AT Khan
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Unnecessarily thick and long cable. The Achilles heel of this otherwise awesome product.
Unnecessarily thick and long cable. The Achilles heel of this otherwise awesome product.
My TH-X00 has been modded by @PETEREK with a removeable cable mod and balanced termination, with a 4pin to SE adapter. I'm impressed by the quality of his work.
Btw- Im reading mixed impressions on the TH-X00 PH bass compared to the mahogany. If someone owns them both, can you please post impressions? Ive been only reading impressions from people who have either had them for a very short time or only under meet conditions.
Looking to get some X00s soon, can't decide between the PH and mahogany. Does the PH decrease the accuracy or speed at all? I recently tried the IE80s, but compared to my M100s they just sounded really flabby and inaccurate, although I didn't give them much time for comparison, returning them the day after I got them. Definitely not an experience I want with what will likely be my end game cans for the next year or two. I have HD650s with a schiit vali 2 and modi 2, but I'm looking for a good bassy, fast, and accurate option to compliment my much loved 650s, which don't satisfy me at all when it comes to more bass-centric music. My M100s do satisfy me on bass-centric music, but they aren't the most comfortable cans to say the least (even with the XL pads), and with everything I've heard about the X00s, they should be a large improvement over my M100s.
I've also heard some dodgy reviews of the PH vs mahogany thing, some people saying the PH actually has less base, stuff like that. Would greatly appreciate some suggestions from anyone who's heard them.
My TH-X00 has been modded by @PETEREK with a removeable cable mod and balanced termination, with a 4pin to SE adapter. I'm impressed by the quality of his work.
Btw- Im reading mixed impressions on the TH-X00 PH bass compared to the mahogany. If someone owns them both, can you please post impressions? Ive been only reading impressions from people who have either had them for a very short time or only under meet conditions.
I've also heard some dodgy reviews of the PH vs mahogany thing, some people saying the PH actually has less base, stuff like that. Would greatly appreciate some suggestions from anyone who's heard them.
I have both, PH is more bassy but not in a "wow it's so much different" way it's like it is just turned up a small notch with the fullness and punch. If you put the headphones on an unsuspecting person's head and played the same song on both it's unlikely they would be able to tell the difference unless they are looking for it. I use the PH more as I listen to music genres that benefit from as much bass as they can give and I like the looks more but I would have been perfectly content with the mahoganies.
If you much prefer the looks of one over the other i'd go by that, that's how small the differences are, imo.
Talking of, MD is shipping my polishing kit today for my pack marks, hope it does it's job as I really love the the wood of the PH.
Definitely not the case with mine, which is as expected with initial reviews/graphs. I am wondering if the people that are experiencing more bass with the mahogs have the cup alignment issue on the PHs. I have (very occasionally) heard some people noticing the cup gap on some of these headphones is not as flush as it should be and after religning/tightening the issues going and better bass. Luckily I had no such issues on mine.
Looking to get some X00s soon, can't decide between the PH and mahogany. Does the PH decrease the accuracy or speed at all? I recently tried the IE80s, but compared to my M100s they just sounded really flabby and inaccurate, although I didn't give them much time for comparison, returning them the day after I got them. Definitely not an experience I want with what will likely be my end game cans for the next year or two. I have HD650s with a schiit vali 2 and modi 2, but I'm looking for a good bassy, fast, and accurate option to compliment my much loved 650s, which don't satisfy me at all when it comes to more bass-centric music. My M100s do satisfy me on bass-centric music, but they aren't the most comfortable cans to say the least (even with the XL pads), and with everything I've heard about the X00s, they should be a large improvement over my M100s.
I've also heard some dodgy reviews of the PH vs mahogany thing, some people saying the PH actually has less base, stuff like that. Would greatly appreciate some suggestions from anyone who's heard them.
Everything but the cups are exactly the same right? Is there any way to get the mahogany/PH cups without buying the headphones themselves? I know the lawton and emu teak cups fit on the X00s, but lawtons cost an arm and a leg, and I have no idea where to get the teak cups from. Later down the line I may try to make my own, but for now if there's a way to get any other cups under like $100-150-ish max, i'd love to know.
From what I've read so far I'm just gonna go with whatever goes on massdrop first. (hopefully that's pretty soon, if not i'll just buy used)