windrider
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After listening to them for 1-2 hours now comparing them with my SA6(bass=/treble=), this is what i think.
unamped out of ipod classic:
RE1
- has bigger and better soundstage than SA6 (more 3D sounding)
- has much better bass, both in quantity and impact/punch/definition/audibility than SA6
- has rolled off treble compared to SA6 (and comparing to other cans i've heard i'd say they have quite a rolled off treble)
- mids not as prominent/forward as SA6 slightly recessed/less body/less sweet sounding compared to the SA6, but then again the mids of SA6 are the best i heard so far in my life.
- pretty comfortable but not made for wearing over the ears: will have more microphonics.
- warmer sound signature than SA6. I thought the SA6s were already warm sounding and non fatiguing, but RE1s are even warmer sounding and very non fatiguing.
Coming from a week or so of listening to SA6, i found them worse sounding at first listen, but after a couple of hours i find them not really "worse" but just "different", being more focused on the lower spectrum, but without the to-die-for mids of SA6.
Maybe its just because of their different sound signature, but i find the SA6 sounds "clearer" due to the amazing mids they have, and maybe due to them having more treble than RE1. RE1 mids sound slightly grainier and recessed in comparison and this is hard to adjust to after being spoilt by SA6 in this department since almost all music i listen to have vocals.
For rock/metal music i do like the bass of RE1 very much, but at the same time find myself missing the mids of SA6. I wish i could have them both
will post impressions of running them out of a zero/dac amp with different opamp combinations if i get to it.
Although i do like the RE1s very much, especially since i listen to alot of rock and metal, and especially for their price (so much cheaper than the SA6!) but i think i might sell them and stick to the SA6, because (soon to be) wireless iem is just too good to give up
I hope this opinion would be of help to anyone intending to run the RE1 unamped out of an ipod classic.
unamped out of ipod classic:
RE1
- has bigger and better soundstage than SA6 (more 3D sounding)
- has much better bass, both in quantity and impact/punch/definition/audibility than SA6
- has rolled off treble compared to SA6 (and comparing to other cans i've heard i'd say they have quite a rolled off treble)
- mids not as prominent/forward as SA6 slightly recessed/less body/less sweet sounding compared to the SA6, but then again the mids of SA6 are the best i heard so far in my life.
- pretty comfortable but not made for wearing over the ears: will have more microphonics.
- warmer sound signature than SA6. I thought the SA6s were already warm sounding and non fatiguing, but RE1s are even warmer sounding and very non fatiguing.
Coming from a week or so of listening to SA6, i found them worse sounding at first listen, but after a couple of hours i find them not really "worse" but just "different", being more focused on the lower spectrum, but without the to-die-for mids of SA6.
Maybe its just because of their different sound signature, but i find the SA6 sounds "clearer" due to the amazing mids they have, and maybe due to them having more treble than RE1. RE1 mids sound slightly grainier and recessed in comparison and this is hard to adjust to after being spoilt by SA6 in this department since almost all music i listen to have vocals.
For rock/metal music i do like the bass of RE1 very much, but at the same time find myself missing the mids of SA6. I wish i could have them both
will post impressions of running them out of a zero/dac amp with different opamp combinations if i get to it.
Although i do like the RE1s very much, especially since i listen to alot of rock and metal, and especially for their price (so much cheaper than the SA6!) but i think i might sell them and stick to the SA6, because (soon to be) wireless iem is just too good to give up
I hope this opinion would be of help to anyone intending to run the RE1 unamped out of an ipod classic.