PurpleAngel
Headphoneus Supremus
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Fiio E9
Suggest to me a nice reasonably priced headphone amp to drive my 250 ohm DT990s
Fiio E9
Suggest to me a nice reasonably priced headphone amp to drive my 250 ohm DT990s
Treble's smooth and sparkly as can be for me. Anything more pronounced, especially in the lower treble, could easily be called bright. As it stand the he-400 is already a bit of bright. Are you referring to the 5khz upper midrange? The he-400s are a bit tamed down there-- the area where you typically hear the slap of drums.
A quick way to tell if you have older or newer he-400 is to take the pads off. Black magnetic structure is old, white is new.
Id say the Q701 has everything you want on that front. The AD700 might have a slight advantage at the expense of a lot of SQ loss.
The HE400 is still a work in progress, but while its stellar, I think the positioning on the Q701 is better.
But were talking about great positioning, not missing anything vs greater positioning, and not being as full bodied.
The Q701 isn't as full bodied, so its easier to focus on sounds, while the HE400 is very full bodied, and everything is more integrated.
Man with hearing how good the ad700 sounds at positional cues, the a900x must be even better, put I just can't get past their cheap wing headband. If only Audio-Technica would fix the headband, I would probably snap the headphones up in an instant.
Send them an email about it, I did.