Deathsnapper
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Hey, I'm considering getting a new pair of headphones and would like some advice. First I'll give a bit of background relating to the decision.
I recently got my first pair of decent headphones; about 3-4 weeks ago the pair of SR60's I ordered a couple months arrived! They were actually the newer SR60i models, not that I would know the difference at this point aside from the physical build structure. Anyways, right now I've clocked about 120ish hours on them. I really like these headphones, but I've decided I want to try to get something that sounds different for my next pair; I'm most interested in a very large sound stage.
I listen to a bit of many genres, typically I listen to classical, jazz, fusion, metal, rock, blues, shred guitar/instrumental rock, and stuff that fits in/around this area of music. Though occasionally I'll listen to somewhat electronica music (i.e. Ratatat, etc.). I would also be using these headphones for gaming, but I'm not too picky (hey, I'm dealing with the SR60 sound stage for gaming right now!
).
For this pair of headphones I wanted to get something that fits more into the jazz/classical genres. As I mentioned I'd like a large sound stage. Bass isn't really all that important to me; I keep reading things about the SR60s lacking bass, but to me they seem pretty much where I like it, a small bit more would be nice though. All of my music is ripped to FLAC (from my own CDs, so I know the rips are good
) and I play it directly through my computer's output (my sound card is a creative x-fi titanium), so for the time I don't have any external amps/DACs; maybe in the future, but not for a while.
I'm also a currently-unemployed university student. So money is very short and any money saved really helps.
Having said all that is it worth getting the AD500s, or would it be better just to pay the extra for the AD700s? I've done a lot of searching through the forums and haven't found many people comparing them, but it seems the difference in sound quality is fairly small between the two pairs. Has anyone compared the two burned in side by side? I would really like to know how big of a gap there is between the two.
Thanks for reading!
~Dylan
I recently got my first pair of decent headphones; about 3-4 weeks ago the pair of SR60's I ordered a couple months arrived! They were actually the newer SR60i models, not that I would know the difference at this point aside from the physical build structure. Anyways, right now I've clocked about 120ish hours on them. I really like these headphones, but I've decided I want to try to get something that sounds different for my next pair; I'm most interested in a very large sound stage.
I listen to a bit of many genres, typically I listen to classical, jazz, fusion, metal, rock, blues, shred guitar/instrumental rock, and stuff that fits in/around this area of music. Though occasionally I'll listen to somewhat electronica music (i.e. Ratatat, etc.). I would also be using these headphones for gaming, but I'm not too picky (hey, I'm dealing with the SR60 sound stage for gaming right now!
For this pair of headphones I wanted to get something that fits more into the jazz/classical genres. As I mentioned I'd like a large sound stage. Bass isn't really all that important to me; I keep reading things about the SR60s lacking bass, but to me they seem pretty much where I like it, a small bit more would be nice though. All of my music is ripped to FLAC (from my own CDs, so I know the rips are good
I'm also a currently-unemployed university student. So money is very short and any money saved really helps.
Having said all that is it worth getting the AD500s, or would it be better just to pay the extra for the AD700s? I've done a lot of searching through the forums and haven't found many people comparing them, but it seems the difference in sound quality is fairly small between the two pairs. Has anyone compared the two burned in side by side? I would really like to know how big of a gap there is between the two.
Thanks for reading!
~Dylan