bmoorthamers
New Head-Fier
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Good Day!
As this is my first ever post here; a little introduction! For those non-caring but willing to help me, skip the first two paragraphs ;p Man, I get addicted so easily whenever I see a forum as enthusiastic as this one. Kind of reminds me of watchuseek, a forum on watches, which made me buy like 5 pieces in a couple of weeks. You don't really need it, but you want it
Seems like headphone-gear renders the same effect! I once got Philips SHL8800's for christmas 2010, headphones of which I thought they were fine. However, they broke some time ago, and going back to my standard Apple iPod buds sucks. Seeing as how many big-sized headphones I broke over the years in a bag (mostly cables hanging everywhere), I thought of going for in-ears this time. I love googling like crazy to find something that lives to the bang-of-the-buck principle. This way, I ended up buying Brainwavz M4's. Still awaiting them, excited! My taste of music differs from time to time and genre to genre. At the moment I listen a lot of Indie/Rock, but I do however like to go back to my old roots of dubstep, dance, and D&B quite a lot. I read that M4's bass may be a bit low compared to the M2's, so I'm awaiting to see how that turns out. I'm not buying two IEM's right of the bat, I don't see any use in that (the head-fi bug is tickling me, but has yet to bite). But since the M4's turned out to be pleasantly cheap (44,5USD/32EUR), and are probably still occupied with travelling from HongKong to The Netherlands in the next 3 weeks, I want to buy something that will sound maybe a tad more suitable for dance/d&b/dub, (I assume you could say these have bass? That's another thing, I don't really know what is "a lot of bass" or not, I have yet to get a feeling of comparison). I'd like something for home/long travel use as well, something bigger. On to the full-size market!
Based on a lot of random googling, not being an expert on head-fi terms, I first stopped at the Sennheiser PX 100/200ii, not knowing what to choose between those two, and not being utterly convinced by either one of those. Some googling later, and finding this thread (http://www.head-fi.org/t/433318/shootout-96-portable-headphones-reviewed-v-moda-m-80-added-11-27-11), I think the Creative Aurvana Live! and Superlux HD 668B are much, much better than the Sennheisers. Also, they are cheaper. 51EUR for the CAL! and around 40-45-ish for the SHD668B. I realise that not many of you have the CAL!, but maybe you experienced it somewhere else/you know from others.
That's it basically.. First of all, am I correct thinking I want a more bass-oriented headphone next, and which of these two (or the Senns?) is the best?
Thanks! Love your forum. On to many more
Bruno
As this is my first ever post here; a little introduction! For those non-caring but willing to help me, skip the first two paragraphs ;p Man, I get addicted so easily whenever I see a forum as enthusiastic as this one. Kind of reminds me of watchuseek, a forum on watches, which made me buy like 5 pieces in a couple of weeks. You don't really need it, but you want it
Seems like headphone-gear renders the same effect! I once got Philips SHL8800's for christmas 2010, headphones of which I thought they were fine. However, they broke some time ago, and going back to my standard Apple iPod buds sucks. Seeing as how many big-sized headphones I broke over the years in a bag (mostly cables hanging everywhere), I thought of going for in-ears this time. I love googling like crazy to find something that lives to the bang-of-the-buck principle. This way, I ended up buying Brainwavz M4's. Still awaiting them, excited! My taste of music differs from time to time and genre to genre. At the moment I listen a lot of Indie/Rock, but I do however like to go back to my old roots of dubstep, dance, and D&B quite a lot. I read that M4's bass may be a bit low compared to the M2's, so I'm awaiting to see how that turns out. I'm not buying two IEM's right of the bat, I don't see any use in that (the head-fi bug is tickling me, but has yet to bite
). But since the M4's turned out to be pleasantly cheap (44,5USD/32EUR), and are probably still occupied with travelling from HongKong to The Netherlands in the next 3 weeks, I want to buy something that will sound maybe a tad more suitable for dance/d&b/dub, (I assume you could say these have bass? That's another thing, I don't really know what is "a lot of bass" or not, I have yet to get a feeling of comparison). I'd like something for home/long travel use as well, something bigger. On to the full-size market!Based on a lot of random googling, not being an expert on head-fi terms, I first stopped at the Sennheiser PX 100/200ii, not knowing what to choose between those two, and not being utterly convinced by either one of those. Some googling later, and finding this thread (http://www.head-fi.org/t/433318/shootout-96-portable-headphones-reviewed-v-moda-m-80-added-11-27-11), I think the Creative Aurvana Live! and Superlux HD 668B are much, much better than the Sennheisers. Also, they are cheaper. 51EUR for the CAL! and around 40-45-ish for the SHD668B. I realise that not many of you have the CAL!, but maybe you experienced it somewhere else/you know from others.
That's it basically.. First of all, am I correct thinking I want a more bass-oriented headphone next, and which of these two (or the Senns?) is the best?
Thanks! Love your forum. On to many more
Bruno
