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Headphoneus Supremus
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Is it really roll-off though? Looks more like recessed treble to me, but I've yet to give them a listen.
The thing about the P5 is this - if you are used to balanced headphones, you will have to reacclimate your ears to the P5's rolled-off sound.
Is it really roll-off though? Looks more like recessed treble to me, but I've yet to give them a listen.
Here's the rub - anyone can tell, by reading my years of posting here, I do NOT like bright headphones. At all. My favorite headphones of the ones I currently own are the Audeze LCD-2, which are far from bright.
But call it recessed, or rolled off, it is my opinion that the P5 are not even close to "balanced" tonally. That is just my opinion, with my ears, but at least I arrived at that opinion by doing carefully level-matched comparisons to other well-known, popular headphones.
Thats great that you feel like your opinion is fact.. its is a fact that you feel the way you do and thats fine.. for you. BUt there is more to reality than how you feel and in fact many folks will find the P5s sound signature to be quite pleasing. even if you dont. there are many folks who hate BMWs also.. and thats fine too.
Now playing "Live to tell" By Madonna - sounds great
BUt there is more to reality than how you feel and in fact many folks will find the P5s sound signature to be quite pleasing. even if you dont. there are many folks who hate BMWs also.. and thats fine too.
I'd be more inclined to believe Skylab's informed opinion (keyword: INFORMED) than yours.
That's an opinion too.
Yeah well since this is not a competition on "who can get more e-groupies" its fine that you choose to believe his opinion to be FACT.. The P5s are great to me. just as many think rolex watches are great
[In response to almost all of gorgonmusic's posts to date]
gorgonmusic,
While it isn't my job to clean up these discussion boards, and likewise isn't even in my nature to try to put others in check for their comments, I still feel as though someone ought to tell you that your incessant, baseless posts about these B&W P5 headphones is simply ridiculous. You clearly don't have experience with or knowledge of headphones, yet you seem to be on a disturbingly personal mission to defend and justify your own headphone purchase.
Whether or not other people like the B&W P5 should, at least in the world where I live, not have any effect whatsoever on a person's life or feelings of well-being. This discussion thread is based on a very fine and educated review of a headphone that had a lot of promise, and you've made it abundantly clear to the reading audience how much you love your P5. However, I believe that if you really felt secure in your assessment of this particular headphone's attributes, you could easily read others' opposing points of view and move on without yielding to some compulsive urge to take some weird "ownership" of this review thread by posting more and more meaningless, uninformed drivel.
Honestly, why don't you just start start your own B&W P5 thread and sing the praises of your headphones there rather than posting further in this thread? If you would be so kind as to do that, I, for one, would appreciate it.
gorgonmusic,
While it isn't my job to clean up these discussion boards, and likewise isn't even in my nature to try to put others in check for their comments, I still feel as though someone ought to tell you that your incessant, baseless posts about these B&W P5 headphones is simply ridiculous. You clearly don't have experience with or knowledge of headphones, yet you seem to be on a disturbingly personal mission to defend and justify your own headphone purchase.
Whether or not other people like the B&W P5 should, at least in the world where I live, not have any effect whatsoever on a person's life or feelings of well-being. This discussion thread is based on a very fine and educated review of a headphone that had a lot of promise, and you've made it abundantly clear to the reading audience how much you love your P5. However, I believe that if you really felt secure in your assessment of this particular headphone's attributes, you could easily read others' opposing points of view and move on without yielding to some compulsive urge to take some weird "ownership" of this review thread by posting more and more meaningless, uninformed drivel.
Honestly, why don't you just start start your own B&W P5 thread and sing the praises of your headphones there rather than posting further in this thread? If you would be so kind as to do that, I, for one, would appreciate it.
humans are so typically silly most times..
The thing with e P5s is this.. if you are accustomed to bright headphones you will need to spend most of your time with the P5s to retrain your ears to appreciate balanced sound.. Yes it does happen but its your choice. you can simply stick with your other cans. In my case the P5s have the sounds signature that i like to hear all the time so when i first heard them i was very pleased and impressed..
Burn in for me took about 2 days i lest them playing with a pillow between them to emulate the air pressure of normal use at 90% volume so that my 20000 song itunes library played through them giving a a variety of frequencies.. then i let them rest for a day.. they loosened up about 15% but after a week of normal use they seem to flatten out alot. Mine remind me of sitting inside a competition winning SQ car and that what i love
So both of you say that the P5s do not sound very good at first? Both of you say that burn in is needed. Do either of you have blind/ABX proof that burn in is real and not psychoacoustic?
Thats great that you feel like your opinion is fact.. its is a fact that you feel the way you do and thats fine.. for you. BUt there is more to reality than how you feel and in fact many folks will find the P5s sound signature to be quite pleasing. even if you dont. there are many folks who hate BMWs also.. and thats fine too.
Now playing "Live to tell" By Madonna - sounds great