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Originally Posted by atx
I like the Bose triports quite a bit. They're muddy compared to Grados, but so do most other headphones. My advice to newcomers is to ignore triports haters who tried it for all of 30 seconds at a store. I didn't like my k701 for the first 30 seconds either, which really says nothing about the headphone.
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I had the opportunity to use Triports for a week (I borrowed them on a trip when I lost my cans), and eneded up having the opportunity to compare them to Sony MDR-V600s, which I bought to hook up to my digital keyboard before I knew anything about headphones and are half the price of the Triports. This was a few years ago, but as I recall I eventually decided on the MDR-V600s because they had better resolution and clearer treble than the Triports, even though the sound was a bit livelier on the Triports because the mids were fuller and they were far more comfortable on my head.
To build on this a little bit, I broke the V600s out of a closet after reading this thread and compared them to my Sennheiser PX-100. The PX-100 had more refined bass and didn't feel bloated like the V600 did, the mids and instrument seperation were clearer, and the highs felt "screechy" on the V600 compared to the PX100.
The general opinion here is also that the V600 is inferior to the MDR-V6, which cost only 50-60$.
Admittedly my listening preferences have become more refined over the years, but if we accept my somewhat extended impression the result is that the Triports are inferior to the inexpensive V600s which are inferior to the even more inexpensive PX100s and V6s.
It's all a bit subjective, and although I am sure there is a range of people that genuinely love the Bose "feel" and sound, if my impressions are at all accurate that group of people must be very small.
My impression of the Triports through a week of listening wasn't as harsh as what I hear here, but I was not the discerning customer at the time and i'm sure people here have even better equipment than I do to compare the cans to. I should probably also say that the Triports felt so straightforward that a short impression can pretty reasonably summarize them, if anything after I got over the "shock" of having what I thought were great cans I became somewhat disenchanted.
I also owned the Bose QC2s for some months, and while they are better than the Triports and probably the most comfortable headphones i've ever owned I far preferred the HD-580s I owned at the time by a wide margin (although in all fairness I had a Gilmore Lite) and even moreso the AKG501s I own now.