upstateguy
Headphoneus Supremus
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All I can say is that the differences between my ALO pair and Pacha's pair were HUGE.............
After I relocated my system to another this summer, it took me a lot of time to optimize it again in order to get smooth and extended treble with T1s. The drivers of the T1 are extremely fast and are sensitive to very minor tweaks upstream. One month ago, I was about to sell the T1s. Now, I am very satisfied with them (while I am still using the same solid state DAC / Headamp as yours).
Obviously, we have different HRTF, so the same headphone will never sound exactly the same to different users. So YMMV.
Hi Slim
It's always troubling to hear that there was such a big difference from recabling. If the T1s were so bright you wanted to sell them, and recabling toned them down to acceptable levels, it suggests that the ALO cable is acting rather like a low pass filter. It's hard for me to rationalize that Beyer made such a grievous error in the choice of cabling for their top of the line headphone.... when considering their purchasing power and the cost of the raw materials, Beyer could have implemented any cabling system they wanted or needed, in order to make the T1 sound as good as it could.
I agree with your driver statement. The T1 is very sensitive to upstream components. I too was going to sell my T1s for the same reasons. I solved the problem by removing the treble tilted and artificially sounding stock HiFace from the chain and replacing it with a Blue Circle Transport.
USG