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@ Waynenumm thanks for the heads up about winners. My local winners also had them for 50 bucks, such a steal!!!!
Yer welcome. Pretty amazing deal, that's for sure (especially considering they were $150 not so long ago).
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I do find they are harder to drive than my other phones, but I don't have an amp, so I dunno how much the sound would improve with an amp... any suggestions?
I don't have any amps either, and it's a good thing that they don't need to be driven any harder than they do. I can drive them fine on my SGS2 and my Clip Zip, but on my laptop, I often go to max volume and wish I could go a bit higher. I am looking forward to getting the Ele DAC though for my laptop. It is $20, and apparently it amps the sound a bit, and my guess is that it will make the Uptowns sound even better. Search for "ele dac" here:
http://www.head-fi.org/t/586909/the-discovery-thread-new-ericp10-take-tdk-dual-dynamic-ie800-pg-354-ele-hi-fi-usb-18-dac-pg-328
Anybody: how do you make text point to a link (instead of pasting the entire link, like I did above)?
Also, the Fiio E11 is a very popular mobile amp which I'll probably break down and get some day.
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As for S500 - I'm pretty interested in those phones, other than them being more portable, would it be a benefit to own both (philips and s500)? That is, is the sound signature of the S500 that much different which would warrant their purchase to have along these philips? I'm thinking of buying the MH1C as my portable set, but I'm open to buying the MH1Cs and the s500s (sometimes I just find in ears to hurt my ear, my ear canal has a weird shape.. so having a portable headphones as well would be nice)
Personally, I don't consider any of these headphones to be "portable" in that I won't be walking around the block with them. I do walk around my home with them a lot though
I never liked iem's before, but since getting the sony xba3's and the jvc fxd70's, I have really grown to love iem's. And for portability, nothing beats them imo.
Anyway, back to the S500's... they are awesome and they do sound sufficiently different from the Uptowns that you can't go wrong having both pairs. With the S500's, I would recommend spending an additional $13 for the ATH pleather pads to lessen the base and the highs a bit and make them very nicely balanced. They have a very vibrant, detailed, kick-ass SQ, and I find the bass is more punchy with the S500's (but bigger and more enveloping with the Uptowns, if that makes any sense).