The Soundstage Head Club - Page 2

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Originally Posted by Huxley 

For iem's i vote yamaha eph-100, they beat even my pro 900's for soundstage.

IME it's not unusual for IEMs to beat closed full-sized headphones in soundstage. The EPH-100's presentation is decent, but not as open as some other's. Out of the ones I've heard, I'd vote for the Sony EX1000, JVC FX700, Final Audio FI-BA-SS and AKG K3003 for most spacious soundstage.

Amps that have noticeably bigger soundstage than others that I have heard:

AMB Beta22

Cavalli Audio Bijou (especially when paired with Beyer T1)

Dac:

Buffalo 24

Size/quality of power supply seem to matter in terms of soundstage of amp or dac.

amps:

Eddie current zana deux, the deepest soundstage i've ever heard..

For IEM's, I'd add the JVC FXC-51's, they are reminicient in size of soundstage to my FA-011's :D and they are only $35, HUGE bang for the buck

Westone 2 has pretty wide soundstage for an IEM, doesnt feel far behind HD600s at all. I dont know how HD600s fare against other headphones, but they are definitely not as wide as HD555s.

Let's add the Beyerdynamic DTX910. They are open back and they give me a lot of Head Room.

The Xeport 5010-8 is an IEM and it can even throw further sonic cues then my VSonic GR06. Very Wide Soundstage, but depth is average for the price.

On the Staxen, the SR-009 isn't a Lambda; as far as I know it's just the SR-009 (it looks more similar to the Omega series though). An example of a Lambda would be the SR-Lambda, a modern headphone would be like the SR-507. I don't know much beyond that, or what any of them truly sound like though.

I'd say we could also add the Sony MDR-SA5000 to the Sony camp and the Kenwood KH-K1000 to the closed section. 

On the "question" over whether or not the HD 600 should be up there - my HD 580s are "good" but probably the "worst" of my entire collection in terms of soundstaging (yes even against the Kenwood closed headphones); much better than lots else though. So I'd say "yes" for them, but maybe someone else has another opinion.

What about throwing in some albums or something that take advantage of headphones that have large sound stage capabilities?

That's a very cool idea! 

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Originally Posted by vese 

What about throwing in some albums or something that take advantage of headphones that have large sound stage capabilities?

we can start with that:

http://www.head-fi.org/t/511850/awesome-binaural-albums

So far for me:

-Sony MDR-EX500 & 700 (now it should be: EX510, 600 & 1000): Reasonably open soudstage

-Sony MDR-XB700 - open soundstage, not as open as the D2K's though

-Westone 2's - open

-Denon C710 & C751 - airy soundstage

-TFTA 1XB & 1V - airy soundstage

-Atrio MG7 - closed sound stage

-MTPG - open soundstage

-Sennheiseir IE7 & 8 /80 = Very wide soundstage

-PFE112 - reasonably open

Hope this helps a little

Haha - "sound expensive" - I love it.