tigger
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What is your choice of headphone which most readily highlights the differences between headphone amplifiers?
Originally posted by CRESCENDOPOWER First off, who said the HD-600s are veiled? |
Originally posted by CRESCENDOPOWER With the equipment listed in your profile you certainly have no grounds to call the HD-600s veiled. |
Originally posted by CRESCENDOPOWER See it's my opinion that no pair of headphones is perfectly transparent no matter what the cost, and just because you think your pair of phones is better certainly doesn't mean they can catch the sound signature of an amp better. |
Originally posted by bangraman HD600 is good for amp comparison but only if the amp will power them properly in the first place. I could hear the veil incidentally on all sorts of amps. The W1000 would also be a good candidate. But really the best phone for amp comparison that you can get, is whatever phone you have that you know inside out |
If all these ridiculous low impedance extremely bright phones that are comming from Audio Cubes are so "trasnsparent" why is everyone buying the RKV, and impedancer to hook up to them? Wouldn't they buy a more "neutral, or transparent" amp for them? |
Originally posted by markl He he. You make it sound like we have a foreign invasion from the sinister pushers at AudioCubes with their crack-coccaine low-impedence phones! I think people are attracted to the RKV because it's a great amp. I reject this whole idea that solid state amps are somehow by definition "neutral". Until the day comes when music travels through the air straight to our ears with no equipment, no components, no wires, and no parts at all in the signal path, every kind of amp will have a sonic signature, even solid state. Mark |
why is so easy for me to tell the differences between tube swaps, cable changes, amp changes, and source changes with the wooly sounding HD-600s? |
Yes, I absolutely do believe that the HD600 will show you differences in upstream components, no doubt about it (I've heard it myself many times over, even cable swaps are easily detectable) but the question is which phones reveals the *most*? |