Well, I'm nothing more than a newbie high school student from Korea, and I bought an ATH-A500 last month.
Before the burn in I had a feeling that I didn't waste the money. A friend of mine owned a ATH-PRO500, and I liked that sound. A500 was WAY different from that, but it was still nice.
The real problem started just last week, when I was starting to notice a VERY strong emphasis on particular ....dunno how it's called.... consonant? sound? Sorry for my bad English; never been to an English speaking country
. What I want to say in Korean is 치찰음 and the dictionary says it's sibilant sound.
Well, a discription would be faster to understand
I mostly listen to rock, and when I hear any /ts/, /s/, or even /t/ sound it is emphasized too much, and I feel my eardrums are being cut with a knife or something. For example, in Time is Running out by Muse, it goes like "Our TSime is running out, our TSime is running out......" Every music has at least one part that has that sound, and it freaks me out. I started to prefer my UHP606 over this over-100-bucks headphone.
As I mentioned, I am nothing more than a typical high school student with a relatively good English for a non-native speaker, and my ears are not golden. Still, I want a solution for this problem. Anyone has the same problem? I think I've heard that the A700s had this problem too, I'm not sure. Currently using a Cowon S9
Before the burn in I had a feeling that I didn't waste the money. A friend of mine owned a ATH-PRO500, and I liked that sound. A500 was WAY different from that, but it was still nice.
The real problem started just last week, when I was starting to notice a VERY strong emphasis on particular ....dunno how it's called.... consonant? sound? Sorry for my bad English; never been to an English speaking country
Well, a discription would be faster to understand
I mostly listen to rock, and when I hear any /ts/, /s/, or even /t/ sound it is emphasized too much, and I feel my eardrums are being cut with a knife or something. For example, in Time is Running out by Muse, it goes like "Our TSime is running out, our TSime is running out......" Every music has at least one part that has that sound, and it freaks me out. I started to prefer my UHP606 over this over-100-bucks headphone.
As I mentioned, I am nothing more than a typical high school student with a relatively good English for a non-native speaker, and my ears are not golden. Still, I want a solution for this problem. Anyone has the same problem? I think I've heard that the A700s had this problem too, I'm not sure. Currently using a Cowon S9
