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First of all - a BIG thanks to Destroysall and Coolzo for generously hosting us today!
I recommend the T1 if you like the DT990 and want to move up the technical chain!
No, thank you!!
Also thanks for that recommendation. I wish I had a way to demo it in person before making a purchase, but it does seem promising.
I started my venture with Mr. Sneis' setup. I can't say I disliked the Audio Technica ATH-AD2000X because it was a very interesting headphone in the sense that I felt it was extremely 'airy' in sound. Perhaps the most 'airy' headphone I've ever heard. I enjoy the sound Audio-Technica has for most of their products (an avid the ESW-9, I am). I took a journey with Massive Attack with their tune, "Antistar". The 'airy' presence of the AD2000X made me reach the heavens with the tune, all I could do was just sit back and relax as this group took me on a 10-minute adventure. Absolute bliss. So I can say for the moment I had with the ATH-AD2000X, it was pure bliss.
roscoofyore's setup got me listening to the Fostex HS-P1 trans-portable headphone amplifer. Listening to the V-Moda M-80s, I was very surprised. V-Moda really has come a long way from being cool looking to cool sounding. While it was just a tad to 'boomy' for me, it made me just groove to Paul Chambers' bass plucks on the Miles Davis tune, "Blue In Green". Changing to the Beyerdynamic DT1350, the bass almost immediately disappeared and the treble and mids sparkled just a tad bit, but remained for the most part neutral.
Next door to roscoofyore's setup was Funch's setup, which featured the HD 600, HD 800, and LCD 2. Funch brought over his Sony mod'ed SACD player as a source, which I applaud is still one of the greatest sources in terms of a CD player I have ever heard. It fed info to both a Decware CSP2 and Taboo. This was the headliner of the event, perhaps the one that gained the most attention. My first full demo with the headphone was with the mod'ed HD 800. Now give it now I find out that these headphones were mod'ed, I was still surprised on how wonderful this amplifier brought out the beauty in these headphones. Listening to "All Blues" was extremely marvelous because you can hear every spec of detail in the tune, even his going into his sax's reed. I used to play the sax in high school and love it's sound, even today. Just hearing the sound of it being reproduced in a way like non other was just amazing! If I end up choosing the HD 800 over the T1 in the future, I'll be sure to perform the Anax mod as it improved the sound immensely.
The next headphone I fell in love with at this meet was the Denon AH-D5000. This was a very FUN headphone. It wasn't too focused on being airy, or providing thunderous bass; instead it provided a very warm, exciting headphone that was reminiscent of the HD 650 IMO. I would probably tip my hat the Denon in that war as I felt I loved it much more than HD 650.
I did get to hear Andolink's HiFiMAN HE-500 for a brief moment, but it wasn't long enough to offer an opinion on them.
Overall a fantastic meet with a great turnout. I hope we can get some more pictures on here! See you guys in the Winter!