shrisha
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I made a mistake recently by listening to my friend's Beyers 990s
I was a Denon D2000 happy owner before and thought how lucky I am. But after listening to 990's I was quite impressed by Beyers sound stage and instruments separation. So, I decide to spend some more time with them and after intensive A/B-ing those two cans I identified pros and cons of both. In direct comparison D2000s obviously have a recessed mid and poor instrument separation compare to Beyers, which makes them a less live-like sounding. 990 sounds natural in comparison and shine with classic, jazz and acoustic music. But to my ears they still missing beautiful low end bass and high end trebles of Denons. Beyers bass has more low-mids and doesn't spread as far as D2000 can and the same story goes with highs. I'm getting tired of Beyers a bit after long listening because of some low-mids and high-mids hump on them. I still like my Denons but I can listen to them only after a day or two break with Beyers. If try Denons right after 990s the difference is very obvious, and I can't listen to Denons anymore
Unfortunately, I don't have opportunity to get exactly what I want by getting and trying headphones before I buy them. And my question to those of you who tried most of cans around and can tell me which of them have full freq response of Denons and beautefull mids, sound stage and instruments separation of Beyers.
For now I ended up buying Beyers 880 since according to most impressions around they are less bright then 990s. Hope they will do for me for a while.
Thank you.
I was a Denon D2000 happy owner before and thought how lucky I am. But after listening to 990's I was quite impressed by Beyers sound stage and instruments separation. So, I decide to spend some more time with them and after intensive A/B-ing those two cans I identified pros and cons of both. In direct comparison D2000s obviously have a recessed mid and poor instrument separation compare to Beyers, which makes them a less live-like sounding. 990 sounds natural in comparison and shine with classic, jazz and acoustic music. But to my ears they still missing beautiful low end bass and high end trebles of Denons. Beyers bass has more low-mids and doesn't spread as far as D2000 can and the same story goes with highs. I'm getting tired of Beyers a bit after long listening because of some low-mids and high-mids hump on them. I still like my Denons but I can listen to them only after a day or two break with Beyers. If try Denons right after 990s the difference is very obvious, and I can't listen to Denons anymore
Unfortunately, I don't have opportunity to get exactly what I want by getting and trying headphones before I buy them. And my question to those of you who tried most of cans around and can tell me which of them have full freq response of Denons and beautefull mids, sound stage and instruments separation of Beyers.
For now I ended up buying Beyers 880 since according to most impressions around they are less bright then 990s. Hope they will do for me for a while.
Thank you.
