sandalaudio
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^ Yes, with stock pads. Not interested in changing the pads, as I doubt that would change the sound enough to get me to like it, and I vastly prefer the Audio-Technica MSR7 at this point by a huge margin.
I've been listening to mine solidly for classical music, and I also find the imaging of TH-X00 quite unusual, though I really enjoy it.
I think it has a very deep forward projection but narrow side to side stereo, so it's almost like listening to a surround sound movie at the furthest back seat at a movie theatre. I went to watch Star Wars and then I listened to some Mahler symphonies on TH-X00 and realised the similarities in presentation.
I also own the MSR7 and think it's a major bargain at that price, but the imaging is polar opposite to the TH-X00 where the analytical detail is there but doesn't give me a speaker (or concert seat) like projection. On the other hand, TH-X00 is too laid back.
By the way, does anybody know what's the headphones on the HP-A4BL amp's official glamour shot? It looks like the new TH900MK2 (with the replaceable cables) but the body colour is like TH-X00. Maybe it's just the lighting.