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Hi all,
Short story version
For those who don't like reading a thread somewhat representing a million page document, the short story is $600-700 budget looking for deep,textured yet tight bass with liquid and full bodied mids and crisp nicely rolled off highs.
The Narrative
I haven't been posting here regularly in years but I am back and undecided on what I should do after all this time! This may be a confusing post to reply to but answering or commenting any part of it will be a great help! A word of warning is that I'm no good with how to articulate sound through words but I'll try my best!
A bit of background is that I used to own a pair of A900LTD's and with the setup I had it was the end of the road, unfortunately they were stolen about 6 months ago and I'm not really quite happy with the street style noise cancelling sony's I have. I also do not have the receiver/source I had in my sig unfortunately. So keeping reading and assume I'm starting afresh.
Currently I have a pair of broken PX100s and KSC75's that need resoldering, no idea how to do this but i'll post some pictures later or perhaps move off to the DIY forum for that particular issue. I mention this because I consider fixing these an option rather than purchase a big new shiny headphone.
So here's where I need your help
Currently in a tight spot with the wallet but I am looking to find something that I can listen to whilst being content. Currently I only have an x-fi xtrememusic sound card and an E5 fiio portable amp which i am pretty happy with! If I were to open my wallet for a pair of new headphones I'm looking to spend about $6-700 (AUD) although I would be quite happy to not try to squeeze every cent out of the budget or avoid it if I could. That being said I also am happy to splurge on something that make me rest easy
I'll give a bit of detail on the type of sound I'm looking for:
- Starting off with the highs, I'd prefer them to be sparkly, crisp and clear but not something that'd feel like it'd make me deaf at a reasonably high volume (I don't think many headphones would do this anyway) so they would be rolled off I'd assume but not dull .
- Mid's are important! I absolutely love the sound of a female voice being full bodied when listening to a track with singing, I'd like the mids to be forward while obviously not pushing everything out of the way. I'd also not to have the sound of a male voice overpowering everything else so I'd say balance with a perhaps peak in the higher mid area? I have no idea in explaining that bit lol.
- Bass! Alright ideally I'm looking for something that'd have the bass of an L3000 but thats probably not very realistic I'd like bass to be present, textured, deep, present and at the same time I'd like it to have impact and be snappy too. I realise I may be contradicting myself in asking for something airy and tight yet being very deep and present, it's worth a shot though.
I listen to a lot of genre's, it mostly ranges from everything between acoustic guitar, vocal/chillout trance, classical, alternative rock, hardstyle, house, folk and jpop.
The sound signature I am after is something with a bit of energy, I'd love the headphone to fullfill the above requirements while being fast, snappy, dynamic while being able to really extend deep down and bring out resonance in say a song such as Angel by Massive Attack. Sennheisers tend to not follow the signature I'm after, having listened to recabled 650's and a HE60 setup although they are both extremely good sounding with the right equipment it is not what I'm after
. I preferred the O2's sound over any senns that I have heard.
After a few days reading of all the new headphones out that I previously never heard of (A2000X, W1000X, Ti's D's X's everywhere!) Here's what I'm considering:
AD2000
W1000X
A900Ti
D7000/5000
+
Very open to suggestions!
and perhaps I should include a DAC/amp in my budget. If I could replicate the sound my my previous receiver then I would be very happy! I'd say there was a very warm/full bodied amp in it. However I am illiterate in these matters
A side note is that I will use this headphones for gaming but any headphone should be able to reproduce generic gaming sounds quite well, positioning is important though.
Looking forward for any comments, musings, thoughts, break throughs or suggestions! Thanks for bearing with me and reading through this!
Short story version
For those who don't like reading a thread somewhat representing a million page document, the short story is $600-700 budget looking for deep,textured yet tight bass with liquid and full bodied mids and crisp nicely rolled off highs.
The Narrative
I haven't been posting here regularly in years but I am back and undecided on what I should do after all this time! This may be a confusing post to reply to but answering or commenting any part of it will be a great help! A word of warning is that I'm no good with how to articulate sound through words but I'll try my best!
A bit of background is that I used to own a pair of A900LTD's and with the setup I had it was the end of the road, unfortunately they were stolen about 6 months ago and I'm not really quite happy with the street style noise cancelling sony's I have. I also do not have the receiver/source I had in my sig unfortunately. So keeping reading and assume I'm starting afresh.
Currently I have a pair of broken PX100s and KSC75's that need resoldering, no idea how to do this but i'll post some pictures later or perhaps move off to the DIY forum for that particular issue. I mention this because I consider fixing these an option rather than purchase a big new shiny headphone.
So here's where I need your help
Currently in a tight spot with the wallet but I am looking to find something that I can listen to whilst being content. Currently I only have an x-fi xtrememusic sound card and an E5 fiio portable amp which i am pretty happy with! If I were to open my wallet for a pair of new headphones I'm looking to spend about $6-700 (AUD) although I would be quite happy to not try to squeeze every cent out of the budget or avoid it if I could. That being said I also am happy to splurge on something that make me rest easy
I'll give a bit of detail on the type of sound I'm looking for:
- Starting off with the highs, I'd prefer them to be sparkly, crisp and clear but not something that'd feel like it'd make me deaf at a reasonably high volume (I don't think many headphones would do this anyway) so they would be rolled off I'd assume but not dull .
- Mid's are important! I absolutely love the sound of a female voice being full bodied when listening to a track with singing, I'd like the mids to be forward while obviously not pushing everything out of the way. I'd also not to have the sound of a male voice overpowering everything else so I'd say balance with a perhaps peak in the higher mid area? I have no idea in explaining that bit lol.
- Bass! Alright ideally I'm looking for something that'd have the bass of an L3000 but thats probably not very realistic I'd like bass to be present, textured, deep, present and at the same time I'd like it to have impact and be snappy too. I realise I may be contradicting myself in asking for something airy and tight yet being very deep and present, it's worth a shot though.
I listen to a lot of genre's, it mostly ranges from everything between acoustic guitar, vocal/chillout trance, classical, alternative rock, hardstyle, house, folk and jpop.
The sound signature I am after is something with a bit of energy, I'd love the headphone to fullfill the above requirements while being fast, snappy, dynamic while being able to really extend deep down and bring out resonance in say a song such as Angel by Massive Attack. Sennheisers tend to not follow the signature I'm after, having listened to recabled 650's and a HE60 setup although they are both extremely good sounding with the right equipment it is not what I'm after
After a few days reading of all the new headphones out that I previously never heard of (A2000X, W1000X, Ti's D's X's everywhere!) Here's what I'm considering:
AD2000
W1000X
A900Ti
D7000/5000
+
Very open to suggestions!
and perhaps I should include a DAC/amp in my budget. If I could replicate the sound my my previous receiver then I would be very happy! I'd say there was a very warm/full bodied amp in it. However I am illiterate in these matters
A side note is that I will use this headphones for gaming but any headphone should be able to reproduce generic gaming sounds quite well, positioning is important though.
Looking forward for any comments, musings, thoughts, break throughs or suggestions! Thanks for bearing with me and reading through this!