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1000+ Head-Fier
I was going to post this reply to a comment made in another thread but did not as it seems off topic.
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bah. the gs1000's are beautifully balanced and I've been swimming in grado mids under mine all week. But their presentation is completely unique in the grado line (so far); because they were designed and engineered to retain some elements of the signature grado sound, to add other elements, and to have a huge soundstage instead of being "in your face" (no you can't have it both ways, but you can own both phones). when compared to rs1's by some of those addicted to the rs-1's "you're on the stage" viewpoint they are found lacking in slam. and it absolutely took me time to get acclimated to the differences, but the increase in tonal range, soundstage and smooth highs here is significant. they are the ultimate grado's for most music, and unless you have to have the slam and the concentration on mids that make all rock sound so amazing on other grado's; they rock very well indeed. I listened to live cream 2005 and jeff beck "beck ola" today, and they were smokin'. not the same visceral experience as traditional grados', but just smokin'. so were mozart piano concertos, bartok concerto for orchestra, and every piece of jazz I threw at them. comparing them to rs1's with Kate Bush's Aerial, the new stereo mastering of Pet Sounds, the new Gomez (how we operate), Jennifer Warnes "the well" and Neil youngs "prarie wind" they revealed so much more in these recordings than Rs1's, K701's, sony cd3000's and shure e500's that the only phone in the same ballpark that I have isn't really a headphone (the AKG k1000's. they are speakers you hang off your head. and they do some things better than the gs1000's, and other things not as well).
btw, hearing Grado mids in classical recordings with this kind of soundstage is just heavenly. And the tone of every acoustic bass note is just crasy rich, like no other phone for $1,000 or under.
They are absolutely not the drenched in mids/ slammin/ in yer face sound of rs1's (my primary phone for a decade, and I still love that sound) but aside from that they are SO MUCH MORE. As it was with RS1's on their introduction, when the dust settles the gs1000s will be a classic; and considered one of a very few available headphones to have anywhere near their level of refinement in reproducing all types of music.
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| Originally Posted by mrarroyo The GS1000 has a lot of bass and a lot of treble with no midrange, at least that was what I heard following over 300 hours of burn in. Good luck. |
bah. the gs1000's are beautifully balanced and I've been swimming in grado mids under mine all week. But their presentation is completely unique in the grado line (so far); because they were designed and engineered to retain some elements of the signature grado sound, to add other elements, and to have a huge soundstage instead of being "in your face" (no you can't have it both ways, but you can own both phones). when compared to rs1's by some of those addicted to the rs-1's "you're on the stage" viewpoint they are found lacking in slam. and it absolutely took me time to get acclimated to the differences, but the increase in tonal range, soundstage and smooth highs here is significant. they are the ultimate grado's for most music, and unless you have to have the slam and the concentration on mids that make all rock sound so amazing on other grado's; they rock very well indeed. I listened to live cream 2005 and jeff beck "beck ola" today, and they were smokin'. not the same visceral experience as traditional grados', but just smokin'. so were mozart piano concertos, bartok concerto for orchestra, and every piece of jazz I threw at them. comparing them to rs1's with Kate Bush's Aerial, the new stereo mastering of Pet Sounds, the new Gomez (how we operate), Jennifer Warnes "the well" and Neil youngs "prarie wind" they revealed so much more in these recordings than Rs1's, K701's, sony cd3000's and shure e500's that the only phone in the same ballpark that I have isn't really a headphone (the AKG k1000's. they are speakers you hang off your head. and they do some things better than the gs1000's, and other things not as well).
btw, hearing Grado mids in classical recordings with this kind of soundstage is just heavenly. And the tone of every acoustic bass note is just crasy rich, like no other phone for $1,000 or under.
They are absolutely not the drenched in mids/ slammin/ in yer face sound of rs1's (my primary phone for a decade, and I still love that sound) but aside from that they are SO MUCH MORE. As it was with RS1's on their introduction, when the dust settles the gs1000s will be a classic; and considered one of a very few available headphones to have anywhere near their level of refinement in reproducing all types of music.
