[Focker]

Wow, a bunch of you guys have picked up the HD700s...very interesting. Thanks for the feedback, guys. I actually am really interested to use them with movies, as well...glad they perform well with that application. 
 
I definitley didn't pick them up to replace my Grados, though...just adding another flavor to the mix  

 

[mikey1964]

  Wow, a bunch of you guys have picked up the HD700s...very interesting. Thanks for the feedback, guys. I actually am really interested to use them with movies, as well...glad they perform well with that application. 
 
I definitley didn't pick them up to replace my Grados, though...just adding another flavor to the mix  

I can fully understand this, something different to mix it up....I rotate my cans all the time, though I do have my K812 and GS1ki as regulars for now.

 

[jaywillin]

i get a plan, make a sale, have a few dollars, then y'all start talking about something other than "the plan" (hd700) and i start having thoughts that deviate from "the plan"  grrrrrrrrr

 

[whirlwind]

  i get a plan, make a sale, have a few dollars, then y'all start talking about something other than "the plan" (hd700) and i start having thoughts that deviate from "the plan"  grrrrrrrrr

Ha ha.....in the words of Vince Lombardi  "The game plan is to stick to the game plan"     

 

[jaywillin]

  Ha ha.....in the words of Vince Lombardi  "The game plan is to stick to the game plan"     

other than an cheaper closed can, i have a couple of other ideas floating around,  

 

[Col888]

   
Yes, bought a pair last week and, so far, loving it. I've posted a number times in the 700 thread with my impressions. I don't think it sounds like a Grado (I have an RS2i), but that's just me.
 
Enjoy your new cans!

Funnily enough I own RS2i (love em) rock me to sleep every night, through a ifi Nano dac and ifi Nano amp with me iPad.
Just acquired HD800 and a Little Dot mkii  for my main listening, lounging with  feet up during the day ( retired u c, so lots to listen to)
Before the HD800 main phones were the HD600 ( which i still have and may keep)  So yes Sennheisers and Grado are kinda compatible. I do love tubes though so maybe thats lure of the Senns.

 

[joseph69]

  I remember thinking they sounded artificial vs the grados. The grados to me had better timbre.

I felt this way when I had the PS1K/HD-800's side by side…something just sounded artificial too me with the HD-800 compared to the PS1K's.

 

[ruthieandjohn]

  I felt this way when I had the PS1K/HD-800's side by side…something just sounded artificial too me with the HD-800 compared to the PS1K's.

I found the HD 800 better at soundstage and strength of bass than either the Grado PS1000 or RS1i, but I found the Grados more transparent, which is a feature to which I have become addicted ("Never use a preposition to end a sentence with!")
 
Best of each 3-way comparison is Blue (3 points), 2nd best is Red (2), 3rd best is Yellow (1)
 

 

[Focker]

  i get a plan, make a sale, have a few dollars, then y'all start talking about something other than "the plan" (hd700) and i start having thoughts that deviate from "the plan"  grrrrrrrrr

 
I'm only taking a small portion of the blame on this one...I had no idea so many people were going to chime in with HD700 love..I think we should all just blame Krutsch 

 
On a side not, I'm DEVASTATED...I've been working hard to re-do a small room in my apartment from an HT set-up that wasn't as comfortable as I'd hoped, to an arrangement that I already enjoy much better. My little Outlaw Audio M8 subwoofer - LOVE this little beast - has been sitting around for about 9 months with nothing to do...I went to fire it up and I think the amp is blown 

  I don't even have it connected to anything, but as soon as I plug it in there is this loud humming noise...I'm so bummed!! This is a sub that nobody seems to ever know about, yet I've had it for four years and been enjoying it immensely. A very sad day!! 

 

[jaywillin]

   
I'm only taking a small portion of the blame on this one...I had no idea so many people were going to chime in with HD700 love..I think we should all just blame Krutsch 

 
On a side not, I'm DEVASTATED...I've been working hard to re-do a small room in my apartment from an HT set-up that wasn't as comfortable as I'd hoped, to an arrangement that I already enjoy much better. My little Outlaw Audio M8 subwoofer - LOVE this little beast - has been sitting around for about 9 months with nothing to do...I went to fire it up and I think the amp is blown 

  I don't even have it connected to anything, but as soon as I plug it in there is this loud humming noise...I'm so bummed!! This is a sub that nobody seems to ever know about, yet I've had it for four years and been enjoying it immensely. A very sad day!! 

well, i must admit, the hd700 has had my interested since i heard it at the meet in nashville a while back 
 
too bad about the sub, time to spend even more $$

 

[brokenthumb]

I also had the HD700 and really liked it, probably one of the most comfortable headphones out there.  

 

[jaywillin]

 

 

[Oteil]

Got my dad listening to the PS1000 tonight. He is 71 and got me into hi fi and good music....He kind of scoffed at first at the headphones, but once he got started listening he couldn't stop. He even was tapping his foot and hands.  He was listening to Little Feat's Waiting for Columbus. I asked him what he thought and he said, sorry this sounds really good and put the headphones back on. Grado's just have that magic.

 

[Focker]

  Got my dad listening to the PS1000 tonight. He is 71 and got me into hi fi and good music....He kind of scoffed at first at the headphones, but once he got started listening he couldn't stop. He even was tapping his foot and hands.  He was listening to Little Feat's Waiting for Columbus. I asked him what he thought and he said, sorry this sounds really good and put the headphones back on. Grado's just have that magic.

 
I can totallly relate to your Dad. I've been into home audio since I bought my first pair of "real" speakers in the early 90s. From then until 2011, I had absolutely zero interest in headphones and coulndt' understand why anyone would choose them over speakers. And like your Dad, it was a pair of Grados that enlightened me

 

[beez]

black 325 with hp1000 blackstar drivers and hpa-2. took me a while to get these treasures together, but seek and ye shall find.. 
 
grado bliss