Dom82
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Hallo to everyone,
I've decided to write again about Panasonic htf600 after the the burning time.
I want elucidate you about these headphones.
I use them with Ipod shuffle 4gen + Fiio E6 (without bass boost) and with Kenwood Ka8100 dual mono + Cambridge Audio Azur 340c.
I prefer my Hi-fi but the Ipod + fiio E6 is not a bad setup.
The sound is not stressful.Never!It's warm but not dark. Obviously it depends on the recording quality. I usually use for listening test:
On every street - Dire straits
Back in black - AC/DC
Unplugged - Eric Clapton
1812 - Tchaikovsky
Step - Pat Coil
Morph the cat - Donald Fagen
With these albums I've never felt Pans sounding dark. Both with Hi-fi and Ipod.
Highs are rounded and sweet.
These headphones are not airy and detailed as Superlux HD668b but the stereo effect and the reverb are very good. HD668b could be also fatiguing for long listening especially if they are plug into a cold source. HD668b need for a bass-boost!
However with Pans you can feel clearly the place in wich artists are playing and the distance between instruments.
The soundstage is good but not too big as HD668b.
I would like to clarify that HD668b are great headphones for the price but I prefer them for classical music and jazz because acoustic
instruments are reproduced by Superlux with great detail, clarity and with a correct dimension.
In fact electric basses and electric guitars are more big,warm and full then in HD668b. Pans are really good for rock and electronic
music but they are very good also for jazz.
Mids are very well represented when the recording is not V shape!They are warm and very well balanced with trebles.
String instruments both acoustics and electrics and snare drums are really good and clear.
Now I must tell you about "the bone of contention" of these headphones: The Bass
Someone says that the bass is exaggerated, someone that it is ok.
Sensation that I've felt is that these Pans have very correct basses and really coherent with the recording.
Basses are really rocky, solid and precise, better than a subwoofer beacuse the subwoofer is often boomy.
Basses enter in action when it's necessary and mid-basses are not overlying and rumbling.
This is my opinion because I'm a semi-basshead. I like rocky and precise basses!
Unfortunately I must say at the end that Pans are not Hi-End headphones because they have solid basses and they are a little bit lack in micro details that characterize more expensive headphones in the market but I mean headphones costing 500€ and more!!
These pans can fight against headphones costing between 5 and 10 times their price!
The same is true also for Superlux HD668b!!
About the basses the problem is that today Hi-End means NO BASS but this is a wrong rule! This is also the instrument for famous brands to produce with low costs LOW-END headphones without basses and marketing them as Hi-end headphones.
Basses are the rythm of the music and it's not necessary spending a fortune to listen also flies in the recording thinking to make an Hi-End listening!
Good listening to everyone
Domenico from Italy
I've decided to write again about Panasonic htf600 after the the burning time.
I want elucidate you about these headphones.
I use them with Ipod shuffle 4gen + Fiio E6 (without bass boost) and with Kenwood Ka8100 dual mono + Cambridge Audio Azur 340c.
I prefer my Hi-fi but the Ipod + fiio E6 is not a bad setup.
The sound is not stressful.Never!It's warm but not dark. Obviously it depends on the recording quality. I usually use for listening test:
On every street - Dire straits
Back in black - AC/DC
Unplugged - Eric Clapton
1812 - Tchaikovsky
Step - Pat Coil
Morph the cat - Donald Fagen
With these albums I've never felt Pans sounding dark. Both with Hi-fi and Ipod.
Highs are rounded and sweet.
These headphones are not airy and detailed as Superlux HD668b but the stereo effect and the reverb are very good. HD668b could be also fatiguing for long listening especially if they are plug into a cold source. HD668b need for a bass-boost!
However with Pans you can feel clearly the place in wich artists are playing and the distance between instruments.
The soundstage is good but not too big as HD668b.
I would like to clarify that HD668b are great headphones for the price but I prefer them for classical music and jazz because acoustic
instruments are reproduced by Superlux with great detail, clarity and with a correct dimension.
In fact electric basses and electric guitars are more big,warm and full then in HD668b. Pans are really good for rock and electronic
music but they are very good also for jazz.
Mids are very well represented when the recording is not V shape!They are warm and very well balanced with trebles.
String instruments both acoustics and electrics and snare drums are really good and clear.
Now I must tell you about "the bone of contention" of these headphones: The Bass
Someone says that the bass is exaggerated, someone that it is ok.
Sensation that I've felt is that these Pans have very correct basses and really coherent with the recording.
Basses are really rocky, solid and precise, better than a subwoofer beacuse the subwoofer is often boomy.
Basses enter in action when it's necessary and mid-basses are not overlying and rumbling.
This is my opinion because I'm a semi-basshead. I like rocky and precise basses!
Unfortunately I must say at the end that Pans are not Hi-End headphones because they have solid basses and they are a little bit lack in micro details that characterize more expensive headphones in the market but I mean headphones costing 500€ and more!!
These pans can fight against headphones costing between 5 and 10 times their price!
The same is true also for Superlux HD668b!!
About the basses the problem is that today Hi-End means NO BASS but this is a wrong rule! This is also the instrument for famous brands to produce with low costs LOW-END headphones without basses and marketing them as Hi-end headphones.
Basses are the rythm of the music and it's not necessary spending a fortune to listen also flies in the recording thinking to make an Hi-End listening!
Good listening to everyone
Domenico from Italy
