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post #46 of 134
12/12/12 at 12:59pm
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Originally Posted by sofastreamer View Post

yes. especially sub bass. it does not extend as low as the shures. explosions in movies sound way better on the shures.


wow!!! confused_face.gif

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post #47 of 134
12/12/12 at 1:04pm

not to mention, that the shures have a much better expanded soundstage with exceptional layering and imaging. the sonys sound congested in comparison.

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post #48 of 134
12/12/12 at 1:40pm
Another "wow!!! :-P"
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post #49 of 134
12/12/12 at 1:52pm

i thought the 940s were bass light?

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post #50 of 134
12/12/12 at 1:53pm

So did I? :s

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post #51 of 134
12/12/12 at 10:27pm

they are no bass monsters for shure. and they are light in upper bass. but they can deliver real subbass. not xb700 like, but quite rumbling with great timbre on it.

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post #52 of 134
12/12/12 at 10:51pm
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Originally Posted by sofastreamer View Post

they are no bass monsters for shure. and they are light in upper bass. but they can deliver real subbass. not xb700 like, but quite rumbling with great timbre on it.

 

I thought these were midbass heavy?

 

 

1000

 

Seems to be peaked around 100Hz which is in the midbass range. Shure SRH-940 for comparision:

 


Edited by RPGWiZaRD - 12/12/12 at 10:59pm
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post #53 of 134
12/12/12 at 11:15pm

thats what i said. sony looses in sub bass rumble.

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post #54 of 134
12/12/12 at 11:38pm
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Originally Posted by sofastreamer View Post

thats what i said. sony looses in sub bass rumble.

 

Well you said earlier they loose bass quantity wise to the Shure SRH940 which wouldn't be the case if you check measurements, they seem to have about equally much subbass but 1R has 5dB or so more midbass boost. Align -20dB line in Shure SRH940 graph to 0dB line with 1R for an accurate comparision. 

 

From my experience I'd say you're hearing SRH940 as deeper sounding bass response due to lack of midbass boost. If you take away the midbass then it will automaticly sound deeper even if they would both have the same amount subbass because frequency response is all about balance, take away something and you "get more" of everything else. XB500 and XB700 are good examples, both have pretty similarly measuring subbass range but the XB700's bass starts rolling off in the upper-end a bit after 100Hz while on XB500 it goes to like 300Hz. Therefore XB700 sounds like its bass is significantly deeper due to lack of mid/upper bass.


Edited by RPGWiZaRD - 12/12/12 at 11:51pm
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post #55 of 134
12/12/12 at 11:55pm

that might be the case

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post #56 of 134
12/26/12 at 6:01am

Are these really good value for 210$ or is there something better at this price range?

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post #57 of 134
12/26/12 at 7:42am
Is that 210 US dollars? If so, where?
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post #58 of 134
12/26/12 at 7:44am
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Are these really good value for 210$ or is there something better at this price range?

 

You got the PHILIPS Fidelio X1, but those are open. SQ seems to be amazing with alot of bass too.

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post #59 of 134
12/26/12 at 8:04pm
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Are these really good value for 210$ or is there something better at this price range?


IMO yes. They have a nice tonality and sound good with just about every genre to my ears.

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post #60 of 134
12/27/12 at 2:28am

One I can think off that can compete with these are the AIAIAI TMA-1 at 200€ in the EU. But well, these look better, these are NEW, these are not DJ cans, these are SONY... tongue.gif


Edited by miow - 12/27/12 at 3:50pm
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