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Originally Posted by tfarney /img/forum/go_quote.gif
And I don't find them to be slow. Granted, there's no speed metal in my house, but there is a full collection of mid-70s King Crimson, ( not to mention Mahavishnu Orchestra, plus a copy of Santana's Lotus and Zappa's Shut Up and Play Your Guitar). Not metal, but definitely heavy. I think most metal acts should listen to Red, Starless and Bible Black and Larks Tongues in Aspic...and be humbled.
Tim
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Listen to any single-ended Senns with Dissection, Nile, Cryptopsy, heck, just any plain fast and dense symphonic piece like Stravinsky's Petrouchka or very dense, complex electronica like Shpongle's "Tales of the Inexpressible..." the Senns just can't keep up. Microdetail goes out of the window, images start to blur and lose definition, air and space around instruments disintegrates, etc...
This isn't just the Senns; most dynamic heaphones have a speed ceiling that they have a very hard time going beyond. Not all music out there will push them to that limit, in fact most music won't, but a lot of the stuff I happen to listen to will, and I really have a hard time liking most single-ended dynamics because of it.
Balanced drive improves things quite a bit, but still not up to the level of a planar headphone. But, in balanced drive, Senn speed is palatable, and definitely in the upper echelon of dynamic drivers.
This is what I mean when I claim Senns are slow. By contrast, on an electrostat, no matter how much you overload it with massively dense and complex music, it never loses sight of each and every instrument. Microdetail, imaging, air and space around each instrument, tone, texture, all stay consistent throughout. Listening to a death metal drummer blastbeating at 20 beats per second and hearing the shimmer on each cymbal and the reverberations inside each drum is pretty mesmerizing.