[chesebert]

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Originally Posted by J-Pak /img/forum/go_quote.gif Yes indeed, just using MSRP as a rough idea of what they'll cost used/dealer demo or new. I agree good headphones are fully capable of reproducing timbre, detail and micro dynamics. But I can just never get the feeling that there's a jazz concert taking place in front of me. I'm always hearing these miniature instruments floating around my head (which is why I like headphones, they're very intimate). The HP-2 and K1000 are actually very good at somewhat painting that picture because like you said good headphones are capable of such finite resolution; it's just not completely convincing to my brain.

you should try baby O or the big O...quite unlike any headphone I have ever heard. It sound like......oh..here it comes...........................speakers. yes quite literally like there are sound everywhere, in front of you around you, quite an amazing experience actually. But for the admission of a baby O plus a good amp you might as well just go for spkr

 

[milkpowder]

Bob, do you own the ship?!?!?

 

[milkpowder]

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Originally Posted by chesebert /img/forum/go_quote.gif you should try baby O or the big O...quite unlike any headphone I have ever heard. It sound like......oh..here it comes...........................speakers. yes quite literally like there are sound everywhere, in front of you around you, quite an amazing experience actually. But for the admission of a baby O plus a good amp you might as well just go for spkr

There's some truth in that!

the Baby O (can't speak for the big O) does reproduce ambience pretty convincingly, especially if the source is up to the job. Some of the sounds actually appear to be coming from in front of you and not in between your ears! Of course, speakers still have it beat for real soundstage...

 

[humanflyz]

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Originally Posted by chesebert /img/forum/go_quote.gif you should try baby O or the big O...quite unlike any headphone I have ever heard. It sound like......oh..here it comes...........................speakers. yes quite literally like there are sound everywhere, in front of you around you, quite an amazing experience actually. But for the admission of a baby O plus a good amp you might as well just go for spkr

I have to disagree: they still sound like headphones, and I've heard them on the matching system with an EMM Labs transport/DAC combo. Granted, they sound a lot speaker-like than most headphones (so do the K1000s, Qualia, Omega 2s), they still sound like headphones.

All the headphones I've mentioned, to my ears, are capable of projecting a frontal image somewhat, although some does it better than others.

 

[krmathis]

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Originally Posted by randerson3024 /img/forum/go_quote.gif On Das Boot:

Quite some rig to have on a boat (I guess its a huge ship).
But if you spend more time there than at home it makes sense.

 

[saturnine]

Finally got an audio rack

 

[stewtheking]

Ok, I give in, where are your ultrasones hiding, saturnine?

Nice rack, none the less...

 

[saturnine]

The 2500s are with my 580s on my nightstand with the bedside rig, and the 750s were sold a little while ago.. Gotta change the sig

 

[colonelkernel8]

Nice Triports.

 

[TimxSally]

nice Accuras. Team Accura FTW.

 

[stewtheking]

Moved back to London for the summer, and my room is all jumbled up and put back together. I have lost my favourite listening chair (sob!) but gained much in return. (actually the listening chair is now just downstairs, chilling out where my big speakers had to go, but no matter...)

So... what did I gain?...

CD Racks....

More CD racks...

Same old tower...

My faithful smurfs, guardians of the amplifier output switch....

In my desk-cave, where the last of the CD's live. Note the....

Deluxe fitted headphone stand... OR... a couple of bits of wood, delicately rammed into the shelf...


And, last but by no means least, is my new desk chair. Alas, night-time photography is not my camera's strong point, but here she is. The ikea Karsten.

Actually a majorly cool upgrade. The chair works as a normal upright desk chair for when I need to use the desk to write (or post on head-fi) and then at the swift pushing of a lever, it leans back a fair way, so I can lay back right into that groove.

It's not my old chair (sob... again!) but whilst I am still living in a room the size of a large shoebox, it's the best I'm likely to get...

Next upgrade is my livewires, which should be here in a couple of weeks... The curse runs strong in me....

 

[randerson3024]

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Originally Posted by krmathis /img/forum/go_quote.gif Quite some rig to have on a boat (I guess its a huge ship). But if you spend more time there than at home it makes sense.

Way too much time......................

 

[itobito]

 

[krmathis]

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Originally Posted by randerson3024 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Way too much time......................

Then it totally make sense to have such an intense headphone rig on the boat.
Or else the 'phones would collect dust at home...

 

[randerson3024]

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Originally Posted by krmathis /img/forum/go_quote.gif Then it totally make sense to have such an intense headphone rig on the boat. Or else the 'phones would collect dust at home...

True enough, only I can't listen to the Omega II's because of a noisy vent in my stateroom. This is why I bought the 4070's. I am looking forward to hearing your impressions when yours arrive. I don't think the SRM-727 is powerful enough to drive them. I think for an amp, I am going to order a Headamp Special Edition Blue Hawaii a little later this year.

I am in the process of trying to buy some Lambdas from a fellow Head Fier. It has been a long time since I heard them, and it will be fun to compare them.

Cheers,

Bob