pspivak
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I am going to reply but please note that my comments are made with the the utmost respect and just my opinion.
Ishcabible: I do not dispute your observations of the Pro's/Detox'x; they are simply different than mine. I disagree with your comment about dynamic range. To me, dynamic range is the ability to resolve the sounds from quiet to loud (to my way of thinking from ppp to fff). The Detox will play "rim shots" on Gary Wright's Dream Weaver and Blind Feeling link nothing I have heard since the Nakamichi Reference Monitors driven with McIntosh electronics at Harmony Stereo back in the mid 1970's. Presented without compression (the feeling of being squashed or limited). While this was not the "end all" in definition and transparency it was certainly dynamic. Perhaps our definitions differ but all too often headphones "run out of gas", the Detox's do not exhibit this. I have not heard Prota Pro's for almost 20 years but I recall that one of the things that I did not like about them was that they did run out of gas when pushed. What kind of mod was performed on them?
My reference headphones/IEM's are Stax SR-404's and SR-003 for electrostatic, Ultimate Ears Triple Fi's, Etymotic ER-4P and Klipsch S4 for dynamic. The Detox's are different than these and they have their place in my arsenal.
OmenWalker and LizardKing: Points well taken. Thank you. To me the musical experience is a personal one. Here is my crummy argument - If there was a perfect headphone on the market, there would only be one headphone on the market. (No, the Detox is not perfect, far from it.) My only reason for writing is that so many folks appeared to be bashing it and its performance. I use this headphone for its qualities, not its shortcomings.
Ishcabible: I do not dispute your observations of the Pro's/Detox'x; they are simply different than mine. I disagree with your comment about dynamic range. To me, dynamic range is the ability to resolve the sounds from quiet to loud (to my way of thinking from ppp to fff). The Detox will play "rim shots" on Gary Wright's Dream Weaver and Blind Feeling link nothing I have heard since the Nakamichi Reference Monitors driven with McIntosh electronics at Harmony Stereo back in the mid 1970's. Presented without compression (the feeling of being squashed or limited). While this was not the "end all" in definition and transparency it was certainly dynamic. Perhaps our definitions differ but all too often headphones "run out of gas", the Detox's do not exhibit this. I have not heard Prota Pro's for almost 20 years but I recall that one of the things that I did not like about them was that they did run out of gas when pushed. What kind of mod was performed on them?
My reference headphones/IEM's are Stax SR-404's and SR-003 for electrostatic, Ultimate Ears Triple Fi's, Etymotic ER-4P and Klipsch S4 for dynamic. The Detox's are different than these and they have their place in my arsenal.
OmenWalker and LizardKing: Points well taken. Thank you. To me the musical experience is a personal one. Here is my crummy argument - If there was a perfect headphone on the market, there would only be one headphone on the market. (No, the Detox is not perfect, far from it.) My only reason for writing is that so many folks appeared to be bashing it and its performance. I use this headphone for its qualities, not its shortcomings.