[DavidMahler]

There's two votes for other, but as far as I can see no one explained what they voted for

 

[Henerenry]

The only problem I can see with this thread is that, nobody has heard all the phones, or even the majority of them, of all the phones I havent heard, they might be all better then my preference for what I've heard.

 

[Uncle Erik]

Most people who have attended a CanJam in the past two years have heard everything on the list. IIRC, all of them were there and I made a point of listening to all of them.

 

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The only problem I can see with this thread is that, nobody has heard all the phones, or even the majority of them, of all the phones I havent heard, they might be all better then my preference for what I've heard.

 
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Most people who have attended a CanJam in the past two years have heard everything on the list. IIRC, all of them were there and I made a point of listening to all of them.

 
Ditto, went to CJ and I've spent a little time with all the phones in this poll, more than one example of most of them. 

One of my reasons for this years CJ trip was to hear the LCD-2, the HE-5 and the T1. CanJam is the best
place to get some head time before making a purchase. Listening at meets isn't nearly perfect, but it beats the snot out of blind buying according to whats en vogue at head-fi. I went to CJ with the intention of buying the LCD-2 and the T1 this year. I'm buying neither one now, but I have already bought a used pair of HE60's and will buy a JH3a sometime in the next 12 months based on what I heard.  

 

 

[revolink24]

I know I haven't heard them all.... I hate these polls, they invariably end up being based on limited experiences with a limited set of the mentioned products.
 
Also Erik, the fact is that people who attend CanJam are actually a minority of Head-Fiers, even the regulars, and CanJam is still not exactly ideal for testing.
 
Oh well.

 

[DavidMahler]

The ones on my poll which i have heard are:
 
Edition 8
HD800
T1
LCD2
HE-5
 
Have not heard the others, though I have owned a D5000 which I'm sure is quite similar to the D7000. I can easily rule out the Jerry Harvey products becuase I don't look at IEMs as more than portable headphone, and I know based on my UE10s that the JH13 and 16 are probably in the same league tonally as any headphone I own, but the invariable limitations of IEMs would always prevent me from voting for them against a great full-size headphone
 
That leaves the PS1000 which unfortunately I have not heard...being in New York it would seem simple enough to get my hands on one to try.
 
It also leaves the Stax limited model which I'm sure is great but is not their reference model so I'd assume that even if it was great, they certainly make better models
 
I have not heard the HE6 or the HE5LE

 

[DavidMahler]

3 votes for other, and no one specified what that is?

 

[KrypticMind]

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3 votes for other, and no one specified what that is?

Another problem with these polls is that you can't see who's voting for what. Some of the voters may not have even listened to any of the listed cans and put in their vote for what they have read is best. If we could see who was voting, we could also find out who those 3 are.

 

[wink]

One of my nephews likes my 404LE more than my HD800.
I'm not voting for him.
 
Maybe we could rate them in order of preference - the ones  we have heard, of course.

 

[majkel]

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One of my nephews likes my 404LE more than my HD800.

 
This is normal. The HD800 corrupt the sound in a couple of ways: shortened decay, highs lacking the middle subband, big soundstage but lacking perspective feeling. Beyer's T1, Ultrasone's Edition 8 and Grado's PS1000 are above them in terms of sonic fidelity. I chose the T1 due to rigid construction and no crazy engineering like silver-plated cable or punched-through transducer.

 

[Lunatique]

These type of polls mean squat since most people voting have never heard all the candidates listed.

 

[beamthegreat]

I've auditioned the grados, denon, beyerdynamic, and stax and found that the HD 800 produces the most accurate and natural sound if properly amped. The denons has too much bass and thes grado were painful if worn for a while. The beyerdynamic were kinda nice but I like the HD 800 better because of its larger soundstage and were comfortable even if worn for a long period.
 
HD 800 FTW!! 

 

[Drumonron]

Shocking!! 
 
To this point and with all the trash talking about it,
that the hd800 has 41% of the 77 voters to this point?
 
Closest comptetitor is the FOTM LCD-2 @ 11%?? 
 
Interesting...still early, I guess.
 
I know...I know...the poll is corrupt...the poll has problems...my headphone isn't winning.
 

 
(sliding down the flame pole and putting on my flame suit now.)
 
UPDATE: For considerations...there were only 1000 SR-404LE made, correct?  How many would find this poll or head-fi?

 

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[Shahrose]

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These type of polls mean squat since most people voting have never heard all the candidates listed.

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