mosi
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After doing the plunge and picking up a new pair of Klipsch Image (X10) I wanted to share my thoughts on those little ones. I already have them for some months and they do still amaze me.
I went looking for new cans after I found my ER-6 to be way too bass shy for my tastes. In between I used a pair of Beyer DT990 @32Ohm that I still like but that's definitely too open for stuff like the occasional lan-party.
So as you might have guessed I'm sort of a basshead. Every building needs a good foundation and the same goes for music! If the bass is lacking there's something missing and that annoys the crap out of me.
Comfort:
I don't know what on earth they used for the flanges but the material is great! About half an hour after I inserted my Ety's the itching in my ears would start. I can wear the Klipsch for hours without irritations so they're really great.
They include three sizes of single-flange eartips and two sizes of bi-flange eartips. Coming from a perfect seal on my ER-6 with their bi-flanges I use the medium sized single flanges and have also had a good seal with the large bi-flanges from Klipsch.
Microphonics:
No complaints here. The cable is certainly well chosen and again compared to the ER-6 has WAY less microphonics. I'd still not recommend them for workout use unless you manage to wear the cable behind your ears. Also there was another user recently who had problems with the rubber part of the phones splitting apart. He used them for workouts so I'd probably rather not.
Sound Quality:
First of all, I've mostly listened to these directly from the headphone out of an Asus Xonar D2 set to about 10-20% Volume. Anything else gets too loud for my tastes. I normally use 256VBR encoded mp3's but to be honest can't really distinguish those from 128CBR. I just don't hear any difference, beats me why.
Genre-wise I've tried most of my stuff ranging from Enya, Kitaro, Madonna up to Dragonforce. Right now I'm listening to some Clannad as its pretty early and I can't sleep anymore.
from the Describing Headphones Glossary I'd say the following matches the Images best.
Con's:
tend to be sibilant
Pro's:
Bassy even in the Sub-Bass Range
Tight
very Detailed
good Low-Level Detail
My DT990 go a tiny wee deeper in bass but these here are awesome. The only thing I can hold against the Klipsch is that they tend to be sibilant at times. Mostly I hear it with stuff like Madonna singing but it's still ok for my taste.
Soundstage:
The soundstage is definitely between your ears but in that little empty space a nice minitature stage unfolds so I've got no complaints here.
Other stuff:
For the followers of the church of burn-in: my ears were burnt in on these for about 50-100 hours till now
Out of some reason the Headphone out of my Receiver at home (Marantz SR7500) produces audible noise with these here. I don't know why but neither my onboard soundcard nor my Xonar card do that. I don't use them much at home though so I don't really care about that.
Final thought: hell yeah!
I went looking for new cans after I found my ER-6 to be way too bass shy for my tastes. In between I used a pair of Beyer DT990 @32Ohm that I still like but that's definitely too open for stuff like the occasional lan-party.
So as you might have guessed I'm sort of a basshead. Every building needs a good foundation and the same goes for music! If the bass is lacking there's something missing and that annoys the crap out of me.
Comfort:
I don't know what on earth they used for the flanges but the material is great! About half an hour after I inserted my Ety's the itching in my ears would start. I can wear the Klipsch for hours without irritations so they're really great.
They include three sizes of single-flange eartips and two sizes of bi-flange eartips. Coming from a perfect seal on my ER-6 with their bi-flanges I use the medium sized single flanges and have also had a good seal with the large bi-flanges from Klipsch.
Microphonics:
No complaints here. The cable is certainly well chosen and again compared to the ER-6 has WAY less microphonics. I'd still not recommend them for workout use unless you manage to wear the cable behind your ears. Also there was another user recently who had problems with the rubber part of the phones splitting apart. He used them for workouts so I'd probably rather not.
Sound Quality:
First of all, I've mostly listened to these directly from the headphone out of an Asus Xonar D2 set to about 10-20% Volume. Anything else gets too loud for my tastes. I normally use 256VBR encoded mp3's but to be honest can't really distinguish those from 128CBR. I just don't hear any difference, beats me why.
Genre-wise I've tried most of my stuff ranging from Enya, Kitaro, Madonna up to Dragonforce. Right now I'm listening to some Clannad as its pretty early and I can't sleep anymore.
from the Describing Headphones Glossary I'd say the following matches the Images best.
Con's:
tend to be sibilant
Pro's:
Bassy even in the Sub-Bass Range
Tight
very Detailed
good Low-Level Detail
My DT990 go a tiny wee deeper in bass but these here are awesome. The only thing I can hold against the Klipsch is that they tend to be sibilant at times. Mostly I hear it with stuff like Madonna singing but it's still ok for my taste.
Soundstage:
The soundstage is definitely between your ears but in that little empty space a nice minitature stage unfolds so I've got no complaints here.
Other stuff:
For the followers of the church of burn-in: my ears were burnt in on these for about 50-100 hours till now
Out of some reason the Headphone out of my Receiver at home (Marantz SR7500) produces audible noise with these here. I don't know why but neither my onboard soundcard nor my Xonar card do that. I don't use them much at home though so I don't really care about that.
Final thought: hell yeah!
