-Picture by me :P
So my new Denon D2000s came in the mail yesterday, I rushed to the box and stabbed my car key through the tape and opened them as fast as I could. Tore that box open and plugged em into my iPod, as expected from other reviews, they sounded pretty good right out of the box but I noticed the very loose bass and the mids sounded recessed and quiet. I wasn't concerned though as I knew how drastic the changes would be after some proper burn in. I proceeded to have an hour and a half listening sesh even though they sounded very preliminary for the time being. Really enjoyed the initial session, even though the bass was really loose, I could still tell how they were going to change, and the soundstage was really quite nice (Any comparisons in this review are to my only other set of cans, ATH-M50s, which I have had for a little over a year now.) So yes the soundstage is definitely much much larger and expansive than the M50s and was quite a treat as I have never owned a pair of cans that I would consider expensive and higher up on the charts.
After about 20 hour burn-in at above listening volume with my electronic playlist:
Wow, that bass has just tightened up drastically, the mids have been brought out quite nicely, and everything is fitting into place much better. I tried a few of the same songs that I had played earlier in my first session, good testing tracks as they have a deep boomy sub bass, nice drum pattens, and a few vocals here and there. There was basically no extra sibilance from the bass like there was in the first sesh. The drums were very punchy and sounded pure, the vocals were so powerful but not overbearing, lower vocalists sound extremely nice, like reggae vocals, and rappers such as snoop dogg, dr. dre, or the guys in jurassic 5. I have listened to mainly dubstep, DnB, chillout/ambient, rap, reggae, and some rock so far. Some of my music that is a little more indie that obviously wasn't recorded with very high quality, it's pretty significant the difference of a good and bad recording now, which is a good and a bad thing. I guess there are just some albums I will have to only listen through my M50s as they don't show as many faults. Oh I almost forgot to mention the comfort, they are quite light, fit on your head like a feather, and so far I have noticed no fatigue while listening. Isolation isn't great but with music playing at listening volume I cannot hear myself type or people talking at a regular volume around me. They leak a little bit of noise, mostly drums and bass leak but it's not awful.
Gonna burn in more overnight with some pink noise and try to get like 100 hours total burn in time then I will come back and write a final review and give it some x/10 scores.
