Wow...was I ever in high-endish audio bliss tonight.
If anybody is wanting to audition headphones, Bay Bloor Radio(in Toronto) has some great stuff on their wall of headphones. They also had few AKGs ...none of the ones I wanted to listen to though but they were nice.
I really enjoyed listening to Grado SR225 and the SR325. The Grados were exactly the way they were described here...awesome bass and in your face sound. AKG K141M sounded nice but lacked the punchy bass...or maybe because it was being run off some crappy source.
They also had Boss Triport at the very bottom row...after listening to the likes of Grado they sounded like such crap. I could make better headphones with coffee cups and strings....infact I didn't like any of the closed phones, not even the Sennheiser HD280. The two headphones that blew me away were the HD600, and the HD650. They had the HD580 on the wall too, and though it sounded the same, it was missing something that the other two had. Again it could be the phones themselves or the source but the HD600, especially, blew me away. It was so comfie and sounded like aces.
The one thing I did notice was that the lower level Grados looked very cheap...guess you really can't judge a book by it's cover.
Sorry for not including words like "bright" and "dark" but I'm a newbie at this, and from what I heard I liked what I liked. I think the comfort issue with the Grado is going to put me off buying these but than again for how much they cost, these are a bargain and a half. I'm even more confussed now than I was at the beginning.
If anybody is wanting to audition headphones, Bay Bloor Radio(in Toronto) has some great stuff on their wall of headphones. They also had few AKGs ...none of the ones I wanted to listen to though but they were nice.
I really enjoyed listening to Grado SR225 and the SR325. The Grados were exactly the way they were described here...awesome bass and in your face sound. AKG K141M sounded nice but lacked the punchy bass...or maybe because it was being run off some crappy source.
They also had Boss Triport at the very bottom row...after listening to the likes of Grado they sounded like such crap. I could make better headphones with coffee cups and strings....infact I didn't like any of the closed phones, not even the Sennheiser HD280. The two headphones that blew me away were the HD600, and the HD650. They had the HD580 on the wall too, and though it sounded the same, it was missing something that the other two had. Again it could be the phones themselves or the source but the HD600, especially, blew me away. It was so comfie and sounded like aces.
The one thing I did notice was that the lower level Grados looked very cheap...guess you really can't judge a book by it's cover.
Sorry for not including words like "bright" and "dark" but I'm a newbie at this, and from what I heard I liked what I liked. I think the comfort issue with the Grado is going to put me off buying these but than again for how much they cost, these are a bargain and a half. I'm even more confussed now than I was at the beginning.
I didn't get the benefit of a demo though, only lots of reviews. I'm currently listening to my 225s, and I have no regrets 
