dongringo
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Definitely not the D4. It's too bright for Grados.
Definitely not the D4. It's too bright for Grados.
All RS1i owners,
Can you describe how your RS1i sounds? Does it sound edgy,bright and even harsh under certain songs? Is the treble very crisp?
All RS1i owners,
Can you describe how your RS1i sounds? Does it sound edgy,bright and even harsh under certain songs? Is the treble very crisp?
Thanks for your input, did you ever own a RS1 before the RS1i? If so, how similar or different do they sound? I'm asking because I have heard 3 RS1i. I demoed one in a store that was very much the same sound grado signature as my RS1 ( as well as my previous SR225) which is bright and can be harsh sounding, bass light and tight as well. The two other RS1i, I have owned ( Online purchases, no chance to demo before buying) and they were so different that I was very disappointed. The treble was too tame and the upper midrange peak was not there. Imagine a grado that was playing it safe, trying to not emphasis anything. That was what those two sounded like.
i just a/b'd at bay and bloor radio a bunch of headphones. They dont have a proper set up as they were running the sound through an ipod via a peach tree tube preamp. So i believe that this gave a large disadvantage to the power hungry hd800's, and hd650's. i also listened to the denon 5000 & 7000. The sens were murky, the denons bass was too boomy the grado rs1i's however made me hear things in tracks i never heard before. This was the same phenomenon I encountered on my Dynaudio bm15a monitors and i consider it a hallmark trait of only the finest in musical reproduction. I would love to a/b the rs1i against lcd2 and then fully cement my decision but for now im sold on the grados.