Headphones that Reproduce Piano Feq. faithfully?

Denon are comfy for sure.
K1000 and Stax require special(different from Denon/Senn) amping.

I find Sennheiser does classical music like no other.
Their HD600 / HD650 are my favorite dynamic headphones for classical. I recently picked up an HE60 and that has taken my classical music to a whole new level. Simply amazing.

Just go Stax!

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f4/ini...m-717-a-68394/

I'm running the HE60 out of the stock HEV70 amp, and it's much more than a small incremental change, provided you have a good source.

Soundstage is much more focused and expansive (both in depth and vertically). The HE60 add a whole new layer of micro-detail that I have never heard with any of my previous headphones. Instrumental music sounds so natural.

I'm seriously enjoying them to say the least.

If you can afford the 007 though, I would compare the 007 (either version 1 or 2) to the HE60 and see which you prefer. The 007 was out of my price range sadly. It was either the stax 0404 combo or the HE60/HEV70. I opted for the HE60.

Either way though, I would seriously consider an electrostatic headphone for classical music.

First, ignore headphone specs, as it doesn't tell you anything about how a headphone reproduces frequencies and, not to mention, specs outside the threshold of hearing mean even less.

I find my considerably modified Denons (see sig) to be the most natural sounding headphones I have. They are also easy to drive, but naturally perform best out of a good headphone amp. Compared to them, my HD600s, which are a little more relaxed and airy, really DO need serious amplification to get the most out of. Electrostats -- yes, they are a whole mile above and by far are best for jazz and classical. I spent less on my simple vintage Stax set than I did on dynamic headphones and find them more satisfying in that regard.

One would have to be barking mad to choose a 4040 combo over the HE60/HEV70. There no contest which one is better Sure, I'm biased (even though I have owned both)

Towert7 has hit the nail on the head with the description of the HE60's sound. It's very focussed and intense. The room ambience cues are faithfully reproduced.

The SR-007 vs HE60 is really down to personal taste. Out of the SRM-717, I would say it's a tie. I wouldn't be able to pick one over the other. The SR-007 offers a level of effortless musicality and strong bass response which the HE60 can't match. On the other hand, the HE60 has such an insanely detailed, focussed and clean sound throughout its entire frequency response which the SR-007 just can't match when it comes to music with complex textures (eg Shostakovich symphonies, Stravinsky orchestral works, etc). Different strokes for different folks. It would not be insane to consider owning both as they complement each other rather well.

In my experience the Ultrasone PRO750 /2500 are the best for piano.
Perfect tonality and dynamics over the full range.

Yeah, just pick up one of the SR-007 models.
Or a K1000 if you want to stay with dynamic headphones...

I think as awesome as Stax is, the Stax omega alone won't be able to reproduce piano faithfully. It would need to start with a great source. The review uses a Meridian CDP that's probably 50% of the reason to why the sound is so good.

Can't that be said about all headphones?
I say few headphones can reproduce piano frequencies faithfully when fed by an inferior source (and amp)...

grado hp2 is the only fone that i think does piano justice, but they are extremely uncomfortable. if comfort is a must, go after akg k1000.

My vote is for the K-1000s. Piano sounds so real. It's perhaps the open ears and the upfront soundstage and imaging. I do really believe that the psychoacoustic aspects of headphone listening is as important, if not more so, than simply basing a choice on technical specifications.

You think you can hear 5-6 Hz?????

You don't need, nor are you going to get such performance from 99.99999% of headphones or speakers. (Actually I think it's properly zero but you never know about such things.)

But it doesn't matter because audiometry shows no hearing below 20 Hz and there is not much sound to be heard even there. Maybe you can feel some such lower frequencies in your body but the energy level is going to have to be pretty high and headphones are not going to stimulate anything outside of the ears.

Also are you really trying to reproduce piano sounds? What you are describing seems to be a synthesized set-up and this is not going to sound like "real" pianos, all of which sound different from each other and have tuning and weather effects. I know because I pay for the piano tuning for our local concert society, something we do before each piano concert.

It is as hard to talk about piano sound as it is about the sound of the human voice. When I listen to piano on my various stats, usually Lambdas, Sigmas and 007, I hear usually different sounds from each recording let alone each set of phones, just as I do for different human voices. That probably means that the stats are capable of resolving the different overtones in each recording which are critical to real piano sound.

Since bass is a big issue with you get either the Lambda pros models (eg. Pro, 202, 303,404, Nova etc) or 007's just because they have the most bass.

Also bear in mind that amplifier quality has a big impact on sound and many good phones just don't sing until a certain level of amp quality is reached. If you want the best be prepared to pay for it.