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post #256 of 264
1/31/12 at 3:59am

Good stuff above, I was going to write something myself, but it's a pretty good summary.

 

eBay probably has lots of "Japan proxies". Currently I see one KH-K1000 around ($409 with shipping) and he mentions "If you can't find item you're looking for, please feel free to contact me. I will find any item for you.". I didn't buy my phones from him but someone else that also was very friendly and willing to ship anything (PM me and I can provide contact). Probably you can't go wrong with anyone having good feedback. The advantage over Audiocubes or so is that you can just directly ask for stuff and probably haggle with the price (also they are more than happy to write low customs values). My EMS package came to Europe in less than 2 days (but hanged in customs for 1.5 weeks, aargh).

 

edit: remove some old pointless stuff


Edited by hekeli - 4/22/12 at 4:10am
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post #257 of 264
1/31/12 at 5:56am

edit: remove pointless information

 


Edited by hekeli - 4/22/12 at 4:10am
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post #258 of 264
5/13/12 at 10:24am

Any chance of the Beyer DT990 PRO's being as good as these or close?

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post #259 of 264
5/13/12 at 10:41am
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Any chance of the Beyer DT990 PRO's being as good as these or close?

I personally rate the Kenwood much higher than the DT990 I owned.

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post #260 of 264
5/13/12 at 10:41am

Can you please elaborate? : )
 

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post #261 of 264
5/13/12 at 11:21am
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Can you please elaborate? : )
 

The DT990 have a distictly U-shaped frequecy response, with somewhat piercing highs. The KH-K1000 are much more balanced with a more polite high end. I have called them in the past a closed version of the HD650. 

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post #262 of 264
5/13/12 at 11:27am

Thanks Kees, that tells all I needed to know ; )
 


Edited by miow - 5/13/12 at 1:00pm
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post #263 of 264
5/14/12 at 1:04pm

How about the HD598's? Have any of you listen to these? I know these are open, but wouldn't they come close to the Kenwoods in terms of detail, clarity, separation, etc?
 

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post #264 of 264
5/14/12 at 1:07pm
I've tried the HD 595s, and in a quick response: not even close.

The K1000s are easily on the level of the K701 and other top-tier dynamics in terms of detail and speed. They're something special.
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