Nik
Headphoneus Supremus
Nothing can touch
yes !!!
I never had a lot of cans and amps like this time… I always had just one headphones but this time I used many cans and amps to do a relaxed and long comparison… I spent a lot of time for this.
I think that after all the setups I had in my life, the K1000/Air Tight is the very best in any way and aspects. Now I can confirm this after many comparative tests with cans, amps and speakers.
These are the headphones I’m using: K701, W5000, DX 1000, GS 1000, these are the amps Yamamoto and PS Audio, BAT and Air Tight (open and closed cans, tube, hybrid and SS amps). The speakers are a pair of excellent monitor ProAc Response one SC. Cables are TOP class of Shunyata and Acrolink.
I find a very good setup the GS1000/Yamamoto, the K701/PS Audio, the W5000/Yamamoto in order of preference… the DX 1000 is something so different respect to any traditional cans that I can’t tell you so much… I do not like them a lot, this is sure.
I have used my reference setup to help me to find the “second one”, a less expensive setup at a near level of quality… I’d think to the GS1000/Yamamoto setup. I recommend this, very musical, detailed and rich of soundstage and openness.
The K1000 is the king of all the setups experimented… very impressive!!! I never done many direct comparison as this time, no any cans or speaker I adopted can touch to the level of this setup. I wrote that even the BAT integrate is excellent for the K1000, but with the Air Tight and some new tubes adopted, the setup is the very best. Incredible to see as the bass of the K1000 is also better of all the closed cans (W5000 that do not has a excellent bass…, better than the DX 1000 bass, this cans is a bass monster…). The bass of the K1000 is even better than the GS1000 bass, I was very surprised of this…
K1000/Air Tight is a perfect synergy, I can tell this for sure, the Anacondas power cords are also perfect matched with the K1000 signature sound, WE 300B the third synergy for the K1000… Thinking to all the setups I had (and they are A LOT !!!), I can’t remember another sound like this.
I wrote this just as an help for those want to have a excellent setup (not expensive as the K1000/Air Tight), but with very, very good result… GS 1000/Yamamoto could be the first, K701 PS Audio another and W5000/Yamamoto another one.
Just my two cents…
Nik
(Sorry if I'll do not replay to many questions...)
I never had a lot of cans and amps like this time… I always had just one headphones but this time I used many cans and amps to do a relaxed and long comparison… I spent a lot of time for this.
I think that after all the setups I had in my life, the K1000/Air Tight is the very best in any way and aspects. Now I can confirm this after many comparative tests with cans, amps and speakers.
These are the headphones I’m using: K701, W5000, DX 1000, GS 1000, these are the amps Yamamoto and PS Audio, BAT and Air Tight (open and closed cans, tube, hybrid and SS amps). The speakers are a pair of excellent monitor ProAc Response one SC. Cables are TOP class of Shunyata and Acrolink.
I find a very good setup the GS1000/Yamamoto, the K701/PS Audio, the W5000/Yamamoto in order of preference… the DX 1000 is something so different respect to any traditional cans that I can’t tell you so much… I do not like them a lot, this is sure.
I have used my reference setup to help me to find the “second one”, a less expensive setup at a near level of quality… I’d think to the GS1000/Yamamoto setup. I recommend this, very musical, detailed and rich of soundstage and openness.
The K1000 is the king of all the setups experimented… very impressive!!! I never done many direct comparison as this time, no any cans or speaker I adopted can touch to the level of this setup. I wrote that even the BAT integrate is excellent for the K1000, but with the Air Tight and some new tubes adopted, the setup is the very best. Incredible to see as the bass of the K1000 is also better of all the closed cans (W5000 that do not has a excellent bass…, better than the DX 1000 bass, this cans is a bass monster…). The bass of the K1000 is even better than the GS1000 bass, I was very surprised of this…
K1000/Air Tight is a perfect synergy, I can tell this for sure, the Anacondas power cords are also perfect matched with the K1000 signature sound, WE 300B the third synergy for the K1000… Thinking to all the setups I had (and they are A LOT !!!), I can’t remember another sound like this.
I wrote this just as an help for those want to have a excellent setup (not expensive as the K1000/Air Tight), but with very, very good result… GS 1000/Yamamoto could be the first, K701 PS Audio another and W5000/Yamamoto another one.
Just my two cents…
Nik
(Sorry if I'll do not replay to many questions...)