What is your main setup, which showcases the PS1000e so well?
I too have both the PS1000 and the PS1000e, and while I love both, when I compared them, I had a slight preference for the PS1000. However, with the recent purchase, use, and delight with the oft-mailigned RS1e, I think my tastes are bending more toward the -e series recently.
Thanks!
My chain is: "PurePower 1500" power re-generator --> "Bryston BDP-1" player --> "PS Audio NuWave" DAC --> "Bryston BHA-1" amplifier at the end. All the above components are fed by "PS Audio AC-12" power cables. Interconnects are: "Audioquest Eagle" (BNC) 1 meter (digital) --> "Audioquest Earth" (RCA) 1 meter (analog). The components sit on the "Atacama Eris Eco" 4-shelf rack. Here is the picture:
The thing is, I didn't build this setup specifically for PS1000/1000e, or other Grados, or headphones. Because I'm audio enthusiast, it was built slowly, one by one piece, than changing / swapping them with others. And it took long time to build. I had many different headphones in the past, including most of the flagships, but was always coming back to Grados, because I like how they sound, and for me the PS1000e is the truly exceptional headphone. By now my system became as base for anything I attach to it, it retrieves the maximum from any headphone, especially from flagships. Speakers can be used as well, and it will also get the best from what they capable to give.
I think my tastes are bending more toward the -e series recently
Yes, I also think (and feel
), the "e" series are big step ahead, and to me they sound better than the previous ones.
I can tell you something, guys - couple of years ago, when I auditioned the PS1000e in audio shop, I wasn't impressed that much (it was attached to cheap amplifier and sourced from laptop). Than I did some research about them, gave it a good thinking, and at the end made decision to buy it. Brought home, connected to my system (photo above), started to listen and was blown away, it was 7 pm, and when I checked the time after I started to listen, it was 1 am
. I couldn't stop to listen to them. Basically, this happens all the time when I start listening to PS1000e.
And again, my strongest opinion is that the PS1000e will bloom when it gets fed by extremely clean and powerful signal. And there is no laptop or DAP in the World than can deliver it to PS1000e. I know, for some it will sound wonderful from laptops, or Schiit components, or similar price range components, but not for me, sorry
.
P.S. If you will ever travel to New Zealand in the future, I invite you for audio session from my system with the PS1000e, and then you will feel what I try to express here in the thread.