Hello All,
I just received my pair of T50's and I have to say reading the OP's thoughts made me laugh because they were very similar mine. I am relatively new to this whole thing but have been enjoying mobile audio for a year now and have tried a number or IEM's including RE0's, DBA-02's, HF5's, and EX600 and have been really enjoying checking out different phones and the ability to enjoy high quality music during times of the day that it would not be appropiate to be blasting music . A few weeks ago I decided I wanted to check out a pair of cans and in doing my research I decided to try the T50's. Lat night I got home and the box from B&H was sitting there so I quickly dug into it and plugged them into my iphone4>JDS CMOY and turned them on and at first I was like Huh.....these do not compare to my EX600's or my HF5's for that matter. A little dejected I plugged them into the home stereo and let them play for an hour or so till me went to bed and up in bed I tried them again and they had gotten noticeably better but still not what I would call great. I listened for an hour or so and I was starting to appreciate them some more but then it was time to go to sleep so I plugged them into the stereo to let them play over night. I am working from home to day and just plugged them into my Ipad2 with the JDS CMOY and these things are pretty darn impressive. I am amazed at the sound stage and how instruments sound like they are coming from different elevations and depths....I am liking these a lot, the whole sound signature fits me well and I am surprised at the amount of bass, well maybe not the amount but the impact.
I have to say I was worried how the CMOY would run these but there is a night and day difference between running them straight out of the idevice and using the AMP. I am sure they could use more power and I am ordering a Maverick Tubemagic A1 to use as both a headphone AMP and a small speaker AMP so I am sure they will be even better when run with some real power but the CMOY is cutting it right now. I find a comfortable listening level to be about 45% of volume travel where as I use about 25% for my IEMS.
All good here.
Cheers,
Jim
