JML
Headphoneus Supremus
I'm not sure this belongs here or in the amp section, but figured it has more to do with cans than amps.
After listening to the Blockhead & balanced HD-600 yesterday, re-reading the new Stereophile review, but not yet plowing through the HeadRoom information, I started to wonder. Could the vaunted transparency and low distortion of electrostatics somehow be more a product of their wiring -- i.e., the lack of a common return, than what we've presumed to be the cause (the driver design)? The electrostatics I've seen and used all had DIN 5-pin plugs, which means no common return for the circuit, right? Left and right, + and - for each, and a ground. Until the Blockhead, were we all missing something that may be obvious, but only retrospectively?
After listening to the Blockhead & balanced HD-600 yesterday, re-reading the new Stereophile review, but not yet plowing through the HeadRoom information, I started to wonder. Could the vaunted transparency and low distortion of electrostatics somehow be more a product of their wiring -- i.e., the lack of a common return, than what we've presumed to be the cause (the driver design)? The electrostatics I've seen and used all had DIN 5-pin plugs, which means no common return for the circuit, right? Left and right, + and - for each, and a ground. Until the Blockhead, were we all missing something that may be obvious, but only retrospectively?