barton_stacey
New Head-Fier
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If this should be in the cables forum, please forgive me! There are so many threads around on this or similar topics that this seemed to be the most obvious place.
Bought my HD-25-1 II yesterday and have been testing them out or giving them a gentle burn-in with pink noise over the last 24 hours. Definitely a step up from my ES7s, which I've only owned for a few months. Gave up on them because of the lack of isolation, but feel the Senns are superior in every aspect so far.
Found an old pair of Senn HD480-II lying around and realised that the cable would work with the 25s, so gave them a go. Absolutely opened up the soundstage and gave the sound more warmth and bass. Someone said somewhere that the stock steel cable sounds like the sound struggles to get through compared to a copper cable, which made me laugh at the time. Now I completely understand what they mean.
As a believer in burn-in, I am not going to make a final judgement on the sound yet as I feel the bass has some way to go before getting the impact I would hope for, but I am very impressed with these, even more so with the change in cable.
So I was wondering, given that what I assume to be a fairly basic cable from the HD480 can improve / change the sound noticeably in my ears, is it worth paying that bit more for something from headphile? If so, do I go for silver or copper? I like my bass and my vocals, listen to practically every genre of modern music and run from an ipod classic > ALO Cryo-LOD > RSA Hornet-M.
Head-fi is killing me and my bank balance!!!!!!!!
Bought my HD-25-1 II yesterday and have been testing them out or giving them a gentle burn-in with pink noise over the last 24 hours. Definitely a step up from my ES7s, which I've only owned for a few months. Gave up on them because of the lack of isolation, but feel the Senns are superior in every aspect so far.
Found an old pair of Senn HD480-II lying around and realised that the cable would work with the 25s, so gave them a go. Absolutely opened up the soundstage and gave the sound more warmth and bass. Someone said somewhere that the stock steel cable sounds like the sound struggles to get through compared to a copper cable, which made me laugh at the time. Now I completely understand what they mean.
As a believer in burn-in, I am not going to make a final judgement on the sound yet as I feel the bass has some way to go before getting the impact I would hope for, but I am very impressed with these, even more so with the change in cable.
So I was wondering, given that what I assume to be a fairly basic cable from the HD480 can improve / change the sound noticeably in my ears, is it worth paying that bit more for something from headphile? If so, do I go for silver or copper? I like my bass and my vocals, listen to practically every genre of modern music and run from an ipod classic > ALO Cryo-LOD > RSA Hornet-M.
Head-fi is killing me and my bank balance!!!!!!!!