[m3t4lm4n222]

Should I be using high gain or low gain with my Magni 2 and the M1060? 

 

[Meduza]

I'm glad someone else is as pleased as I was.  Get the Audeze pads and do the back driver paper towel mod and you might throw out your HE-500.  I sold mine and this is the better headphone now.

Still love my HE500...

 

[luvmusik]

@ebann
 
Thanks for the 50 hour burn-in point info.
 
Good to know this, at when they level off (and much easier than mega burn-in needed for biocellulose dynamics !).
 
It's a plus that planars respond quickly.
 
At 16 hours running time now, so have more to go.
 
Thank you.

 

[dephcon05]

  Should I be using high gain or low gain with my Magni 2 and the M1060? 

 
I'd recommend low, I've got mine on low gain for finer control of the volume at lower levels. To me, high gain sounds kind blown out at the top end when you start getting to the 11 o'clock position on the magni 2.

 

[m3t4lm4n222]

   
I'd recommend low, I've got mine on low gain for finer control of the volume at lower levels. To me, high gain sounds kind blown out at the top end when you start getting to the 11 o'clock position on the magni 2.

Sweet, thanks. I've been using them on low, just wasn't sure.   
 
As time is going on I am liking the sound more and more, however, the sound leak is already proving to be an issue. It may unfortunately be an issue that's going to make me either sell or return them as ridiculous as it sounds. 
 
Now... I completely understand the concept of open headphones. I've owned several pairs of open ended headphones.. but I have never owned a pair that leaks this much sound. They leak so much sound that when I play a song, set the headphones on my headphone stand and walk out of my room and into the living room, I can audibly hear them as if I am using speakers. 
 
I live with my grandparents, so you'd think with their age and degraded hearing it would be less of an issue, but they're the small town conservative christian type and their heart simply can't handle the type of music I listen to. Plus they have super sonic hearing at night for some reason. 
 
If anybody is interested in M1060's and wants them before they restock mid April, PM me. You've got to be US48, be able to use PayPal. I'd just be looking to get retail price + shipping. Probably somewhere around $315. Would be shipped via USPS from WA State. 

 

[cskippy]

I've always found high gain to sound a little more forward on Schiit amps for some reason.  Sometimes it can seem like it offers better control, or a more ethereal sound but I sometimes find it more fatiguing.  

 

[cskippy]

  Sweet, thanks. I've been using them on low, just wasn't sure.   
 
As time is going on I am liking the sound more and more, however, the sound leak is already proving to be an issue. It may unfortunately be an issue that's going to make me either sell or return them as ridiculous as it sounds. 
 
Now... I completely understand the concept of open headphones. I've owned several pairs of open ended headphones.. but I have never owned a pair that leaks this much sound. They leak so much sound that when I play a song, set the headphones on my headphone stand and walk out of my room and into the living room, I can audibly hear them as if I am using speakers. 
 
I live with my grandparents, so you'd think with their age and degraded hearing it would be less of an issue, but they're the small town conservative christian type and their heart simply can't handle the type of music I listen to. Plus they have super sonic hearing at night for some reason. 
 
If anybody is interested in M1060's and wants them before they restock mid April, PM me. You've got to be US48, be able to use PayPal. I'd just be looking to get retail price + shipping. Probably somewhere around $315. Would be shipped via USPS from WA State. 

Planar magnetics do that.  The drivers emanate sound from both sides as the diaphragm is being pulled back and forth so it's moving air on both sides.  Only option would be to close the door or yeah, unfortunately return or sell them.

 

[m3t4lm4n222]

  Planar magnetics do that.  The drivers emanate sound from both sides as the diaphragm is being pulled back and forth so it's moving air on both sides.  Only option would be to close the door or yeah, unfortunately return or sell them.

That actually makes a lot of sense lol. That's probably why you don't see a lot of closed planar headphones. 
 
My door is closed, but I live in a manufactured home with some thin walls. 
 
I really really like they way they sound, but the leakage...I don't know :'(

 

[cskippy]

Adding the toilet paper or paper towel to the outside will dampen the sound, but not by much.  Unless you're listening at really loud levels they should just sound like a tv is on at low volume in that room.  If they're still too loud there is always the MrSpeakers Aeon which is supposed to be excellent and is a closed planar magnetic.

 

[tgaguirre]

  That actually makes a lot of sense lol. That's probably why you don't see a lot of closed planar headphones. 
 
My door is closed, but I live in a manufactured home with some thin walls. 
 
I really really like they way they sound, but the leakage...I don't know :'(

 
True, planar magnetics have lots of leakage because the sound exits symmetrically out the back of the driver.  
 
On the other hand, maybe you shouldn't turn the volume quite up so much because if its so loud that it will disturb your grandparents in another room, think what it might be doing to your eardrums.

 

[m3t4lm4n222]

   
True, planar magnetics have lots of leakage because the sound exits symmetrically out the back of the driver.  
 
On the other hand, maybe you shouldn't turn the volume quite up so much because if its so loud that it will disturb your grandparents in another room, think what it might be doing to your eardrums.

It's not really even that I am listening to the music at an obnoxiously loud level. My amp isn't even at 12 o clock on low-gain with the volume of my source often at half or 3/4 volume. I just live in an cheap, small manufactured home. Thin walls, cheap doors, etc. I mean, I haven't gotten any complaints, so I may just be being paranoid, but I know whoever walks in the room can hear anything going through the headphones. And no, I am not using them to watch pornography lol. Just music that they'll have a hard time appreciating.  

 

[cskippy]

I've been there.  I remember when I got my first planar an HE-500, and I had my desk in my Dad's office, so we were only 4 feet apart.  At first I would listen at really low volumes and always be self conscious about my music.  After a while he got used to it and it didn't seem awkward anymore.  

 

[FunctionalDoc]

Has anyone tried a stard MMCX IEM cable and has it worked just fine or does it require a specail setup? I considering getting a balanced cable made for these asuming I going to keep them ?
 
Impact Audio is asking me that questionabout if it just for the 1060"s  or IEM's. I would really prefer to get cable that would work on both .
 
Is there any sound difference if you have tested them vs the stock cable? 

 

[cskippy]

Just hooked up my Shure SE215 cable.  Works just fine.  Hahaha, it was actually harder to pull out than stock cable...go figure!

 

[manny49]

Unfortunately for me, my set of M1060 has started cracking at where the headband system enters the earcups on both sides after 2 days. It's a shame that I have to send these back and will probably end up losing the £70 import duty I paid for them.