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New Head-Fier
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Yeah right. Good luck. You are lucky to pay $200/pr for a lottery ticket to a decent pair.
"There's a sucker born every minute" is the phrase attributed to P. T. Barnum. Apparently there is no evidence he actually said it.
I however have read the entire thread and appreciate the knowledge and advice given here.
I am breaking in some HD700 Sennheiser headphones connected to a new Valhalla 2 that I am also breaking in. The Valhalla 2 came with Voskhod's with 75 on the front. I will see if the best of my iPhone pics is worth posting. The Valhalla 2 has about 120 hours on it and the HD700s have maybe 200 hours on them. Since the Valhalla 2 arrived they have been on together only a bit less that 24x7. The issues are too much bite to horns,etc., lower to mid treble peak, and weaker bass than I would prefer. Also, I am getting a sharp edge to the treble some of the time which is noticeable on cymbals. Source is mainly 2010 MacBook Pro 17" i7 (maxxed out with SSD added internally) running MacOS Sierra playing Tidal HiFi and other streams to a Meridian Explorer2 USB DAC to the Valhalla 2 via Monster's lowend 3/8 to rca's cable that is connected to the line ins on the back of the Valhalla 2.
I don't want to loose the high end as I am someone who listened to loud rock during his youth and am enjoying hearing mostly all the cymbal work in the better Jazz recordings. I would like smooth the upper mids and lower treble and add some additional weight to the bottom end. Any ideas?
Overall I am enjoying the system. By the way, the Explorer2 sounds surprisingly good feeding the main HiFi. And you folks should hear MQA. Take it from an analog guy.
Thanks to RB2013 for starting this informative thread.
Y'all take care,
Robert A. Ober