stuck limo
Formerly with Light Harmonic/LH Labs
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Does anyone know of a good alternative bag to use in place of the official ($150) Koss leather bag? Something like a camera bag...
Hey, @stuck limo-didn't know you had the 950...how do you like it?
Cool-I have one, used to split time between the Hifiman 560 and the Koss for over ears. Then I got the Hifiman 1000, the other 2 got very little listening time after that. And, then I just started listening mostly to in ears...
I would have bought the Stax but I felt, while technically impressive, was not engaging enough for me. I may go back to it one day but right now I'm more interested in the 950 which, to my recollection, sounds like-ish my beloved Senn 600. We'll see.
You think the 950 sounds like the HD600? I owned both (just sold my 600) but I didn't think they sounded similar at all.
@stuck limo Fair enough. The only recommendation I have other than vesper pads (which you have) is a better amp. I think the Koss amp is good if you listen at low to medium volumes but once you start to crank the volume this amp starts to fall apart. (anything past 12 o'clock. I think right at 1 it just goes to hell.) My Stax amp was a decent improvement and then my Mjolnir really is a BIG improvement. I can go as loud as I want and the headphones just take it. Love this amp.
In electrostatics closed back ones are rare! Koss made several models in the 60’s and 70’s that were a closed design. All of those models used an energizer that needed to be hooked to an external amp. They also made an ESP 950 model for use in MRI labs these are rare. Stay made one a while back again rare. If you include iem phones, Shure has a current sealed iem.I love the clear and fast details on my koss
I'm looking for closed-back headphones that have the same sound quality of koss, I know it's difficult I mean not the same as koss 100 percent but the closest one
Instead of gluing the volume knobs together invest in more Schiit. Use a Sys as volume control and never touch the Koss again.I had a pair arrive from Drop recently. It's been a while since I checked out a relatively inexpensive 'stat rig. I noticed that the PSU is 9V/1A, so I grabbed a spare random linear (I think) PSU with those specs (which happened to be one for an old Audio-gd Digital Interface) and it pushed the SQ up a bit.
It's a nice pairing with the new Bifrost 2, but sounds good even with the Modi Multibit. The only problem is that I am tempted to put a blob of glue on the volume control, as it is a split-channel one that is hard to keep aligned when turning, though there are marks.