[poocaso]

Wow cool. How would you get it recabled? They aren't detatchable.

Fellow member HiGHFLYiN9 offers a recabling service:

http://www.zynsonix.com/

 

[sysfail]

Fellow member HiGHFLYiN9 offers a recabling service:

http://www.zynsonix.com/

 
Oh cool didn't know that. Thanks!

 

[chenjy9]

Im going to wait for the warranty to expire before re-cabling my headphones.

 

[plakat]

Got them last Monday after being held at customs for almost 1(!) month... cost me 100,- in addition to the delay.
 
Very beautiful cups, pads are fortunately deep enough for my ears. Treble seems a bit tamed vs. the TH900, but bass is still too much to my taste. The bass level of the Master-1 is all I can take for longer listening.
 
I would have loved to see the headband improved (its padding could be a bit better in my opinion) and the mount points of the gimbals are still edgy, just like with the TH600/TH900, not rounded like on the D7k.
 
The 3,5mm -> 6,3mm adapter is worthless unfortunately. While I appreciate the attention to that detail, a version with a short cable is a must to me, otherwise I fear breaking the socket -- its sticking out far too much.
 
Summary: best value of the current Fostex offerings to me given its beautiful wood cups, but tuning is simply not to my liking. I'm sure others will love it for its forceful bass paired with a smooth midrange and enough treble to not be called dark, but to me it will serve more as showpiece.

 

[Soundsgoodtome]

Burn in and I bet you'll like the sound. Give it 150hrs but 72hrs should tighten the bass and bring out the highs.

Burn in with LOUD electronic music. (Dont wear headphones)

Very beautiful cups, pads are fortunately deep enough for my ears. Treble seems a bit tamed vs. the TH900, but bass is still too much to my taste. The bass level of the Master-1 is all I can take for longer listening.

 

[plakat]

Burn in and I bet you'll like the sound. Give it 150hrs but 72hrs should tighten the bass and bring out the highs.

Burn in with LOUD electronic music. (Dont wear headphones)

Sorry, not a believer in burn-in except brain-burn-in -- and that had enough time to happen, I own a TH900 for quite some time. Actually its overbearing bass became more and more visible over time, it simply stresses me.
Yes, the TH900 does bass impressively good (astoundingly clean given the volume), but its just too much. Same with the TH-X00... Knowing that problem I even paired it with the DAC2, which by itself is a touch lean (when compared to e.g. the Violectric V281).
 
I think I've simply had my share of earth-shattering bass (I do PA rental as a side business and now value precision more than volume (even if its far from muddy, bass on the Fostexes is not bad or one-note).

 

[Soundsgoodtome]

Show of hands to everyone but how many people experienced bass tightening and treble sparkling after some time on their THX00?

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You should let the thx00 make a believer out of you.

Sorry, not a believer in burn-in except brain-burn-in -- and that had enough time to happen, I own a TH900 for quite some time. Actually its overbearing bass became more and more visible over time, it simply stresses me.

 

[plakat]

Ah, I won't go through this discussion just another time
Plus as I said I own a TH900 for more than 2 years... its still bugging me with too much bass every time I try it on, so the TH-X00 will not change either. Its fun for some minutes, but I listen quite a lot during work and neither the TH900 nor the TH600 or the TH-X00 does that for me.
 
That should not spoil anyones else enjoyment of these... they are beautiful and many love their bass massive and clean. To me they are just beautiful.

 

[Billheiser]

Show of hands to everyone but how many people experienced bass tightening and treble sparkling after some time on their THX00?

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You should let the thx00 make a believer out of you.  

Getting used to the sound is definitely a real thing.  Headphone burn-in might well be a real thing, too, but I can't say if that's what I experienced.  I've been listening and enjoying, but not comparing same songs played when they were new.  
So my show of hands is just a sideways palm-wiggle.

 

[plakat]

  Getting used to the sound is definitely a real thing.

 
Very much so. Within limits one can get used to a headphone if listening to that one exclusively for some time. But to make this happen for me it has to pull me in somehow, pique my interest. The TH-X00 is just too much like the TH900, where I've already tried (and ultimately failed) to get acquainted to its sound signature. At that time the T1 won, now its the Master-1 and the HD800S.
The TH-X00 is still nice enough to keep it and I'll be listening from time to time. But it won't become one of my headphones for daily use. But again: that should not put off anybody, its not bad in any way, just not fitting properly so to say.

 

[innaterebel]

Well @Soundsgoodtome got a little agitated because... burn-in IS real on TH-X00.
I am a burn-in disbeliever as well (yes I still 'am' because I suppose a successful product shouldn't rely on insecure client-side procedure. Actually I see TH-X00 as not a success since it can sounded really bad out of box and scares people away).
I can tell I was shocked when I found it sounded so bloated and unbalance out of box.
I can also tell I was shocked again when I found all the bloated mid-bass COMPLETELY gone after burn-in.
It was like a subwoofer being turned off so unless I was in fact getting deaf it couldn't be my brain.
Frankly I now call my pair bass-lite if the song doesn't contain good sub-bass.
And I didn't mention I am a neutralhead and my previous main phone is the infamous K550.
 
Of course I am not convincing you, I myself had not been perceived real burn-in on all my previous phones. I can't say every pair of TH-X00 all has this chance. Just feeling a bit of... call of duty to post

 

 

[Soundsgoodtome]

You're lying

Your experience is just like mine. At $399 I don't expect a company to burn in phones. For marketing purpoSes I'd do just the opposite to get people buzzing about said product lol

Well @Soundsgoodtome
 got a little agitated because... burn-in IS real on TH-X00.
I am a burn-in disbeliever as well (yes I still 'am' because I suppose a successful product shouldn't rely on insecure client-side procedure. Actually I see TH-X00 as not a success since it can sounded really bad out of box and scares people away).
I can tell I was shocked when I found it sounded so bloated and unbalance out of box.
I can also tell I was shocked again when I found all the bloated mid-bass COMPLETELY gone after burn-in.
It was like a subwoofer being turned off so unless I was in fact getting deaf it couldn't be my brain.
Frankly I now call my pair bass-lite if the song doesn't contain good sub-bass.
And I didn't mention I am a neutralhead and my previous main phone is the infamous K550.

Of course I am not convincing you, I myself had not been perceived real burn-in on all my previous phones. I can't say every pair of TH-X00 all has this chance. Just feeling a bit of... call of duty to post  

 

[fjrabon]

Burn in and I bet you'll like the sound. Give it 150hrs but 72hrs should tighten the bass and bring out the highs.

Burn in with LOUD electronic music. (Dont wear headphones)

the level of the bass doesn't change with burn-in though.  And the level seems to be what he has a problem with.  I'd just let this one go as a "different strokes for different folks" thing.

 

[reeltime]

I brought these with me on the plane for a day trip to Dallas yesterday, with the Hugo and AK240.  I would have liked another hour or two of flight time!

 

[fjrabon]

  I brought these with me on the plane for a day trip to Dallas yesterday, with the Hugo and AK240.  I would have liked another hour or two of flight time!

wow, they were enough isolation for you on a flight?  About the only thing that works for me on a flight are IEMs or ANC.