[Gluegun]

Woah! Thanks man!!!

Any Idea where Koss UR-20 and Sony MDR-V900 fit in there?

 

[Neruda]

Quote:

Originally posted by dhwilkin This coming from a K1000 lover...

LOL! Yeah, but I never once said that the K1000 were pretty in the slightest!

 

[Buddha]

Imho, they actually look pretty damn spiffy when they are curled up in a ball next to your silver top pana pcdp....but.....chique turns to geek when you put the buggas on yer head

 

[Eagle_Driver]

And speaking of Philips headphones, I did try that company's most expensive "sport/street-style" headphone model, the SBC-HS800 - and though it doesn't sound quite as good as the Koss KSC-55 (my info on the KSC-55 is hearsay), for $18 (at that same Target mass-merchandiser retail store) it simply blows away EVERY one of those crappy, WAY overpriced ($20~$40 list) Sony Street Style headphones! (Sure, the HS800 looks crappier/cuter than most of those Sony models, but what the heck?)

 

[tvhead]

These things kind of look like those sony egg shells headphones from years ago. Or do they still make those?

I had one question about the color. I've seen them with cans that are slightly blue and others that are just plain silver on a couple different websites. Which is it?

 

[Buddha]

Well the bands are all silver/chrome but the the driver housing is kind of a... greyish colour.... with a blue "metal flake" that appears under light.

 

[Joe Bloggs]

The earpieces look like they're completely round. I don't think they'll really be circumaural, it'd at least sit over your earlobes or something--unless those are *huge* earpieces

blr? Was it really 'circumaural' for you?

 

[FunkeHomosapien]

These are advertised on Amazon.com as the best sounding headphones under $100. This kind of irritated me since I have the Sony V6s and i thought that there was no way that these would be better. About a week after seeing them on Amazon, I noticed that a coworker had them. Since I was wearing the V6s then, i traded cans for a day. The bass isn't as deep or powerful as the V6, but it's nice and tight. It also sounds a little grainy compared the V6. They are very light. The pads are about the same size as the V6 but they have a weird shape to them which made them a little uncomfortable.

they are pretty awesome for thirty bucks. also they looked perfect sitting next to my RioVolt

 

[blr]

Joe Bloggs
Indeed the earcups are round (hemispherical) and big. My ears are rather small, but there is enough space to spare inside the pieces for someone with larger ears. IMO they're clearly circum aural cens unless used by elephants.

 

[tvhead]

I just bought a pair of these phones. I thought they sounded pretty good until I started comparing them to other phones. The vocals sound a little muffled compared to my sr60s. The hp550 seem more efficent than the sr60s though. I wish I could find my dang v6s.

I'm not so sure if they are closed headphones. I think hear sounds coming out of the little vents on the side.

 

[Joe Bloggs]

Semi-closed? Seems like a good compromise to me

And I could never figure out what 'grainy' means...

 

[blr]

The HP550 are closed. I also got tricked by the grills, but they serve only decoration purpose, i.e. I couldn't find any more sound leaking through them compared to the rest of the shells.
Tvhead, I guess You wouldn't expect 30USD closed phones to sound better than 70-80USD open ones. I sold my SR60 some time ago, so no direct comparison. Perhaps you can tell us how HP550 compare to SR60 in the bass and treble. From memory I could tell that the bass of HP550 may go a bit deeper, but you have both...

 

[tvhead]

I'll let the headphones burn in all day and tell you guys what I think tonight.

If these things were all black or dark dark gray, these would be the coolest headphones.

 

[Xevion]

I have used the term grainy in the past on a few occasions, and I have always been under the impression that it meant that the upper treble sounded like it was breaking up slightly, or perhaps just a frequency hump somewhere around 10Khz-14Khz where they would be easy to hear and somewhat obtrusive.

I have considered the SB Live's sound to have somewhat grainy treble (Probably due to the 44-48 and 48-44Khz conversions)

 

[Braver]

well, I believe it was Coolvij who described it very well. some thing like "there's little pieces missing in the reproduction of the cymbals". like looking at a grainy picture, you can see what's going on, but there's little pieces missing.