Trysaeder
1000+ Head-Fier
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I've never liked Grados, they just never offered anything that another headphone couldn't do better for me.
I've borrowed a pair of MS1s from my friend, and found them exactly as I remember, strong, upfront, punchy, and most memorably, uncomfortable.
I gave them a thorough listen because I probably would never have a pair in my hands again, and as I was talking through skype, my friend was playing music at a massive 10 kbps through them that I could hear. I recognised half of the piece, and asked him what it was. Touhou - Reach for the Moon, Immortal. I grabbed the MS1 and found it in my foobar.
99% of people don't know what Touhou is. It's a forward scrolling 2d shooter that everyone's played before, except extremely hard, easy mode is more than what most people can handle. Enemies shoot literally hundreds of bullets at you per second, and its soundtrack reflects this perfectly. VERY fast, congested, as if someone found a keyboard and rolled over it and 10 other people saw this and did the same thing.
I put on the MS1 and listened to it. WHOA!!! Nothing has given me so much authority as these phones. It makes this music ALIVE, unrestrained, the flurry of notes bombarded me and I imagine what it would be like to play Touhou (I've never actually played it). The drums were so punchy, while the synthed notes almost overwhelmed me with their power. I went back to my AD700s to compare, they sound like a 3 month dead squirrel inside a deflated tire. WHERE IS THE LIFE? I put the MS1 back and turned the volume UPPP. I listened to its POWUUHHHH!! So amazing....It shows Touhou as what it is meant to be, not the artificial, lifeless, hectic melodies that my AD700 gave me.
WOOOOOOOOOOOO POWER TO THE MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(~140 bucks is too much to spend for just one album, but if I find more music that comes alive, I'll probably get a pair)
I've borrowed a pair of MS1s from my friend, and found them exactly as I remember, strong, upfront, punchy, and most memorably, uncomfortable.
I gave them a thorough listen because I probably would never have a pair in my hands again, and as I was talking through skype, my friend was playing music at a massive 10 kbps through them that I could hear. I recognised half of the piece, and asked him what it was. Touhou - Reach for the Moon, Immortal. I grabbed the MS1 and found it in my foobar.
99% of people don't know what Touhou is. It's a forward scrolling 2d shooter that everyone's played before, except extremely hard, easy mode is more than what most people can handle. Enemies shoot literally hundreds of bullets at you per second, and its soundtrack reflects this perfectly. VERY fast, congested, as if someone found a keyboard and rolled over it and 10 other people saw this and did the same thing.
I put on the MS1 and listened to it. WHOA!!! Nothing has given me so much authority as these phones. It makes this music ALIVE, unrestrained, the flurry of notes bombarded me and I imagine what it would be like to play Touhou (I've never actually played it). The drums were so punchy, while the synthed notes almost overwhelmed me with their power. I went back to my AD700s to compare, they sound like a 3 month dead squirrel inside a deflated tire. WHERE IS THE LIFE? I put the MS1 back and turned the volume UPPP. I listened to its POWUUHHHH!! So amazing....It shows Touhou as what it is meant to be, not the artificial, lifeless, hectic melodies that my AD700 gave me.
WOOOOOOOOOOOO POWER TO THE MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(~140 bucks is too much to spend for just one album, but if I find more music that comes alive, I'll probably get a pair)
I just bought some last night
