devouringone3
Headphoneus Supremus
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Thanks for the notes devouringone3. I don't wish for this to be taken the wrong way but I'm a little concerned about the amount of flowery language associated with the hp1k here. At the end of the day it's a vintage headphone that does what it does very well - as with any headphone there are trade-offs to getting a certain kind of sound. I don't think that what Purrin's brought up here is in any way a slight to hp1k owners/fans but rather an objective way of looking at the headphone, it's shortcomings, and a potential and thankfully reversible way to address those shortcomings.
In my view there's nothing wrong with what JG offers to hp1k owners at all, it's a very welcome service. I myself can't justify the cost unfortunately given that the headphones themselves cost as much as said service and in reality retailed for far below the cost of what the service costs today. The alternative here seems to be a great opportunity without the high cost.
Sorry for the flowery vocabulary, I was entering a subject a bit more abstract and I know I couldn't have dealt with it with more precise and exact terminology.
Okay at this point I believe we all agreed midrange shoutyness was a shortcoming .
I don't think there is anything wrong about the upgrade either, it is an exquisite service for an exceptional headphone, and the price you are asked to pay is another expression of the law of the diminishing returns.
I wouldn't go as far as to call this mod an alternative to the "i" upgrade. The latter is meant to refine the sound and the mod were talking about here is about dampening it... with some pleasing results and increased neutrality. Again I ask, is shoutyness a consequence of a more forward sound? Because according to pcf and to the guy who tried his HP1i, the upgrade by Joe brought the sound forward, which was an improvement to pcf, but not totally one for the guy of the table next to him at last year's Bay Area meet.
The lining with Dynamat (Creatology Foam) of Purrin could be a supplement to even the HP1000i as well, lol.
To Purrin.
Yes I indeed thought Beagle was more experienced with the HP1000 than you thought he was, even if he doesn't own a pair a the moment. Now that you've explained me you guys had already encountered, read one another, I surely understand better your reaction to what he said.
If you discover a magical trick that really helps the HP1k then I urge you to post it on Head-Fi. Myself I wouldn't do it expecting anything in return, or do it only if I have something to "give back" to the community, I would do it out of generosity.
I sit on the fence between collector and power-user like you which might be an extreme case of. This is also why I tried to defend Beagle in the first place. My HP2 is now my best headphone but I cycle through all of my headphones so they do remain in their box most of the time. Still I listen to my HP2 and enjoy it very much, in fact, it blasts me away every time. I have not perceived any displeasing midrange shoutyness, but I do find them a bit fatiguing for a reason I can't pinpoint because I'm far less sharp at critical listening (and then logging onto Head-Fi and describing the experience) than mostly all of you guys here. Still I'm now a HP1k owner and I can finally delve into your territory . And I can't read waterfall plots well yet, but if you tell me the second graph of the modified HP1k is closer to the way a perfect headphone should perform then I'll take it.
I'm talking about my own person here but I don't take as personal what is being exchanged here.
I think it's okay to improve even twenty year old untouched headphone. If you think less midrange shoutyness is an improvement then I will recommend your mod and try it for myself. I think what I did here was an attempt to control the balance of the conflict a bit...
I agree with what rhythmdevils just said, except for the attachment part. Some might be attached to it but me I think it's just that it is insulting to be suggested or implied ignorant: suggested by Purrin, who is the first one to make up such a point about "midrange shoutyness", among all those of which I've read reviews and impressions about the HP1k sound, and implied "overactively ignorant", by LFF.