Schizorabbit
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I have noticed that there have been quite a few posts regarding questions of quality regarding the Koss PRO series, so I thought I'd offer a review.
Musical Selections: Dredg - Same Lo' Road (Bass), Of The Room (Distortion), Brushstroke: An Elephant In The Delta Waves (Acoustic), Walk In The Pack (Piano/Violin)
(These selections offer a general overview of sound in that each of them relies on one of many traditional elements in modern music.)
Beck - Round The Bend
(I utilize this piece in order to tell how well a set of cans handles subtle change and soft/slow chord progression
Duke Ellington - Caravan
(Quite simply one of the hardest selections for any headphone to convey accuratley, simply because of the awkward choice in key and chords, which often leads a set of headphones to exagerate high end treble)
Now the headphones:
These headphones performed solidly when I put them to the task of bringing out the acoustic sound conveyed in Dredg's Brushstroke: piece, and might I say handled it rather beautifully. But that was where their pinnacle stood and as for the rest it was a dreary blur. These headphones (though excellent for blocking out exterior noise) don't do bass well, they make it sound as if your listening to the bass player through a wall, which made Beck's - Round the Bend, sound completly boring and emotion void. It also stripped the clarity of Dredg's - Same Ol' Road and took it from a neatly orginized and meticulously punctuated peice into that mess of a room you can never seem to find your keys in. The Koss headphones did the same thing to the distortion present in Dredg's - Of The Room, completley muddled, the piece actually sounded clearer on my Bose 701 speakers! The cans simply weren't able to define one line of distortion from the next, taking a somewhat complicated stream and turning it into a mainstream sounding simplistic bore. And as for Duke Ellington's - Caravan, I'm not even going to go there, the first chord was just painful, and had to turn my ears away.
Summary:
Whenever these headphones are presented with two distinctly different sounds, it comes through very well, which is why it was able to handle any acoustic piece I threw at it (as well as piano) , and handle it very well. But when you start going into sounds where in there may not be a distinct shift in notes or chords, it tends to blur and subtract energy from the music. Hence the confusion among bass and distortion.
Highs: Blocks out noise very well. Handles Low-Mid treble very well, Hi treble pretty well (minus The Dukes Caravan).
Lows: Clarity in Bass, Distortion, and Overlapping Melody and Bass Lines.
Musical Selections: Dredg - Same Lo' Road (Bass), Of The Room (Distortion), Brushstroke: An Elephant In The Delta Waves (Acoustic), Walk In The Pack (Piano/Violin)
(These selections offer a general overview of sound in that each of them relies on one of many traditional elements in modern music.)
Beck - Round The Bend
(I utilize this piece in order to tell how well a set of cans handles subtle change and soft/slow chord progression
Duke Ellington - Caravan
(Quite simply one of the hardest selections for any headphone to convey accuratley, simply because of the awkward choice in key and chords, which often leads a set of headphones to exagerate high end treble)
Now the headphones:
These headphones performed solidly when I put them to the task of bringing out the acoustic sound conveyed in Dredg's Brushstroke: piece, and might I say handled it rather beautifully. But that was where their pinnacle stood and as for the rest it was a dreary blur. These headphones (though excellent for blocking out exterior noise) don't do bass well, they make it sound as if your listening to the bass player through a wall, which made Beck's - Round the Bend, sound completly boring and emotion void. It also stripped the clarity of Dredg's - Same Ol' Road and took it from a neatly orginized and meticulously punctuated peice into that mess of a room you can never seem to find your keys in. The Koss headphones did the same thing to the distortion present in Dredg's - Of The Room, completley muddled, the piece actually sounded clearer on my Bose 701 speakers! The cans simply weren't able to define one line of distortion from the next, taking a somewhat complicated stream and turning it into a mainstream sounding simplistic bore. And as for Duke Ellington's - Caravan, I'm not even going to go there, the first chord was just painful, and had to turn my ears away.
Summary:
Whenever these headphones are presented with two distinctly different sounds, it comes through very well, which is why it was able to handle any acoustic piece I threw at it (as well as piano) , and handle it very well. But when you start going into sounds where in there may not be a distinct shift in notes or chords, it tends to blur and subtract energy from the music. Hence the confusion among bass and distortion.
Highs: Blocks out noise very well. Handles Low-Mid treble very well, Hi treble pretty well (minus The Dukes Caravan).
Lows: Clarity in Bass, Distortion, and Overlapping Melody and Bass Lines.
