I see that you have HD650. Have any listening impessions with HG2 and HD650, if so, how well do HG2 drive them and hows the synergy? Really Liked the idsd bl with HD650.
I was going to ask the same question as
@Christer . I am wondering whether it is the unnatural sound of headphones that may be the cause of the problems and whether crossfeed may help. The other thing is that listening via headphones makes you concentrate more on the music, so that could be the cause in itself.
Hmm. A couple of as usual, purely personal and subjective observations from me with regard to, first crossfeed which at least to my ears and well knowing from personal experience that most classical music is both monitored at sessions via headphones and already has been mixed to sound good via headphones too. Crossfeed to me sounds artificial and IS ARTIFICIAL and not natural partly because it adds yet another step of mixing channels that has in most cases already been done with classical music productions.
And therefore most naturally balanced recordings almost always sound more realistic completely without,than with crossfeed engaged at any level.
Personally I don't really care how those with little or no knowledge of how things actually sounded live in the hall, prefer to listen to their music.
I also suspect that adding more confusion than bits and sampling music digitally already do by adding cross feed as well would help Hyatt's wife process digital data any better?
I may be wrong regarding her, but in my case it makes things worse and more artificial, not more realistic.
I personally clearly prefer not to mess around with things the way crossfeed inevitably does.
Regarding HD 650 also mentioned above, they were imho,good headphones, but have long ago been superceded by clearly better more resolving ones.
I still have a pair but haven't used them for years. I am even considering retiring my HD 800 now that I have the HE1000V2.
Regarding my own reason for asking about Hyatt's wife's reactions to both live music, and digital and possible reactions to analogue was that I have yet to hear digital that sounds as harmonically and timbrally and tonally close to real live acoustic music as the best of analogue can do at its very best.
For me the best reference after the one and only ultimate one, live acoustic music, is still direct cut LP and analogue tape in spite of their respective well known technically measurable limitations compared to digital in some ways.
After listening to Tchaikovsky's 6th via large and very transparent speakers and some 500 watts amping per channel and both my dacs HUGO and Benchmark today, with their differing flavours and digital colourations ,and takes on digital " music mincing" I actually needed an "ear-cleaning" and brain cleaning session afterwards.
I chose the ,after all these years, (it was recorded direct to LP in 1977,) in some important respects, still unrivalled Sheffield Labs LP of Prokofiev's suite from Romeo and Juliet with the LAPO and Leinsdorf conducting.
It can still fool my brain into believing and immensely enjoying,hearing, real live acoustic instruments,more convincingly than both HUGO 1 and Benchmark can.
I am not at all surprised that Hyatt's wife obviously loves live acoustic music, but experiences problems with digital.
