kitaoji
100+ Head-Fier
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Hi,
I'm going to vary the thread musicmind started, and since this involves different headphones, I felt it was worthy to create a new thread instead.
I'm currently running foobar out of my Toshiba Portege A100 laptop, and the headphones (currently Sennheiser eH350) run straight out of the headphone out port. Most of music is in 160+kbps mp3 (sometimes 192, sometimes 320, or lossless), and is relatively light anime soundtrack (think light background music that doesn't mean too much, soprano female vocals, and some rock+tight bass a la Kajiura Yuki [a prominent composer]). I also use my headphones for listening to everything, so this includes internet radio and watching movies on my laptop.
I'm not sure if my soon-to-arrive-DT880s are overkill for this current system, although the reason why I chose them in the first place was their soundstage and more treble focus, as opposed to my bass-heavy (echo-y) PX100s, which I love the sound-texture of, but not that bass. Also, I love instrument separation. If the headphones can give you that really good 3D effect that's allows you to locate the x,y,z co-ordinates of a particular voice and instruments, that would be lovely ^_^ instead of spitting out molded globs of music the eH350s are doing now.
Obviously the DT880s will need some amp to run them, but I'll leave the amp for DT880s elsewhere...
So right now, will the DT880s be too much? I've read in some places that the AKG 501 might be decent, or the AKG 701 is just as equal a choice (plus its lower impedance and higher sensitivity, make it easier to run out of a laptop and the integrated sound card). I might return those beyers after the 100 hour burn-in mark, if they aren't quite what I'm looking for (or too many people convince me otherwise)
Also - if you're in the Bay Area, and have any of the AKGs or any equally high end headphones, AND willing to let a college student borrow them for a week or so, please PM me. My ears and wallet (which keeps on going into slumps when I buy a whole bunch of headphones to try) will thank you.
I'm going to vary the thread musicmind started, and since this involves different headphones, I felt it was worthy to create a new thread instead.
I'm currently running foobar out of my Toshiba Portege A100 laptop, and the headphones (currently Sennheiser eH350) run straight out of the headphone out port. Most of music is in 160+kbps mp3 (sometimes 192, sometimes 320, or lossless), and is relatively light anime soundtrack (think light background music that doesn't mean too much, soprano female vocals, and some rock+tight bass a la Kajiura Yuki [a prominent composer]). I also use my headphones for listening to everything, so this includes internet radio and watching movies on my laptop.
I'm not sure if my soon-to-arrive-DT880s are overkill for this current system, although the reason why I chose them in the first place was their soundstage and more treble focus, as opposed to my bass-heavy (echo-y) PX100s, which I love the sound-texture of, but not that bass. Also, I love instrument separation. If the headphones can give you that really good 3D effect that's allows you to locate the x,y,z co-ordinates of a particular voice and instruments, that would be lovely ^_^ instead of spitting out molded globs of music the eH350s are doing now.
Obviously the DT880s will need some amp to run them, but I'll leave the amp for DT880s elsewhere...
So right now, will the DT880s be too much? I've read in some places that the AKG 501 might be decent, or the AKG 701 is just as equal a choice (plus its lower impedance and higher sensitivity, make it easier to run out of a laptop and the integrated sound card). I might return those beyers after the 100 hour burn-in mark, if they aren't quite what I'm looking for (or too many people convince me otherwise)
Also - if you're in the Bay Area, and have any of the AKGs or any equally high end headphones, AND willing to let a college student borrow them for a week or so, please PM me. My ears and wallet (which keeps on going into slumps when I buy a whole bunch of headphones to try) will thank you.