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Originally Posted by walkman666
There are quite a few who knock the W1000s and it's interesting to read a more favorable assessment. Can you please elaborate on some examples of the right company? I am curious as to what would make the W1000s rock.
thx, - walkman
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Walkman, I was really just having fun with bangraman, and trying to point out that not all accountants are serious and boring. I hadn't given too much thought to which systems the W1000's perform best in.
To be honest, I've owned my W1000's and W100's for about 2 years now and have never given either one of them as much time and attention as they deserve, but the same goes for the HD600's, DT880's and CD3000's. I'll typically listen to one CD with any of these phones, and then go right back to the R10's or whatever. So although I know them better than people who bump into them for 5 or 10 minutes under head-fi "meet" conditions, I still don't know them (as bangraman said) like someone who has lived with them for a long time.
But having said that, while I do think they're pretty decent headphones, I'd have to agree that I generally prefer the W100's more (which have a sweeter midrange, very alluring in fact) and the CD3000's as well which have a much wider soundstage and an overall more lively presentation. In fact, I don't really take issue with bangraman's description at all. The W1000's do tend on the "dry" side. They're not overly analytical to the point that they get hyper detailed and clinical. At the same time, they don't (typically) grab you and rock your socks off either. His analogy to the Ety's is a good one in this regard, because the Ety's can rock you but when they do it's a bit of a surprise.
Whenever I use the W1000's, I get this "Ok, that was pretty good, but certainly unspectacular" feeling and then I want to try something else right away. They don't rock like the HD650's, for example.
As far as system matching, I'd say the best results I had with the W1000's was with the Sugden Headmaster because they responded well to the speed of attack this amp offers. They "opened up" in the sense that they became more lively and delivered more punch. But again, as bangraman so rightfully said, other cans like the CD3000's would respond in similar proportion to such system changes and if you generally prefer the CD3000's to the W1000's with Amp A / Source A, then chances are you still will prefer the CD3000's with Amp B / Source B.
So coming full circle, I think my views (although somewhat limited because I've only fiddled with the W1000's and have never tried to build the "perfect" system around them) are similar to bangraman's. It's just that being an accountant myself, I think accountants are more fun than he does! Well, not much...