Quote: I have no interest in hauling around my speakers at 100lbs each.  I meant to say that I have no interesting headphone-specific gear to bring, but that I could bring my digital source to the meet.

I don't really have any exciting headphone gear to bring at the moment as I am in a speakers only phase... (ha ha, speakers, phase, little audio humour there...) but if anyone else is going to be bringing some modern high-end digital sources (Ayre, Berkeley, Weiss, Meitner, that sort of...

Quote: For whatever it's worth, and I've been called a total moron for stating this... but I really did feel that the V2 Magnums continued to improve with bass-heavy, loud burn in past 400 hours... never experienced anything like it before with any other headphone, speaker, or electronics.  

  After being fairly convinced that the boomyness was mostly gone, I've been really digging deep to find albums and tracks where it's still a problem... a few have surfaced here and there...   But first... these are an INCREDIBLE pair of headphones for electronic music... the bass on...

It is my opinion that the V2, given sufficient LONG break-in, beats the V1 in clarity and detail... and sounds more "effortless" and "musical" while doing it.

Quote: I felt the same way for a long time... but now that the V2s seem to have stopped sounding different (after at least 600 hours of high volume techno torture...), I don't miss the V1s any longer... save for on really bass heavy albums--Walter Becker's _Circus Money_, or Air's...

"Congested" or "mushy" are not words I could use to describe the sound of the well broken in V2s....... even at absolutely outrageous volume, nothing seems to hurt for anything else.  They sound effortlessly capable...

A cool moment--just sat down and threw the V2s on and put on the last track from Plush's _More You Becomes You_, "The Sailor".  Upon hearing the first few chords from the piano, I had to check to make sure I had the sound routed to the headphones, not the Big Rig speaker system behind me. 

YES!  And they'll keep getting better! Quote:

Shawn--given my experience, 80 hours of hard burn in on these things isn't anywhere near enough....... hundreds is more like it!

I have trouble believing it, but the V2s continue to wake up and come alive for me with more and more burn in........ they are still a little too bassy, but everything else is becoming AMAZING.  Layers upon layers of effortless detail... while the V1s seemed to slap you in the face with detail...

I'm at around 275 hours of burn in on my V2s now.  Starting to seriously enjoy them.  Few good goosebump moments, which is a great sign!   However, Walter Becker's _Circus Money_ is still so boomy as to be unlistenable... this was AWESOME on the V1s, and is awesome on all my other setups...

Jury still out.  Right now it's still V1s for me, but I'm a detail freak and like my bass with zero flab/bloat.  V2s continue to improve...

About 150 hours of burning in with loud techno on my V2s now.  I'm able to sit down and actually do some serious listening now--on all but the bassiest material, they're becoming seriously enjoyable!  The one-note-bass effect is nearly eliminated.  I can see why Currawong likes them for jazz...

I am *not* a Sennheiser person, and my thoughts on the HD600s vs HD650s are the same as Uncle Erik's, Solude's, and Maxvla's.  I have never enjoyed listening to HD650s, but I have enjoyed listening to HD600s.

100 hours of loud techno on them now.  Before I put them on my head, I turned back on the EQ settings I was using 50 hours ago to make them bearable.  They sounded pretty light in the loafers, unlike before, when the low end cut made them rather nice... turned the EQ off and now kick drums and...

Got about 50 hours (of all my bassiest material on a repeat playlist at outrageous volume) on them now.  Haven't touched them in at least 36, and just put 'em on.  Tried a bunch of material and found a few things that didn't make me want to jettison them, which was impossible last time, so maybe...

I am finding the bass totally overbearing all the time, using bowls... I absolutely adored the Series Is, not sure why I chose to eff with perfection...........   Quote:

OK, great to hear!

The pair of RS1s in quesiton (Classic B serial #1059) I bought from a gentleman in Edmonton in January '06. I seem to recall this serial number indicaitng they were built around '01. I bought a RA1 as part of the same transaction, and it continues to function flawlessly. I bought a pair of...

Plugging the Magnums directly into the headphone output of my Eden Navigator bass preamp with the EQ set dead flat, being fed by a Spector NS5CRFM (onboard pre set flat), the low B (30.9hz) is no problem.

Just forming first impressions on only 4 hours of burn in or so, but so far these spank my RS1s...... will get into more detail later but am worried I'll prefer these to my SR-X Mk.III/Pros in the inevitable shootout. I had really low expectations but these things are very good...

I had the same theory, and tested with a few digital transports feeding an RME HDSPe AIO sound card through the S/PDIF coaxial interface, both with and without the Digital Lens in the picture. I ripped a track using EAC to a .wav file. I then used Cool Edit to record the same waveform from...

Necro-posting here to report that a local buddy and I are each running this same setup (him with a Pass Labs D1 DAC and me with a Sonic Frontiers SFD-2 Mk.III, with a D2D-1 in the mix as well upsampling to 24/96) with absolutely fabulous results. For me, the benchmark transport was a Levinson...

Sold my Pass D1.