Trounce
500+ Head-Fier
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I hate them.
Yes, you heard me.
After using them for well over 150+hours and gruelling through their shrill cymbals and sibilant voice-ruining antics, I am THROUGH with them. I spent $350CND on them, and that was far too much in the first place.
I am soon going to be receiving my first amp, via the Fixup Mini v5. I am currently playing the phones out of my Creek 5050 IA via the headphone out which sounds beautiful on my PortaPros.
I prefer listening to the Portas in nearly every single genre, save for jazz. I do not listen to jazz enough to warrant my keeping them.
The bass does not impact - I know it's there, and on occasion, I will feel it and be pleasantly surprised, but I have to manipulate my amp by raising the bass and severely lowering the treble just to get the damn vocals to stop ringing in my ears.
What I want now is this: Low, impactful bass, rolled-off treble that will show NO signs of sibilance with even the most shrill vocalists, a midrange that is obvious but won't overtake the highs and an overall ease of listen. I will not, though, spend too much on them.
I will wait to see if the amp can lower those quibbles to an extent, otherwise the phone is going. The problem is, I don't have money oozing from my pores like some people do, as I'm only a student with no income. I can afford new equipment but it comes out of my college fund (not gonna happen.)
Well, my rant is finished... sorry to anyone who bought the phones, but I know that there are a lot of people who are only glorifying these phones because 1) they have not heard any other decent phones or 2) because they want not to admit they were wrong in purchasing them. To those who truly like the phones, you must not be listening to the rock music I am.
Currently playing:
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Bob Dylan Live 1975
Jools Holland - More Friends
Incubus - Morning View
The Doves - The Last Broadcast
Radiohead - OK Computer
Those albums, ripped from CD using MPC quality 6, sound like crap. Most of my jazz albums, Michael Brecker, Oscar Peterson, etc., sound wonderful.
Trounce
Yes, you heard me.
After using them for well over 150+hours and gruelling through their shrill cymbals and sibilant voice-ruining antics, I am THROUGH with them. I spent $350CND on them, and that was far too much in the first place.
I am soon going to be receiving my first amp, via the Fixup Mini v5. I am currently playing the phones out of my Creek 5050 IA via the headphone out which sounds beautiful on my PortaPros.
I prefer listening to the Portas in nearly every single genre, save for jazz. I do not listen to jazz enough to warrant my keeping them.
The bass does not impact - I know it's there, and on occasion, I will feel it and be pleasantly surprised, but I have to manipulate my amp by raising the bass and severely lowering the treble just to get the damn vocals to stop ringing in my ears.
What I want now is this: Low, impactful bass, rolled-off treble that will show NO signs of sibilance with even the most shrill vocalists, a midrange that is obvious but won't overtake the highs and an overall ease of listen. I will not, though, spend too much on them.
I will wait to see if the amp can lower those quibbles to an extent, otherwise the phone is going. The problem is, I don't have money oozing from my pores like some people do, as I'm only a student with no income. I can afford new equipment but it comes out of my college fund (not gonna happen.)
Well, my rant is finished... sorry to anyone who bought the phones, but I know that there are a lot of people who are only glorifying these phones because 1) they have not heard any other decent phones or 2) because they want not to admit they were wrong in purchasing them. To those who truly like the phones, you must not be listening to the rock music I am.
Currently playing:
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Bob Dylan Live 1975
Jools Holland - More Friends
Incubus - Morning View
The Doves - The Last Broadcast
Radiohead - OK Computer
Those albums, ripped from CD using MPC quality 6, sound like crap. Most of my jazz albums, Michael Brecker, Oscar Peterson, etc., sound wonderful.
Trounce