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I think a bunch of us are waiting on a review...
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There are several
excellent reviews/comparisons on W5000 here at Headfi. I dare not put myself in that league
I will give some of my very first impression given I only had it less than 1 day:
when I compared W5000 and AD2000, I honestly put the price difference aside and tried not influenced by it at all. For a very short audition out of my Yamaha Z9 receiver's headphone section, here is what I have:
(1) Classical music, Pieter Wispelwey plays Kodaly's "Sonata for cello solo opus 8".
W5000 sounds like from an accoustically well constructed hall, soundstage is obviously wider but not as wide as AKG K701. There is a liquidity of the instruments that is hard to describe in words. Instrument separation is much clearer. Everything sound more "solid". AD2000 sounds more "airy" or a little emptiness like the recording was done in a huge empty warehouse, not echoy in any way though. a little bassy and full bodied. The airy side may be of the intrinsic open (vs. closed) design I guess ?
(2) Electronica, Delerium, Archives vol.1.
W5000's bass is super tight and fast, the impact is stronger in a sense like my head got pounded. Again wider stage and clearer instrument separation. AD2000 performances very well here as well. The bass is a little "boomy" in comparsion in a sense that each "attack" lasts longer.
(3) female vocal. Teresa Teng, the late Taiwainese star.
Oooooh, W5000 is so much sweeter here and I literally felt my heart was grabbed by her voice! ONLY now that I understand what other reviewers described "emotionally involving". All above differences apply here as well.
W5000 is a cut above AD2000 in almost everyway, at least in the music I've listened. Well AD2000 is by no means a bad phone, quite the contrary it is a GREAT phone, it is just W5000 is even greater
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