Any comments/review on the ATH-A100Ti?

[Hirsch]

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Originally posted by millerdog What company is the king of closed cans? AT!

<koff koff> A certain closed wooden headphone made by Sony is cause to challenge this conclusion

 

[dhwilkin]

Drool... the Ti and A9X series look so nice...

 

[pyrrhus]

I'm still looking for a set of 'phones for college. I almost placed an order for a pair of HD600s last week, but I just couldn't go through with it. I think the all-open design would let in/out too much noise.

Those A100Ti's are really tempting. I actually like the way the look, but the lack of feedback on the way they sound kinda worries me. Somebody give me some encouragement and tell me I won't be disappointed with them. Please.

 

[katsudon1]

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Originally posted by millerdog Hirsch, my nipples are getting hard, you teaser! OOOPS! My dog said that! Bad Miller! (yes he can type!) md

Miller, you dog is pretty funny (and horny too!). I suggest you better keep your eyes on him/her.

 

[katsudon1]

Damn you Hirsh. Why do you always have to seduce us into AT HPs. You are commissioned by AT or what?

Well, I would suggest you to use a solid state amp with it to bring out the best of these HPs.

 

[Magicthyse]

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Originally posted by Tweertinelle Girly shade of blue, you say? Interesting. Tell me, do you feel that Senn 600s are a more *virile* shade of blue, or does the answer involve wearing Equinox support? Do you regard the wooden surfaces of W100s as girly or buff? Which headphones do you feel best express your manly burly headphone-fetishizing nature? Beyerdynamics would seem sufficiently Aryan and chill, but then there's that whole Nazi drag on Polk Street scenario to content with. You know, I'm not certain I'd want my headphones to be too manly. You don't want that sort of thing touching the side of your face.

Nein. The HD600's are for girly princesses in a galaxy far away.

 

[radrd]

They don't look girly to me, but Magicthyse and I don't seem to agree on much, especially the value of aesthetics when it comes to selecting headphones.

(picture is from www.audiocubes.com where they also sell them)

 

[Magicthyse]

Er no, if you bothered to read my posts through then you'd probably agree more.

I drooled over the web pix, and they were the phones I wanted. Couldn't get them for some reason from my shop who were going to import them, so chose the ATH-A9X. The actual user's pix seemed very blue-weighted and a bit sparkly. Anodizing Ti a sparkly blue would be a cardinal sin. That's why I suspected a bad digicam...

 

[radrd]

My bad then.

 

[Nick Dangerous]

I'd like to hear a review of these cans. I did not like the W100 when I last tried them.

Shivohum is being gracious enough to loan me his W100's for this weekend's meeting. Last chance for the W100!

 

[The Quality Guru]

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Originally posted by Nick Dangerous Last chance for the W100!

Try some acoustic and steel string gutair on them and see what you think. But if you don't like them after hearing acoustic/steel string guitar on them, then that's cool too.

 

[Tweertinelle]

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Originally posted by Nick Dangerous I'd like to hear a review of these cans. I did not like the W100 when I last tried them.

I'd love to borrow a pair to review, since I never respected AT gear before and wasn't aware of AT's Japan-only high-end fare. I listen to and play most styles of music, being a broken-in studio ho, but what I prefer is IDM, dub and deep minimal techno for empty pleasure, and medieval and dissonant twentieth century classical music for complexity and depth. From the reviews I've read, the AT-w100 and ti100 are particularly suited to classical.

I've always wondered why people listen to full-on orchestras to judge a particular kind of headphone. Seems to me you can tell more about accuracy by listening to a single instrument: Christine Schaefer's a capella sprechstimmung in Pierrot Lunaire, for example, or your favorite cellist playing the scordatura sarabande from Bach Cello Suite No. 5 (cello is particularly good if you're checking digital depth in a recording, since every strike of the bow involves high and low attack transients).

But loaned ti100s aren't going to appear in my PO Box any time soon and, unfortunately, I don't happen to live in Dallas.

Also, I'm hesitant about buying expensive headphones without hearing them first. I don't really trust other people's opinions on headphones. With the ER 4P/S, I was able to go to the store with my own PCDP and A/B them with the ER 6 (no comparison, really).

Magicthyse: I was really hoping you'd respond to my questions by ennumerating the manly virtues of silver and why you gravitate toward that color with every headphone purchase (but go light on the teabagging references). What kind of truss-sporting funster are you, anyway? (Keep in mind I'm merely joshing, riffing, grendeling. These are the jokes or -- as your people refer to them -- brafs, toynbees, dinkle-phay-phays.)

 

[PianoBlack]

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Originally posted by Tweertinelle I'd love to borrow a pair to review

I think I can loan out my W100s, if you cover shipping costs. Strings sound amazing on this pair of cans.

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Originally posted by Tweertinelle What kind of truss-sporting funster are you, anyway? (Keep in mind I'm merely joshing, riffing, grendeling. These are the jokes or -- as your people refer to them -- brafs, toynbees, dinkle-phay-phays.)

Gosh. I think all literary writers should be banned from forums. And it has nothing to do with my inferiority complex at all.

Well, you've definitely had more than one person going "huh".

 

[The Quality Guru]

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Originally posted by PianoBlack I think I can loan out my W100s, if you cover shipping costs. Strings sound amazing on this pair of cans.

That's very generous of you, PianoBlack. If you do happen to begin to lend these out, I really think that you let some of the senior, long-time Head-Fiers like MacDEF, Jude, JMT, Joelongwood, etc. listen to them and let them review them; they have been doing this for a while and I'd really like to know what they and their critical ears have to say about these wooden beauties . . . I might even be willing to pay shipping so that they could listen to them -- if of course you would be willing to send them out, which, I know, could be risky. (Yeah, I know it's a very far-fetched idea!)

 

[PianoBlack]

Great idea, Quality Guru. I'll go start a new thread...