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  1. Evshrug

    AXEL GRELL HEADPHONE

    Music listening notes (with Apogee Groove dongle DAC and Apple Music Hi Res) added via edit: https://www.head-fi.org/showcase/drop-grell-oae1-signature-headphones.27216/review/33836/
  2. Evshrug

    Reply to review by 'Evshrug' on item 'Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones'

    @Trinkle I don't feel like it's less detailed. It's really detailed! Sometimes it does seem like male vocals are less forward than female ones. I didn't notice much till 2am tonight though, so my fatigue may be a factor. I also didn't notice till I saw the graph... interesting.
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  3. Evshrug

    AXEL GRELL HEADPHONE

    Best of luck! I was ready to use my credit card… but I just received an unexpected expense, gotta love ‘em Whether you were joking or not, I honestly do think some people will/have already. But, it’s a good reminder that I meant to describe what that sounds like in my review. Here’s my notes...
  4. Evshrug

    AXEL GRELL HEADPHONE

    “I’m convinced the headphone is out of phase!” Like I said in my review… just looking at the cups it’s not immediately obvious. But looking through the grill, or inside the pad opening, you can see the driver and should know it’s towards the front. But people put the HD 800 on backwards all...
  5. Evshrug

    AXEL GRELL HEADPHONE

    I prefer velour too!
  6. Evshrug

    Reply to review by 'Evshrug' on item 'Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones'

    @Shane D It’s hard to think about what somebody else won’t like when I do like something… I have to think about things people didn’t like about similar parts in other headphones, like the upper mids in the HD 650, but it’s still blended into the mix of many freqs & instruments playing at once...
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  7. Evshrug

    AXEL GRELL HEADPHONE

    Yeah, my listening notes were a massive wall of jumbled thoughts, I’m going to try to cut to the chase. But I’ve been staying up late recently, and frankly after I made dinner I had to fall asleep. That happened tonight too, woke up now but I’ve got a headache. I’ll post a notification in this...
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    Reply to review by 'Evshrug' on item 'Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones'

    @Trinkle my very first impression I had it hooked up to my PS5 because that’s what was already set up in front of me, with Creative G5 as DAC and a line out to my Cavalli Liquid Carbon as amp. I hadn’t noticed the G5’s EQ was on and it had a pretty colored V-shaped boost on, obviously the result...
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  9. Evshrug

    AXEL GRELL HEADPHONE

    outer diameter about 10cm, inner diameter about 5.5cm, at least according to the middle of my tape measure. I left my calipers at my day job, someone else will need them to make eyeglasses properly! According to Axel, who I also count as an expert, the physical attributes of the sound waves DO...
  10. Evshrug

    AXEL GRELL HEADPHONE

    Apparently they're going to refund shipping, even international shipping, so that's cool! TAX (including Value Added Tax) will still apply though... gotta pay Caesar his due! I posted my review, I'm going to be adding in a condensed version of my listening notes and gear comparisons throughout...
  11. Evshrug

    Review by 'Evshrug' on item 'Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones'

    The grell OAE1 was not what I was expecting. At first, when news that Axel Grell was making an analog, open back wired headphone, I thought it was squarely within his wheelhouse, the perfect move to show what grell is best at. But the show impressions on prototypes started trickling in, and it...
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  12. Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones

    Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones

    SPECS Headphones Drop + grell Headphone type: Open-back Ear coupling: Over-ear Drivers: Biocellulose dynamic drivers Sound characteristic: Front oriented diffuse field equalization Adaption to the individual hearing curve: Soundfield pinna interaction Nominal impedance: 38 ohms Frequency...
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    • bass comfortable grell open soundstage
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    • Category: Over-Ear
  13. Evshrug

    AXEL GRELL HEADPHONE

    (Tonight is probably going to be a very late night. So was yesterday 😂)
  14. Evshrug

    AXEL GRELL HEADPHONE

    I think there’s room for both to coexist. I’ve been hoping for a closed-back HD 660S for years!! The HD 620 is a very different product serving a different use case, I feel. Closed back headphones will sound better than open backed ones in environments with distracting background noise, and...
  15. Evshrug

    AXEL GRELL HEADPHONE

    I’m trying to get my review done tonight. Just got off work.
  16. Evshrug

    AXEL GRELL HEADPHONE

    Could mean a couple things. Could mean first batch is 1k, could mean “signature” is limited to 1k, etc.
  17. Evshrug

    AXEL GRELL HEADPHONE

    I believe it’s actually the opposite… planar drivers don’t have as much excursion, so they have to be relatively larger than dynamic driver types in order to create equivalent air displacement. If you had a dynamic and planar driver of equal size and same enclosure, it’s the planar that would...
  18. Evshrug

    AXEL GRELL HEADPHONE

    Yeah… if I find an IEM uncomfortable, it’s immediately dead in the water for me. And I’ve tried dozens of IEMs but none have ever truly felt comfortable or disappeared, merely some felt tolerable. I do appreciate that they’re easier to take on the go, and wireless ones are like an adapter where...
  19. Evshrug

    AXEL GRELL HEADPHONE

    Good thing is I can assure you it sounds drastically different from any IEM. I’m a fan of the build quality: they managed to do metal (aluminum or magnesium? 🤷‍♂️) in such a way that it’s still lightweight, but it looks sleek and doesn’t creak. I also appreciate the design touches for replacing...
  20. Evshrug

    Official Unofficial 8XX Discussion Thread - UPDATE SENNHEISER HAS BEEN SOLD!!! GT(heck)IH

    Aaand that’s a DAC/amp… I don’t really need another DAC/amp, buuuut I used to have the OG Mojo and it sounded really good to me.
  21. Evshrug

    AXEL GRELL HEADPHONE

    Ok, stream of consciousness notes time, featuring Anaconda by Strunz & Farah. First off, the YouTube compression is obvious. I know you shared it that way because I know from @Currawong ‘s server that you are the penultimate nice guy, and you wanted me and everyone else to be able to hear this...
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    Official Unofficial 8XX Discussion Thread - UPDATE SENNHEISER HAS BEEN SOLD!!! GT(heck)IH

    Is there any device that offers both crossfeed and EQ, that isn’t pc software? Sort of like a Schiit Loki + Syn, as an all-in-one.
  23. Evshrug

    AXEL GRELL HEADPHONE

    I hear you… I didn’t get to go to any CanJams until I randomly decided I had enough money to fly from Pennsylvania to the Denver Colorado RMAF CanJam and share a hotel room with a friend. Before that, I had spent 7 years just lurking and talking on Head-Fi, but after that trip suddenly I had a...
  24. Evshrug

    AXEL GRELL HEADPHONE

    I don’t think any other amp in your collection sounds like it. Would be an awesome to hear it on your Woo Audio WA22!! Got a song request that I should test?
  25. Evshrug

    AXEL GRELL HEADPHONE

    I agree, the HD 800S bass is a complex subject. I think I mentioned a little about it earlier, but there’s so much stigma around it being a bright and airy headphone that I was shocked when I actually heard it for the first time (“Diamonds on the Souls of her Shoes” by Paul Simon), and felt the...
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