Voodoo Rufus
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Hello people,
I searched around a bit last night, and wanted to gather some 2nd opinions. I will soon be getting a 60GB Iaudio X5, and all of my music is FLAC level 8 or high quality mp3 (192-320kbps). My music tastes are electric blues (SRV, Albert Cummings, Eric Clapton, Corey Stevens, Walter Trout, etc.), classical (think Vivaldi), and soundtracks (Star Wars Episode III, other John Williams work, hoping to expand this in the future).
I tend to like my loudspeaker music response flat with enough volume to feel the bass without using loudness contour. When I use headphones (Koss R/80s are the limit of my experience with decent headphones, with an external amp), I tend to prefer to boost the bass in order to compensate for the lack of 'feel'. I always felt my Koss phones were a little soft in that department. I like a lot of midrange and treble detail, but also like those areas flat in frequency response. My speaker listening is limited to Klipschorns, and my homebuilt CSS FR125S full rangers. I heard some Adire/Exodus kits up in Washington and thought those kicked butt on my music, to give you and idea of the speakers I like.
Since the X5 will cost me $350, I don't want to dump a lot on headphones, say the limit is $100 shipped. I need these to provide some isolation on aircraft (will be travelling a bit in the future), but when I'm doing general homework I don't need them to seal off the world entirely. I won't be doing a lot of mobile activity, these will be used mainly at a desk, or maybe on a Nordic-Trac. I will not have an external amp to these in the next few months, but possibly in the future for computer/gaming use.
I've narrowed the list to these:
AKG K26P - Look like decent phones, portable.
Sennheiser CX300 - Good price on newegg, can buy them at the same time as the X5, but perhaps too bass heavy?
Ultimate Ears Super.fi 3 - Nice IEMs, but a little pricey. Read they have a sibilance problem? (really dislike that sound, but little of my music has excessive amounts)
Ultimate Ears Super.fi 5 Pro (by them USED on these forums to save $) - Look very nice, but can't afford new. Perhaps overkill for me?
Thanks.
I searched around a bit last night, and wanted to gather some 2nd opinions. I will soon be getting a 60GB Iaudio X5, and all of my music is FLAC level 8 or high quality mp3 (192-320kbps). My music tastes are electric blues (SRV, Albert Cummings, Eric Clapton, Corey Stevens, Walter Trout, etc.), classical (think Vivaldi), and soundtracks (Star Wars Episode III, other John Williams work, hoping to expand this in the future).
I tend to like my loudspeaker music response flat with enough volume to feel the bass without using loudness contour. When I use headphones (Koss R/80s are the limit of my experience with decent headphones, with an external amp), I tend to prefer to boost the bass in order to compensate for the lack of 'feel'. I always felt my Koss phones were a little soft in that department. I like a lot of midrange and treble detail, but also like those areas flat in frequency response. My speaker listening is limited to Klipschorns, and my homebuilt CSS FR125S full rangers. I heard some Adire/Exodus kits up in Washington and thought those kicked butt on my music, to give you and idea of the speakers I like.
Since the X5 will cost me $350, I don't want to dump a lot on headphones, say the limit is $100 shipped. I need these to provide some isolation on aircraft (will be travelling a bit in the future), but when I'm doing general homework I don't need them to seal off the world entirely. I won't be doing a lot of mobile activity, these will be used mainly at a desk, or maybe on a Nordic-Trac. I will not have an external amp to these in the next few months, but possibly in the future for computer/gaming use.
I've narrowed the list to these:
AKG K26P - Look like decent phones, portable.
Sennheiser CX300 - Good price on newegg, can buy them at the same time as the X5, but perhaps too bass heavy?
Ultimate Ears Super.fi 3 - Nice IEMs, but a little pricey. Read they have a sibilance problem? (really dislike that sound, but little of my music has excessive amounts)
Ultimate Ears Super.fi 5 Pro (by them USED on these forums to save $) - Look very nice, but can't afford new. Perhaps overkill for me?
Thanks.
