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Stock HD800 bass is tighter, more articulate and explosive. It takes EQ better as Tyll rightly concluded, so has a greater range of adjustment for taste.
Stock HD800 bass is tighter, more articulate and explosive. It takes EQ better as Tyll rightly concluded, so has a greater range of adjustment for taste.
Stock HD800 bass is tighter, more articulate and explosive. It takes EQ better as Tyll rightly concluded, so has a greater range of adjustment for taste.
Ha! No, you just wouldn't want to read my crap before I've edited it a half dozen times. And I don't like not having a weekend, but hey, that's the way it goes sometimes.
Video is uploading now. Text is done, one last read through and links to the vids. Like Dharma says, about an hour.
So in a nutshell, they measure worse but sound better. I'll take that tradeoff every time.
Thank you Tyll for the obvious effort that went into this review.
Nutshells are only useful if they retain the wheat entirely and discard the chaff of the review. The phrase "they measure worse but sound better" has failed to retain the important disclaimer "worse than what?"
His review made clear that he prefers the HD800 S to the stock HD800 only if the latter is not EQ'd and/or modded with the Super Depont Resonator. If you don't want to mod or EQ, go for the HD800 S, according to his preferences; otherwise, the latter measures better (to his ears) and sounds more pure because it still tames most of the 6 khz spike (within 3 dB) while retaining an undistorted bass response.
You and I clearly took very different things away from this review. Which is great.
Happy listening.
I just read what he wrote carefully. He prefers the HD800 S to the stock HD800 but even more prefers the resonator-modded (not the Anax modded) HD800 to the HD800 S. If you don't want to bother with modding, go with the HD800S, "in a nutshell." I think you must have a fantastic amp, by the way, for the HD800, assuming you still own the EC Super 7.
It also says that the damping mod is less precise and comes at the cost of attenuating other frequencies, unlike the narrow-band resonator of the S.
It also says that the damping mod is less precise and comes at the cost of attenuating other frequencies, unlike the narrow-band resonator of the S.