tdockweiler
Headphoneus Supremus
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I am the owner of K601 and I have a question: how much warming affects headphones?, there is now a quiet volume, and a very weakbass. My K530 still play a brighter and louder. Do not pull theirsource? .. Infrasonic Quartet, built-in amplifier
Sounds like it could be under-amped. I googled that soundcard for a second and I don't know much about it. Looks like it has a decent build in headphone amplifier. Those are definite symptoms of it being under-ampled. They're not bass heavy headphones, but they do have more bass than the K702 I've found. More mid-bass too it felt like.
Do you have another amp or receiver you could try? You can get the E9 for just $115 and it would sound perfect out of them. Even more so than my Asgard (which didn't drive them well at all).
I'm loving these headphones right now. I watched "Human Planet" last night with them and they seem even more natural sounding than the K702. I even tried installed the K702 pads to them but didn't like them. It made the soundstage bigger, but it made everything more distant. I even tried the K601 pads on the K702, but it made them too bright?! Very strange.
Somehow these didn't even need burn-in to sound good.
$180 for these is a steal! Just needs a very powerful amp.