John2e
Headphoneus Supremus
had two yesterday now none available through Hidef lifestyle
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I'll have the Utopia in about 4-5 weeks as I am number 4 on Todd TVJ's loaner program
I'll post impressions of them both shortly thereafter
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What does it exactly mean when you say "how dynamic" it is?
Is this how impactful the sound is? Is that characteristic of the mid-bass slam?
Everyone raves how dynamic these two headphones sound, what precisely does this mean?
Please let us know how it performs with Metal, I haven't read any reviews saying a word about this!
kick, punch, drive, speed, thrust of the delivery of the sound. Kind of like the effect of the overall pace and impact of all the individual instruments coming together.What does it exactly mean when you say "how dynamic" it is?
Is this how impactful the sound is? Is that characteristic of the mid-bass punch?
Everyone raves how dynamic these two headphones sound, but what precisely does this mean?
What kind of metal? What do you want to know? I listened to parts of several metal tracks with it, though I didn't call any of them out specifically in my impressions post.
Congrats!!!
Did you by chance, ask your dealer about replacement ear pads? With all the pad rolling talk, I was wondering if you're interested in trying the Elear pads also?
How does it perform with, say, old skool (thrash) metal like Metallica? Does the electric guitar sound genuine? How about when the drummer plays fast, does it sound like you're almost there, like a "live" concert? In short, does it give you goosebumps, or do you go, meh, could be better...
Volts RMS required to reach 90dB SPL:
Spirit Pro 0.036 Vrms
Spirit Classic 0.043 Vrms
TH-900 0.062 Vrms
Utopia 0.073 Vrms
Elear 0.096 Vrms
HD650 0.205 Vrms
HD800 0.242 Vrms
Raw frequency response plots show some significant change in response between 200Hz and 2kHz with movement on head, the biggest range of change occurred between 1kHz and 2kHz. In listening test I clearly heard changes when moving the headphones forward and back on my head. When my ears were in the front of the cups it got brighter, when towards the rear of the cups it became warmer.
- http://www.innerfidelity.com/content/worlds-best-headphone-focal-utopia-measurements#uVPtH2OrEGAEe23r.99