benjamind
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When listening to fully burned in Proline 750 headphones with a rudistor amplifier I must say they did NOT sound like headphones.
They sound more like being in a room with large speakers that extend all the way down to 13Hz. The low mids didn't emphasise, but everything else was slightly more forward, especially the deep bass. The sort of bass you could feel in your chest. For a headphone the bass certainly has a lot of slam and impact, I swear I could feel the bass in my entire body even though I was only listening to headphones.
If there is any "mud" coming from these "headphones" it must be a problem with the recording. I've listened to plenty of reference bass tracks on these and the bass is very deep, tight and spot on. Subwoofer bass feels like a subwoofer and distorted synth basses sound absolutely wicked.
I've listened to headphones all my life, and none of the ones I've heard have come close to the Ultrasones in their reproduction of a realistic width and depth and coherence of a soundstage, short of decent loudspeakers that is, but with loudspeakers you have to deal with room issues. With these there are no room issues, the sound is not coloured by the room, but rather by your ears and of course the headphones (no headphones are perfect, but these 750s come very very close and leave me wondering if the 2500s are the same or better or worse...I'm still planning on trying the 2500s. As it turns out my friend (who has the 750s that I listened to, the ones that were fully burned in unlike my own 750s which I foolishly sold, also has the 2500s and the 2200s (the ones with the gold coloured earpads) but hasn't used either of them as much as the 750s so I'll give them a test run later during the week if I can).
Ben
They sound more like being in a room with large speakers that extend all the way down to 13Hz. The low mids didn't emphasise, but everything else was slightly more forward, especially the deep bass. The sort of bass you could feel in your chest. For a headphone the bass certainly has a lot of slam and impact, I swear I could feel the bass in my entire body even though I was only listening to headphones.
If there is any "mud" coming from these "headphones" it must be a problem with the recording. I've listened to plenty of reference bass tracks on these and the bass is very deep, tight and spot on. Subwoofer bass feels like a subwoofer and distorted synth basses sound absolutely wicked.
I've listened to headphones all my life, and none of the ones I've heard have come close to the Ultrasones in their reproduction of a realistic width and depth and coherence of a soundstage, short of decent loudspeakers that is, but with loudspeakers you have to deal with room issues. With these there are no room issues, the sound is not coloured by the room, but rather by your ears and of course the headphones (no headphones are perfect, but these 750s come very very close and leave me wondering if the 2500s are the same or better or worse...I'm still planning on trying the 2500s. As it turns out my friend (who has the 750s that I listened to, the ones that were fully burned in unlike my own 750s which I foolishly sold, also has the 2500s and the 2200s (the ones with the gold coloured earpads) but hasn't used either of them as much as the 750s so I'll give them a test run later during the week if I can).
Ben
