Oh don't worry, I didn't take your post as a way of putting down the GS1000e's at all.
I need to spend more time with them but I do hear a sort of off-timbre to the bass at times. However, so far I've found more texture and layers to the bass than I did with some other headphones I've had recently.
Oh don't worry, I didn't take your post as a way of putting down the GS1000e's at all.
I need to spend more time with them but I do hear a sort of off-timbre to the bass at times. However, so far I've found more texture and layers to the bass than I did with some other headphones I've had recently.
I'm actually quite enjoying the bass at the moment. It doesn't get in the way. I'm perhaps used to all-BA Shure IEM's and the likes, so it isn't particularly strange to me.
Maybe just my experience but I feel IEMs have a tiger bass experience vs headphones in general. I have shure se425s - of all the headphones I've tried none can't beat the bass.
That being said there are of course downsides to IEMs too
Yeah I agree totally and I have settled on the IE300's as a fun IEM for bass dependant music - they don't possess a massive soundstage and detail although present is masked more often than not, but hey, they're a fun listen.
I did try closed-back headphones to get nearer the IEM experience but to be honest it wasn't hitting the right spot and I knew I was never going to get there without investing a lot of time and money trying to find something.
I bought the GS1000's as I wanted headphones purely for soundstage with good detail retrieval. That, and nostalgia perhaps as some of my most memorable hifi experiences were with my old GS1000's I had some 15 years back.
Yeah I agree totally and I have settled on the IE300's as a fun IEM for bass dependant music - they don't possess a massive soundstage and detail although present is masked more often than not, but hey, they're a fun listen.
I did try closed-back headphones to get nearer the IEM experience but to be honest it wasn't hitting the right spot and I knew I was never going to get there without investing a lot of time and money trying to find something.
I bought the GS1000's as I wanted headphones purely for soundstage with good detail retrieval. That, and nostalgia perhaps as some of my most memorable hifi experiences were with my old GS1000's I had some 15 years back.
Agreed IEMs never have the same soundstage as open backed headphones, but the bass is tighter and more responsive. Just different use cases really, I mainly use my IEMs when I'm out and about
What is your 'ultimate' headphone amp for grado's. Is their an amp with great pairing?
Over time I have used a lot of different amps. After the breakdown of my Hugo TT2 am struggling to see any high end amp necessary for my grado headphones.
~ It could vary across the specific Grado model. What might be for, say, the 325x might be for, say, the GS-1000e.
~ My Grado stable is but three: RS-1x, GS-3000e, PS-2000e. To my ears, all of these sound fantastic with: Flux Lab Acoustics FA-22 (SS) and Woo Audio WA6SE (tube OTC).
What is your 'ultimate' headphone amp for grado's. Is their an amp with great pairing?
Over time I have used a lot of different amps. After the breakdown of my Hugo TT2 am struggling to see any high end amp necessary for my grado headphones.
Vintage receiver or integrated amplifier / 1964-79 models. Pioneer, Sansui, Kenwood, Marantz, Fisher … are amongst the best. You can listen from the headphone output on a vintage amp as opposed to modern integrated amps. Vintage amps used resistors which were connected directly to the speaker tap which means you get the same sound as you do with speakers that is to say the sound of the amp itself. Modern amps use op-amps which are separate from the amp itself and generally don’t sound very good. In my case I don’t find any problems with my headphones w/ my vintage Kenwood KA-8006, 70wpc [1974], when it comes to their individual impedance. They all sound great w/ it.
What is your 'ultimate' headphone amp for grado's. Is their an amp with great pairing?
Over time I have used a lot of different amps. After the breakdown of my Hugo TT2 am struggling to see any high end amp necessary for my grado headphones.
Haha, the good old black electrical tape mod! I'd forgotten about that, so need to try that with my recently acquired 325is. I currently have more black gaffer tape available, which will probably work just fine, and probably look a bit better than the semi-gloss of the electrical tape.
You can see it in the 6th picture. I’d originally ordered the medium soft case but Richard called me and said the RS1x required the large case and that there was not much size difference between them…however the medium was not big enough even with the stock pads.
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for, say, the 325x might be 
for, say, the GS-1000e.
