Introduction
The ASG-2 is Aurisonics' second (official) foray into the world of iems. The guys over at Aurisonics cater primarily to the music professional crowd, and their products are...
My opinions
Sound
The sound produced by the HD558 is rich, a bit light, and isn't bloated with bass which is a good thing. It has a crisp treble and punchy bass, very great...
Introduction
In the past 2 years VentureCraft has been successfully creating amps and DAC/Amp packaged components with their GD-03, Go-DAP 4.0 for iPhone 4(s), and Go-DAP X for their...
A friend of mine needed a new headphone, which was cheap, closed and good sounding. I said to him, dream on friend it will be very tough to find a headphone with those criteria.
But then after...
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Summary
BUILD
The AKG K550...
You guys will kill me for this, but what the heck... I listened to them while in Tokyo last weekend, but forgot to take any notes! I only remember them sounding very good (and I normally don't like IEMs). I did get some half-decent pics though.
You guys will kill me for this, but what the heck... I listened to them while in Tokyo last weekend, but forgot to take any notes! I only remember them sounding very good (and I normally don't like IEMs). I did get some half-decent pics though.
Great photos. Love the new case.
Any reflections on how they isolate? Do they seem vented (which I would not mind)? Thanks!
Okay then, I'll put that under the category of "photography trick". It is the featured hi-res image of the IE800 on the Sennheiser website. With the reflections and all, zoomed in it looks pretty real to me:
Looks like a cobra... the IE800 ready to strike fear into the hearts of wallets of head-fiers all over!
Quote:
Originally Posted by james444 ^ Dang, that looks like a 2.5mm plug on the splitter. I'll be needing an adapter for my wireless headset.
That Y-split looks no smaller (if not bigger) than the BA200's gargantuan monster; at least it's smooth, I guess. Also, that plug looks recessed --- may pose some problems?
I want a good pair of IEMs, but I am wondering if I just shouldn't go for the IE80s, 700€ seems a bit steep for IEMs. That being said, I paid 1000€ for my HD800 headphones lol.