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Yes, I am excited to receive the K501s and try them for myself. I have been interested in them for years since they have such a reputation around here for classical, and I will be be happy to see for myself. Also, as has been said, they are very affordable, so if I love them, they'll be a real bargain, if not, I can easily resell them or keep them for a pretty small loss.
ting.mike: Like I said, The GS1000 does a lot right, and has a lot of strengths when it comes to classical music. But it's a fact it has a canyon shaped frequency response. I don't know how you can say they are neutral. Because of this, with many recordings (mostly full orchestral), the timbre is very off, with thin mids and piercing highs. They are superb for chamber music, string quartet, small-scale vocal music, but to me, they are not well suited to symphonic music because the full orchestra uses the entire frequency spectrum all at once and clearly reveals the GS1000s' weird response curve. It's a shame too, because the soundstage, clarity, and imaging can do wonders for symphonic music, but the sucked out mids usually kill it for me.
AmanGeorge: I like my K702s very much, and they are one of my most-used cans. I think that even people who don't care for them are willing to admit that they beat most other phones on the market as far as presenting a neutral sound. However, they have a couple big issues that prevent me from considering them as ideal. First, the bass is too recessed. It just is. Yes, it's tight, and tuneful, and natural, and textured, and extended, but it needs about 3 more dB in relation to the mids and highs. The other problem is the strange upper-mid response that causes strings instruments especially to sound slightly nasal. I don't think it's as extreme as some others do, but it is there, and if you listen to them in comparison the the DT880s, which have a closer overall signature to the K702s than anything else I have, you can clearly hear it. If these two problems weren't present, the K702s, in my opinion, would be incredible.
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