Recent content by rocksteady65

Hmm. What's a Val-Hal? 🤔

"650/6xx just pisses bass on everything. At least the 650 I had did." 😁😅😂 No disagreement there. I see a trend developing in here...😏

Hello there. Truthfully, I didn’t realise that your post was that old, as I had merely noticed the very last post, dated yesterday. While I don’t want to knock your personal experience with the HD 600, your reply reads as if you are another person altogether from the one who wrote those posts...

Totally in agreement regarding the HD600/HD650. The latter, in particular, is an utterly Mediocre, not truly Hi-Fi design, and my mind boggles as to why it ever gained such a Cult status. I think Cult describes it accurately...

That's interesting. Your assessment of the Treble response is completely at odds with most subjective, and not so subjective, reviews, such as on Headphones.com or Reddit. Either there are sample variances or different people do indeed hear the same things VERY differently...🤔🧐

Totally absurd pricing.There are similar, far cheaper alternatives on AliExpress, and I'm certain of similar quality...

Well, both the HE-6SE and the Susvara have quite a bit higher nominal Impedance at ~ 60 Ohm. But in my view and experience, their famed Power Hungry reputation is somewhat exaggerated. I have successfully driven the HE-6SE with a SE Violectric V100 Amp, with plenty of power and dynamics, at its...

Realistically, who needs 8w at 32 Ohm? Especially when Low Impedance, High Sensitivity headphones are almost the norm nowadays. The K19 is only substantially more powerful at 32 Ohm, and on High impedances the difference to the K17 is marginal. Interestingly, the latter is capable of slightly...

Is that a Zen Dac 2?

I'm really interested in this, but I don't quite like the Bronze accents. Do you plan to offer an alternative, more sobber finish, such as nickel/silver?

+1!

That makes no sense. Coaxial is for the transmission of Musical Data to a DAC, and the replay of such Data. It was never intended or designed for Ripping. 🤔

"Given the lower ohms I was concerned it would be hard to drive -- I found the opposite -- the 490 is about 5db louder than the 650." It's rather strange to me that you had this expectation. 130 Ohm is by no means Low in absolute terms, and even a load around 32 Ohm usually generates a much...