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Headphoneus Supremus
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It's more practical and more fun to have multiple sets of headphones instead of multiple sets of speakers IMO
Thanks, DefQon, for your input. It is nice to see someone who has actually speak from experience rather than opinion or hearsay. It makes a night and day difference to me, but clearly it depends on what cable you use and your amp.
Just out of curiosity, is there actually a cable "within the headband"? I always assumed that the signal simply went through the steel rods of the headband and not a cable. Also, why did you use Crystal Piccolino for the AKGs and not simply some high quality mic cable like Mogami or Canare? The price of CP seems ridiculous when you compare it to the price of the cans themselves.
I very clearly hear the differences discussed here: http://forums.overclockersclub.com/index.php?showtopic=160889 but to me the improvement was not subtle. To be honest, before the re cable I was ready to upgrade these cans with something like T1s but not any more. Perhaps this is partly explained by the fact that my mod is balanced while the one discussed is not.
"So, there it is. How does it sound? Well, the K701s already sounded amazing when amped and using silver/OFC interconnects. The improvement is admittedly subtle, and hard to place any major changes, as there is not much room for improvement I guess. The bass has improved ever so slightly, and the soundstage is a tiny bit wider... the most significant change is a general one: the fine detail has opened up a bit more, so vocals and delicate percussion is reproduced with even more finesse."
The very subtle differences your hearing as you have described is because your running it in balanced mode, not due to the dual-entry termination change to the driver's over single entry.
It is not subtle and it is not just because I am running it in balanced mode. I know this because I have actually LISTENED to the cans, stock and re cabled and balanced and unbalanced after re cabling. (Yes, I can still use the cans single ended because I made an adapter cable). I am using an Audio GD NFB-6 like it says in my signature.
To tell you the truth I don't find this kind of comment: "The very subtle differences your hearing as you have described is because your running it in balanced mode, not due to the dual-entry termination change to the driver's over single entry." very helpful from someone who does not know what he is talking about.
However, I'm not a fan of 5.1-7.1 surround with center channels and woofer boxes. It just doesn't make sense to me to add more mediocre speakers to my system, as opposed to using two really nice ones. But I don't really consider those to be loud speakers anyhow.
However, I'm not a fan of 5.1-7.1 surround with center channels and woofer boxes. It just doesn't make sense to me to add more mediocre speakers to my system, as opposed to using two really nice ones. But I don't really consider those to be loud speakers anyhow.
Speakers for em are always better as long as i can use them (Neibours might complain when you keep a 16 hour long loud volume in saturday/sunday).
I have Z-5500 logitechs and HE-400. THE-400 (see waht i did there? ) sound better in detail retrival, but the Z-5500 give a better expirince over all. Note that the HE-400 are actually more expensive in EU than Z-5500.
Now, im quite sure if youd face the best HP (lets say HE-90 Orpheus or stax-009) vs about the best speakers (Bowers&wilkins Nautilus) the speakers would win hands down.
In same price range, and a room good enought, speakers. If room inadecuate, HP.
you've clearly never heard the SR-009s or the Nautilus - those are some of the worst sounding speakers in their price bracket
How about 5 or 7 nice ones? A surround setup doesnt necessarily have to be low quality. Im pretty much content with my B&W 5.0 setup.