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post #16 of 20
9/7/07 at 8:20am
Were you listening to Sony MDR-7509 or 7509HD? I've thoroughly auditioned the latter together with broke-in AKG K701's and HD595's, and in regards of overall "listenability" those Sony's kick AKG's ass. The only better was AKG's sweet and lush midrange while Sony's play everything so honest and true, with no coloration. The only drawback is their plastic housing giving sometines slight echos on higher midrange. Bass, soundstage, and overall truthfullness is exceptional.
I hate that treble spike in the 701's, too. I'm relatively young and my ears don't need such a compensation of age or work related hearing loss. The trebles in the 701's sound artificial and overemphasized for me. I'm also a guy who wouldn't swap HD595's for HD580's.
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post #17 of 20
9/7/07 at 8:26am
I have found the HeadRoom graphs to be pretty accurate indicators of a can's basic sound signature, too.
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post #18 of 20
9/7/07 at 8:29am
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Originally Posted by majkel View Post
I'm also a guy who wouldn't swap HD595's for HD580's.
I'm a second guy who wouldn't do that. In fact, I wouldn't swap them for a HD650. Anyone top that?
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post #19 of 20
9/7/07 at 8:37am
that k701 spike annoys too??? even after burn in??? I was talking about the 990 but good lord that would not be good if that spike in the highs of the k701 does not agree with my ears hrtf. Its hard for me to interpret it well because there are no k701s to audition in our country. Interpreting the hd595s graph and listening to them make me feel that those frequencies around 6-10khz that the k701 peaks at are just what I need to make my 595s perfect in tonal balance and I am hoping that the k701s are what my ears need... look at the graphs. My god, the 701s look just like a deveiled 595 and if only graphs told the whole story, these look very similar

EDITED CAUSE ALL GRAPHS ARE IN DIFFERENT LINKS NOW
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post #20 of 20
9/7/07 at 4:08pm
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Well I did notice that the K701s at the higher treble frequencies were quite forceful. Maybe thats why I prefered the K271, since it was a rolled.
And now that I think about it, even though they were the demo model I doubt those K701s got 300hrs of burn in.
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