The best thing the z1000 has done for me is teaching me that mids can be a good thing. Must be years of having bad cans and EQ'ing them with a V shape, but these babies make the midranges pleasant - ergo, beautiful vocals.

It might be but it will be November until then lol. The z1000 is a perfect balance between musicality and critical listening, by the description the 1r might go in the musical/colored direction. Definitely looks exciting though and it's tempting to preorder. If its anything like the z1k it will...

Just got the z1000s, love them. A TAD light on the bass but I'm starting to see that's how the music is meant to sound, so it's a natural bass. If I'm listening to a song with a double bass, its going to have some punch, bass kicks also have a nice push to them. The difference is that there's no...

This is half a joke post, half a PSA. I haven't seen either on the IE80 here (just the IE8) so I figured this might be useful due to how rampant these are. I bought these off Amazon for 350.00, knowing that if they were fakes they had a guarantee for items that are mislabeled. No surprise, they...

Why aren't Phonak Audeo PFEs on this chart?

I've been holding off from posting my own W1000x porn but these shots are lovely.   What most people see as deficiencies in it are what I love about it the most (though someone thought the mids were forward, what the heck?!). These are simply one of the best classical, jazz, acoustic and...

Quote: Originally Posted by jcoops16 Nice link. I have been trying to find infomation on all the past W series headphones for a while now with no luck, so thanks for that Weird they haven't put the W1000x that I'm wearing on my head at this moment on that lineup.

I own both the SR225 and a few IEMs. Phonak PFE + Gray Filters are the closest Grado in-your-face and lush mids I've heard out of the UM3x and TF10. When I do an a/b test the biggest difference with the grado is the "airiness" that comes from it being open-air.

Welcome to head-fi but under 300.00 isn't going to be in the "big high end purchase" in the full-size headphone arena. If you do buy a decent pair of cans in the 400-1000$ mark you will then need to buy a decent amplifier on top of that to drive those cans properly. Its a rewarding experience...

He is a 100% rated seller, you have very little worry about. What else is there to say? There are no pictures to judge it by or anything like that. IF anything you paid a little bit more than you had to so there is no "too good to be true" factor. You did use the bing.com 8% off cashback right?

You won't really be upgrading unless you go for something like the JH13's, everything else is just a horizontal acquisition. All of the top-tier IEMs just sound "different." Personally, I like the Phonak PFEs for complex classical recordings. My biggest gripes with the "classical" phones...

Quote: Originally Posted by jtsai Last night I found the reason why these sounded so off to me -- the polarity of my cables was reversed the entire time. Taught me to be wary of posts that tell people the "right way" to align the cables for earphones with detachable cables. Soundstage...

Quote: Originally Posted by Pianist ++ The best IEM for under $100-$150 on the market today. You can get Phonak PFE or Sennheiser IE series bendable earhooks to make them more comfortable to wear over the ear. Stretch that ten more dollars and the PFE takes over that category ...

Quote: Originally Posted by grokit The Matrix Mini DAC/headamp has pretty good synergy with the HD600s IME This is why I love head-fi. Thank you for this link! I've been searching all week for a good desktop DAC/Amp for less than $500. I am heavily considering this beauty. The...

I'll throw in the Phonak PFEs. One of the most versatile IEMs in my opinion, I haven't tried any that can do Jazz/Classical well and also do Rock or Trance. The sound is refined enough that its as good as the 300 dollar IEMs (had the UM3x and TF10 to compare to) and according to your preference...