Introduction
The ASG-2 is Aurisonics' second (official) foray into the world of iems. The guys over at Aurisonics cater primarily to the music professional crowd, and their products are...
My opinions
Sound
The sound produced by the HD558 is rich, a bit light, and isn't bloated with bass which is a good thing. It has a crisp treble and punchy bass, very great...
Introduction
In the past 2 years VentureCraft has been successfully creating amps and DAC/Amp packaged components with their GD-03, Go-DAP 4.0 for iPhone 4(s), and Go-DAP X for their...
A friend of mine needed a new headphone, which was cheap, closed and good sounding. I said to him, dream on friend it will be very tough to find a headphone with those criteria.
But then after...
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Summary
BUILD
The AKG K550...
Given Tyll's comment and Kevin Gilmore's mysterious remark from last year, could this indeed mean that a new electrostatic headphone is on its way?
They asked me for my opinion about that and what I said was that an estat would be lovely, but what was really needed was a flagship dynamic can to go with all those killer multi-kilobuck dynamic headphone amps out there. There is still a bit of cognative dissonance when you buy a $3000 headphone amp and run $500 cans on it. We need a very expensive and versitile (meaning modularly cabled) ultra-high performance dynamic can. I have no idea how seriously they took my comments though.
Sennheiser will come out with a new high-end headphone. It's not going to be the HD-700, and (here's the expanded part) I can't wait. Not only because i can't wait to hear it, but because if they allow you guys to speculate too long we're going to run out of numbers. I'd hate to have to talk about the HD-47000344.
Thanks for the info Tyll. I hope the next flagship model combines the HD600 with the 650's charctaristics. If they could have the detail of the 600's and the lows of the 650's...that would be perfect!
Thanks for the info Tyll. I hope the next flagship model combines the HD600 with the 650's charctaristics. If they could have the detail of the 600's and the lows of the 650's...that would be perfect!
I don't think AKGk701s have the same bass, and darkness of the HD650s, infact its lows are even worst then HD600s.
Let's not go there in this thread - my comment would be that it 1) depends on the system and that 2) the 650s have nasty bass unless used with a nice balanced amp - and then someone would counter that, and this thread would degrade into the same old off topic chaos.