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Originally Posted by theory_87 /img/forum/go_quote.gif
I felt T1 provide greater headstage and soundstage. Give T1 some time and you will learn to love them.
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Well it's certainly a fatter sound, but i don't know if that's better or truer than the T2.
You can certainly turn the volume down a notch, too. that's nice. protect ears a little longer
But again for classical and jazz, the mids seem to be over dominant. It's great on stage to hear the thwam of the snare, but it's not the lead instrument in a dave brubek track.
In classical, nuances that were easily there in the T2's seemed to get swallowed by the T1.
Now for pop/rock, in going through a fast listening test here, from acid to folk, the vocals will pop out much more - so there i get this sense of sound stage, but again, at what cost to the definition of the sounds?
You may prefer this fatter, bigger sound - it certainly is there in the T1's - you may say 'ha, this is what i've been missing from my IEM's' but i'm not so sure. Going back and forth between them, i have not yet learned to "love" the T1's. For classical/jazz, don't think it's possible. For pop, to get that bigger sound, maybe. Not sure yet. It's rather astounding how much vocals shine through, though, so i understand the notion of greater "fullness" from the T1's, but i find that there's a cost in terms of definition from this. getting a midrange/3rd speaker to work brilliantly is notoriously tricky in speakers, so not surprised about IEM's being tricky.
This again isn't much of a review but if you put a gun to my head today and said "you must pick one" today i'd grab the t2's.
hope that helps a little. will do my best to answer questions.
mc