A question for anyone that has driven the TH900 balanced from this amp. Does the stage open up and sound less muddy and closed in than on single ended? I much prefer my TH900 on my cheaper Matrix M-Stage on single ended mode because the staging is wider and the bass more controlled. Or is the...

I bought a pair of Sapphire Blue MK2s as I love this shade of blue, so for me its an aesthetically more pleasing TH900 that brightens up my headphone shelf. In fact I enjoy looking at this headphone than I do listening to it, as it is really quite edgy and bright so far, reminding me of my Red...

Voicing my agreement with this view, I listened to both the HE 1000V2 and the Clear, while the Clear has a stronger bass impact, the HE1000V2 is much more vivid in the mid-range to treble regions and more accurately reflects the song, conveying subtleties and spacial cues and adjusting its...

$300 Canadian is a good price for these headphones, based on technical ability. This is the price the headphone should have been sold for.

Agreed, TH900 convey vitality, a sense of power and energy in the music while still having accurate acoustic timbre unlike many closed headphone which tend to play it safe by rolling off or shelving the highs, thus sounding compressed and ultimately, lifeless. These qualities are still preserved...

I'm not interested in your level of expertise, alleged or otherwise, only your reasoning for your claims regarding the TH900/Z1R bass. Months before the Z1R had measurements posted by several sites, I heard the Z1R bass as lacking the tightness, cleanliness and impact expected in sub-bass...

  You've said little of substance, aside from your assertion that the Z1R bass is not as dominant as the TH900 bass "by a pretty sizable difference", whats your reasoning or evidence for this?. There's no need to spare my feelings, I didn't join this thread posting sentiments that are clearly...

  The Sony Z1R is a bass-dominant headphone also, please don't pretend otherwise. Also, being a bassist doesn't mean that you aren't deaf. Don't take this for an insult, I like a lively debate and am not averse to being proven wrong, but shallow appeals to authority aren't going to win you this...

  Nice mini-review there. My conclusions after listening for a month aren't too dissimilar to yours, however I do have a lower opinion of the Sony Z1R than you have expressed, though that might be due to the differences in music we listen to. I also listen quite loud, about 90 db or over and...

Not necessarily fools, just deaf .  Its not like the Z1R is inferior in every aspect to the TH900, its just overall lower in capability on a technical level, and retails at a higher price tag, which I find offensive. The Z1R has arguably a more agreeable frequency response and a richer lower...

  Indeed, and the reason why the Z1R has quite mediocre bass for a £1700 headphone. Its sub-bass distortion is quite high. I suspect the magnet system is far too weak to control the 70mm transducer it possesses, resulting in a significantly weaker slam and tautness in the very lowest registers...

  I wasn't directly referring to you when talking about the Z1R praise, but more with the general perception that Z1R is superior or on the same level to the TH900. On the Schitt Rag (a very powerful 100W amp so no distortion due to lack of power there) the Sony has noticeable distortion which...

Yes, overrated, but much better than the Sony. Its a decent headphone and you can blow your money on many worse pairs. I do prefer the HD650 similarly to it, because it has a more natural mid-range without upper mid suckout. Elear is very dynamic and impactful sounding for an open headphone, but...

    I know I'm not the only one getting tired of the effusive praise being bestowed on the mediocre Sony flagship, but I'd like to challenge this perception anyway that the Sony is comparable to the TH900 in bass; after comparing them head to head for a month, the Sony is a joke in terms of...

First day listening to these, I have the TH900 as reference for closed-back flagship. So far, I've noticed they have noticeably less control and impact/ sense of air movement in the very lowest registers, easily seen on the Elderscrolls Skyrim OST main theme Dragonborn. Bigger soundstage in...