at how well they compete with custom IEMS like the Westone ES3Xs etc.  For the cost, they are likely the best value in all of headphones outside of Grado...

Depends on what one is looking for I suppose.  Having had the SR007's, the R10's, the L3000's and the PS-1's all at the same time, I was astounded that I was not floored by the R10's in particular.  What was most telling was when local audiophiles, without any stake in the game, came to the same...

I think that is a fair assessment.  The PS-1000s have a similarity within the Grado lineage but they do sound different than the RS-1s.  The original RS-1's may be the best Grado for me as well as some others, though the PS-1000s are by and large my go-to headphones, and I own the PS-1's.  At...