AdamWill
Headphoneus Supremus
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So as my .sig's been saying for a while, I ordered my SR80s a few weeks back...of course I immediately saw a few things I maybe should've bought instead (MS-1s, egg0s, maybe even HD280s), and since I've been waiting three weeks now I also started getting worried about whether they'd arrive. So when they finally arrived today (along with a $14 tax bill and a $5 'handling fee', sigh) I was both apprehensive and relieved. So I told myself I'd burn 'em in righteously and self-denyingly overnight, plugged 'em into the Neuros and turned on British Sea Power. Of course, my willpower lasted all of thirty seconds or so, and...
bliss! instruments that sound like *instruments*, and in the plural at that! cymbals that don't go ting! general lack of nails-on-a-blackboard syndrome! The album no longer sounding like it was being played on an AM radio through a sock!
also, they feel terribly comfortable to me (but then, the only other big type headphones I've used are my dad's massive, clunky studio pair from the 70s...) and I feel like I want the headband *tighter* not looser. I must have a tiny head
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so, anyways, thanks a lot to head-fi, without all the knowledge I picked up here I'd probably be listening to Triports
. very happy with my new 'phones and will be taking 'em to the Vancouver mini-meet on Saturday, for any Vancouverites who want to hear the Grado sound and have their heads squished! now, about those egg0s...oh dear, there goes my wallet...
bliss! instruments that sound like *instruments*, and in the plural at that! cymbals that don't go ting! general lack of nails-on-a-blackboard syndrome! The album no longer sounding like it was being played on an AM radio through a sock!
also, they feel terribly comfortable to me (but then, the only other big type headphones I've used are my dad's massive, clunky studio pair from the 70s...) and I feel like I want the headband *tighter* not looser. I must have a tiny head
so, anyways, thanks a lot to head-fi, without all the knowledge I picked up here I'd probably be listening to Triports