Eagle_Driver
Headphoneus Supremus
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Earlier today, before I headed to work, I listened to one of my favorite jazz CDs (Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue) through my Sony MDR-7506's. But when the trumpet came on on the alternate take of "Flamenco Sketches", the trumpet came out extremely tinny! What the ****** is going wrong? WAY, WAY, WAY overbright, not just overbright!
And just to make sure it's my hearing (and not the recording), I've listened to the same "problematic" trumpet passage through my Sennheiser HD 600's, it's still WAY overbright, but not as severe as from the 7506's! And I've listened today to a bunch of my favorite jazz and rock CDs through both my MDR-7506's and my HD 600's - and (lo and behold!) more than half of them sound waaaaaay too bright (to my ears)!
(And nope, I didn't screw around with the EQ; I listened with no bass or treble boost at all whatsoever.) And all this treble is robbing me of all the enjoyment of my favorite music! Worse, all of the bass drums in my music began to sound like castanets.
I thought I was going to buy a pair of relatively bassy headphones (my HD 212Pro's sound WAY too bassy and a bit too sizzly) - until I realized that a friend of mine was going to give me a brand-new pair of a certain widely-used "bona-fide" DJ headphone (which remained unnamed until I opened the gift wrapper) as a Christmas present. I received the package just as I left for work, and opened the wrapper. OMG! It's the "infamous" Sony V700! Brand new!
My first listening impressions (on the same main amped portable rig as the one I recently used to demo the V700 at Sam Ash) is that this particular V700 sounds much more like the headphone that's notorious for that long, overdrawn bass than it does to a recent sample that I had heard at Sam Ash. And when I listened to one of the slower tracks ("Blue In Green") from Kind Of Blue through the V700's, that somewhat overdrawn bass, combined to the relatively laid-back treble, oddly enhanced the enjoyment of that track - making me want to sink back into a sofa laying there and relaxing. (I know, the V700 sucks relative to the 7506 and the HD 600, on an absolute scale - but am I beginning to agree with bangraman here?
) I also listened to some Norah Jones through the V700, as well - with equally odd results. But with classical music, the V700 just doesn't sound quite right. And the V700 acquitted itself fairly well on vintage rock music (such as the 1960's stuff from Motown).
Overall, the Sony V700 is flawed, but can be enjoyable. I will have to give it a rating of 6 out of 10.
Head-Fiers (and especially Sony V###-series bashers), you may crap away on this thread.
And just to make sure it's my hearing (and not the recording), I've listened to the same "problematic" trumpet passage through my Sennheiser HD 600's, it's still WAY overbright, but not as severe as from the 7506's! And I've listened today to a bunch of my favorite jazz and rock CDs through both my MDR-7506's and my HD 600's - and (lo and behold!) more than half of them sound waaaaaay too bright (to my ears)!
I thought I was going to buy a pair of relatively bassy headphones (my HD 212Pro's sound WAY too bassy and a bit too sizzly) - until I realized that a friend of mine was going to give me a brand-new pair of a certain widely-used "bona-fide" DJ headphone (which remained unnamed until I opened the gift wrapper) as a Christmas present. I received the package just as I left for work, and opened the wrapper. OMG! It's the "infamous" Sony V700! Brand new!
My first listening impressions (on the same main amped portable rig as the one I recently used to demo the V700 at Sam Ash) is that this particular V700 sounds much more like the headphone that's notorious for that long, overdrawn bass than it does to a recent sample that I had heard at Sam Ash. And when I listened to one of the slower tracks ("Blue In Green") from Kind Of Blue through the V700's, that somewhat overdrawn bass, combined to the relatively laid-back treble, oddly enhanced the enjoyment of that track - making me want to sink back into a sofa laying there and relaxing. (I know, the V700 sucks relative to the 7506 and the HD 600, on an absolute scale - but am I beginning to agree with bangraman here?
Overall, the Sony V700 is flawed, but can be enjoyable. I will have to give it a rating of 6 out of 10.
Head-Fiers (and especially Sony V###-series bashers), you may crap away on this thread.
