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my DF's and sextetts sound similar to one another in most ways but DF's has a bit quicker/cleaner treble. i have to compare again later on to conform it. i been using my balanced sextetts lp's lately cause i had them stored away in their original box for months and decided to pull them out yesterday.i have them hooked up directly to the speaker outs of my serviced 1980's H/K 770 dual-mono power amp(with matching H/K 725 preamp) and my balanced Echo audiofire 2 interface as always my main source and never remember my sextetts sounding this good before. still floored me with their midrange tonality and love how overall they're tuned. super tight bass,well extended treble with plenty of air and a gorgeous midrange. the imaging is top notch too with correct bass dispersion similar to speakers in a ''dead'' sounding room(of course not as good/resolving as speakers though). surprisingly they're pretty resolving with good detail extraction and can easily pick up reverb tails in the air,effects/limiting used in bass kicks,ect. they actual do it pretty well.
i have to say though the DF's and sextetts are one of the few headphones i used and owned to find them being very chameleon like as good all-rounder(in my opinion and matter of preference of course) in most cases even though they're not in any way the best measuring headphones at all objectively. they just have that magic somewhere i can't put my finger on.
Thanks for the reply. I missed this one until today. I've been listening to my Sextett LP alot lately. It sounds very, very good. Almost addicting due to it's mids. I've actually found it not that difficult to drive at all. I mean, with this headphone, as long as it gets enough volume it always seems to sound good. With my Q701 if it gets enough volume, it can still sound bad.
I've actually found they sound quite good from my 3-5 years old Onkyo receiver. I went to Goodwill and found a full sized JVC CD player from 1996 with a headphone jack and i'm shocked that it can drive the 600 ohm Sextett amazingly well. What the heck?! It however makes the Q701 and K601 sound really bad. HD-600 and the KRK KNS_8400 are pretty good from it. With my DJ100, it recesses the mids somewhat, which is strange. Output impedance is probably too high.
So what's everyone's favorite thing about these other than the mids? I think for me it's the imaging and how accurate the soundstage is. It's not huge (with the correct tracks) but pretty good still. I've found it's even better than the HD-600. I actually don't find my pair on any amp/source to be really that neutral. It's mids are actually more forward than my DJ100. When I compared both, female vocals were much more forward on the Sextett. It could be that's how it was recorded and the Sextett is more accurate. Possibly. Hard to say if there is any change due to the Mogami recable I did. Probably not enough to make it's mids more forward.
Worst thing about them is that the bass is good, but a bit lacking in some areas. Not a big deal for me. Not much sub-bass, but no big deal. What's funny is that at first they had bloated bass. I don't know how that happened! Some weird amping/dac issue going on there.
Does anyone else love these for female vocals? I sure do. They might be in my top 3 now for that. It's so bizarre that these things sat in my closest and hated by them and all this time I had issues with what I was connecting them to. Weird.
I think these have nearly as much detail as my KRK KNS-8400! I think they can go head to head with my DJ100, K601 and KRK KNS-8400. K601 does a few things much worse, but I still love it. It sure does seem that these are a little less picky about amping than my Q701.
BTW does anyone know offhand how the signature compares to the Beyerdynamic DT-48e? Probably not similar in any way. I've heard the DT-48e has some amazing mids. I want to try one out sometime, but new they're still $399. yikes!
So, looks like this Sextett LP might be in my top 5 soon. Too bad my original screw and logo is missing
Might hunt down the DF sometime..I think i'd be even happy with even MORE treble. Just a tiny bit more.