rangen
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Great review, Skylab. I especially appreciate your excellent, meticulous presentation, and the care you took in conveying precisely the subtleties of the treble issue you heard.
I'm basically in the position of EQ'ing up the bass on mine, and being bothered by the treble on some recordings (though for me it's a more diffuse excess-energy phenomenon, not something I can tie to sibilance), so I don't think we're hearing things that differently. But there's another dimension of these headphones that grabs me, that I think may have been lost, to some extent, exactly by your careful and diligent division of your review into categories. It's that they sound so clean. The way they seem to vanish, and just put you in the recording. The way the music seems to just appear in the air against a quiet background. Yes, for many types of recording, one misses the joyous cacophony and dirty, emotional quality of the DX1000. But for others, like the Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers I'm listening to now, or Dire Straits first album, or violin music, it's delicate and lovely. Of course your experience of headphones is much wider than mine, so I may be kidding myself that this is as distinctive as I think. But I'm wondering whether the HD800s struck you this way, and, if so, whether it was unusual, in your experience.
I'm basically in the position of EQ'ing up the bass on mine, and being bothered by the treble on some recordings (though for me it's a more diffuse excess-energy phenomenon, not something I can tie to sibilance), so I don't think we're hearing things that differently. But there's another dimension of these headphones that grabs me, that I think may have been lost, to some extent, exactly by your careful and diligent division of your review into categories. It's that they sound so clean. The way they seem to vanish, and just put you in the recording. The way the music seems to just appear in the air against a quiet background. Yes, for many types of recording, one misses the joyous cacophony and dirty, emotional quality of the DX1000. But for others, like the Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers I'm listening to now, or Dire Straits first album, or violin music, it's delicate and lovely. Of course your experience of headphones is much wider than mine, so I may be kidding myself that this is as distinctive as I think. But I'm wondering whether the HD800s struck you this way, and, if so, whether it was unusual, in your experience.