Chiming in on SET, myself. A mids freak now using speaker rigs for my headphones, losing all interest in "headphone amps" currently. Addicting. Push Pull with my horns. Pushing at 19 tubes glowing around the house at the moment (there's an endless thread starter), and have just kinda begun...

Quote: Okay for an evil genius...now you have to add the UADW to your creation signature. Been their all the time, Bluts! I effectionately call it "The Dragonwoo". It is a hybrid "Ponywoo" build, for I prefer my own cable builds that cost more than the headphones themselves for my own...

The Bluts says, Quote: BTW, geez guys, don't loose lips have an adverse effect on vessels? What?! Wasn't I was just talking about some odd, innocent, IC cables I sent to Colorado? You guys are starting to scare me... Nope. I'm ok. (The lemmings are still headed in the...

Quote: Originally Posted by HeadphoneAddict Heh, I wasn't sure you wanted to let that "cat out of the bag" so I didn't say whose Frankenstein's monster creation the PF-325 were. Besides, I wanted you all to myself should you ever decide to concoct another miracle in headphone...

Hey HeadphoneManiac and Bluetoasty!!! Glad to hear some Pendles-Handiwork is finding its way to menace your mini-meets. Or, like Beevis and Butt-Head, did you guys just make up that headphone to prank all of head-fi international? "Pf-whoody-whatie?" "You guys can't do that!!!" "Who do...

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Quote: Originally Posted by dcstep Wow, that's serious. Are you a designer or afficianado? Dave "A Nutcase", I think would more than describe it. Larry of headphile gets a large portion of the credit. Love him or hate him, he is great for head-fi. I described to him my hearing...

Quote: Originally Posted by dcstep When it comes to live performance, I'm in both camps. For acoustic it's definitely live, in person. For funk/rock/soul it's live if I'm dancing or performing, but in rock/pop concerts I prefer recordings. The reason I perfer recordings is that the...

Quote: Originally Posted by dcstep That's very old news. I'm waiting to hear about a HP that's superior in impact, imaging and emotion. Dave Quote: Quote: Originally Posted by pendles Some folk have $2500 headphones. Headphones fair pretty well if it takes...

Quote: Originally Posted by 883dave I prefer speakers, however at work it is impractical for me to bring speakers so I use headphones Last year I gave my headphones a listen to vinyl through the pre-amp at home, to hear how much difference there was through a better system. I sat down...

Quote: My theory is that they fill in the blanks in their heads. They're more interested than the performance than the sonics. No speaker or HPs can ever duplicate the experience of sitting next to 8 double basses in a double-orchestra or leaning against the wall housing the 32' pipes of a...

Quote: Originally Posted by dcstep Strange indeed, you demand equipment lists and credentials and then criticize those credentials. I didn't mean to threaten your audiophilia. Dave No demands at all. According to one's own posts, the question of illustrating the differeces in...

Quote: Remember that, master? You coming off as if you think you "own" this thread. You merely started it I think if I would have left the Word "Challenge" out of the title, the thread would have gotten off to a more civil start and attracted less often contesting banter. Since...

Quote: Well speakers are better in just about every way. The only thing I find better with headphones is detail. Some of the detail is lost in the air between me and my speakers. Great stuff! The devil is in the detail. Quote: Many many speakers in the $3,000 range will out...

DCstep Quote: But I'll answer your question....Paradigm $1500 studio monitors vs. $34 Koss Portapros headphones. This is where the birthing of the $2500 headphone idea was needed... Ther is a 44X $difference in the cost of these compared items. I own a few of those headphonnes you...

Quote: No secret in my case, I'm listening to AKG K701s, UE Super.fi 5 Pros and UE Triple.fi 10 Pros. I retired my Stax a while back after two rebuilds. The current HPs are driven by a Woo Audio WA6, fed by Pro-ject RM10/Sumiko Blackbird combination and a modded Oppo Universal player. When...

Quote: But I'll answer your question....Paradigm $1500 studio monitors vs. $34 Koss Portapros headphones. The winner(I would say) is the paradigms and even somebody who truly enjoys the portapros could make an argument. Maybe this example will show you how ridiculous the question really is...

Quote: I vote for most pointless thread of the year! lol You've got a fun point there. On the other hand, the beginning arguments against this posting were entirely against your train of thought... They were more in the vain that this topic has been posted and discussed so many...

Read s l o w... Quote: So... what speakers beat what headphones EVERY TIME? Surely they exist... Here, I'll help... So... WHAT SPEAKERS beat WHAT HEADPHONES every time. Do these beaten headphones, every time, have a name we would recognize? I am not opposed to any arguments...

Quote: Speakers are just as intimate as cans. But can you wear speakers? No, of course speakers and headphones cannot be reduced to just sexiness or symphonies. But neither can sexiness or symphonies be reduced to just speakers or headphones. So... what speakers beat what...

The end result of the speaker vs headphone challenge seems to be that we buy speakers for symphonies and headphones for de sexy voices. So, when head-fiers are shallow, we buy headphones. When we are sophisticated, we buy speakers. New challenge... A)Do you prefer "sexy" or "symphonies"...

Quote: My speakers just smoked my headphones for that on stage Aretha Franklin feeling. So Life-like! Less like Memorex, more like a concert... The guy above is nuts!! I'm listening to Aretha on my closed re-re-modded HP3000 and she Smokes speakers on a nice headphone set up. Nothing...

Oh, de lobe, de lobe... Just feeling de luv My speakers just smoked my headphones for that on stage Aretha Franklin feeling. So Life-like! Less like Memorex, more like a concert... Yup, wish I had headphones when I was in college! I had both a motorcycle and a vehicle when I was in...

Quote: This thread is a riot. That's the spirit... I think somebody might be onto me, ha ~President of the Overactors Guild Quote: There's nothing like listening to a symphony on speakers, and there's nothing like listening to a sexy female vocal on headphones. Concisely...

Quote: Yesterday, 07:12 PM #1 (permalink) J-Pak Headphoneus Supremus ProfileJoin Date: Nov 2004 Location: NH, USA Posts: 3,993 FS: Audio Technica L3000 (excellent condition, no mods) Up for sale are my Audio Technica ATH-L3000 headphones...