tdockweiler
Headphoneus Supremus
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Do you remember the inside of the box you had? Was the headphone inside a clear plastic shell or a white shell with a foam piece attached to the box flap? My best pair had the clear plastic shell.
Yours sounds EXACTLY like the first pair I had. Do you have a guitar center in your city? If so you should see if you can demo other pairs to see if there are any differences. Maybe sometime I can loan you mine for comparison.
The first was definitely bass light for me, but not this pair. I don't know if I had a lemon, KRK made silent improvements or theres manufacturing differences.
With games, my 8400 has more treble than even my Q701. It's only a problem for me mostly in music that's very poorly mastered or just those random garbage tracks.
I wonder what 6400 pads would sound like on the 8400. I don't know why anyone would want to do that, but it might decrease the treble.
I've found the treble on the 6400 and 8400 quite similar. A little less on the 6400, but just barely.
I definitely think the 8400 has more "meat on it's bones" compared to the 6400. You notice this almost immediately in Fallout 3 and Skyrim.
I accidentally used my 6400 during gaming thinking it was the 8400 and my reaction was like "what just happened?" everything sounded so much thinner and different. Even the low-bass was just not as present.
I remember people saying the 8400 was fuller sounding and more musical and at first I thought they were nuts (now I don't!). I still think the 6400 has more mid-bass and more forward sounding mids (less forward upper mids).
I don't know how, but the 8400's soundstage seems larger too. Everything on the 6400 is more closed in a tad. Well, in comparison to my 8400.
Oh yeah, what's interesting is that my first 8400 had very relaxed mids. How do you have light bass, relaxed mids and tons of treble? No idea...they were almost at the point of being recessed. Definitely not on this pair.
If you read VERY early reviews there is this one guy who claimed the 8400 had scooped out mids
Probably the version I had, but not THAT bad.
I preferred the 6400 by far until I heard my third 8400. Don't ask me why this happened.
The soundstage of my first pair was quite pathetic too. The soundstage on this pair is so good that it's perfect for even classical.
Yo,
Good review. I use my KRK KNS-8400 with my Playstation Vita and it works well for this. I also use my T5p with the Vita as it's more efficient.
I have issues with my 8400 at times such as the treble being pretty hot. I don't have a treble sensitivity at all so it's not irritating, but sometimes the treble itself kills the song. This headphone can be bright, brighter than the 250Ohm DT770 in fact. This brightness can butcher music, at least for me, and I like bright headphones!
If I had to describe the 8400 it would be bright, bass lite, and slightly shallow sounding. It's not a bad headphone but it really doesn't have enough meat on it's bones to satisfy me at times.
Do you remember the inside of the box you had? Was the headphone inside a clear plastic shell or a white shell with a foam piece attached to the box flap? My best pair had the clear plastic shell.
Yours sounds EXACTLY like the first pair I had. Do you have a guitar center in your city? If so you should see if you can demo other pairs to see if there are any differences. Maybe sometime I can loan you mine for comparison.
The first was definitely bass light for me, but not this pair. I don't know if I had a lemon, KRK made silent improvements or theres manufacturing differences.
With games, my 8400 has more treble than even my Q701. It's only a problem for me mostly in music that's very poorly mastered or just those random garbage tracks.
I wonder what 6400 pads would sound like on the 8400. I don't know why anyone would want to do that, but it might decrease the treble.
I've found the treble on the 6400 and 8400 quite similar. A little less on the 6400, but just barely.
I definitely think the 8400 has more "meat on it's bones" compared to the 6400. You notice this almost immediately in Fallout 3 and Skyrim.
I accidentally used my 6400 during gaming thinking it was the 8400 and my reaction was like "what just happened?" everything sounded so much thinner and different. Even the low-bass was just not as present.
I remember people saying the 8400 was fuller sounding and more musical and at first I thought they were nuts (now I don't!). I still think the 6400 has more mid-bass and more forward sounding mids (less forward upper mids).
I don't know how, but the 8400's soundstage seems larger too. Everything on the 6400 is more closed in a tad. Well, in comparison to my 8400.
Oh yeah, what's interesting is that my first 8400 had very relaxed mids. How do you have light bass, relaxed mids and tons of treble? No idea...they were almost at the point of being recessed. Definitely not on this pair.
If you read VERY early reviews there is this one guy who claimed the 8400 had scooped out mids
I preferred the 6400 by far until I heard my third 8400. Don't ask me why this happened.
The soundstage of my first pair was quite pathetic too. The soundstage on this pair is so good that it's perfect for even classical.