dennisback
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wow nice equipment and so many cds... I have a long way to go
Hope the HD700 is a good start
After a bit of delay/mixup with the post mine finally showed up at the door.
Won’t be able to give a proper a review, but a cursory listen confirmed my expectations like many have reported that they do indeed sit somewhere between the HD600 and HD800s.
But my primary goal was to have a phone that combines the attributes of the Senn HD600 and AKG K701’s, believe I may have found my solution!
After a bit of delay/mixup with the post mine finally showed up at the door.
Won’t be able to give a proper a review, but a cursory listen confirmed my expectations like many have reported that they do indeed sit somewhere between the HD600 and HD800s.
But my primary goal was to have a phone that combines the attributes of the Senn HD600 and AKG K701’s, believe I may have found my solution!
First of all, congratulations. Secondly, what attributes did the K701 have that the Hd600's didn't. Thirdly, I've always been curious about the Bryston. What's it like and have you compared it to a Burson Soloist? I'm imagining that the Bryston is super fast and neutral sounding. Also, based on your picture, looks like you're a Classical music lover?
Hi Kas1
I’ve had AKG for years now, K701s, K501s and 24DFs, I would say their presentation while clear is much more concave, central imaging is placed farther back in the soundstage and less intimate, I also noticed this with the K550s that I’ve listened to. Compared to my Sennheiser HD580/600s which are much more convex, producing a larger, more forward central imaging but at the same time portraying good width and excellent depth of the sound stage, my Grado SR325i’s offer a similar presentation but without the sophistication of staging cues.
And while the Senn sound may sound, “muffled” as you say in direct comparison, their detail retrieval is IMHO superior.
I like all my phones but the Sennheisers I found do scale higher as better equipment is added to reach their full potential, the AKGs especially the K700 series benefit from more wattage to get their drivers cooking with regards to bass but otherwise their overall sound signature does not change that much.
As the listening nature of headphones is quite different to that of speakers I find that keeping a few different models at hand allows me to get the best out of different recordings and music genres.
Looks like somebody's a Classical music lover! Nice set up...have always wondered what that Bryston sounds like.
amazon has these for 650$, which seems to be quite a large discount. im not a huge audiophile, but i do care about my audio and not wanting crap. i recently bought the dt 990 premium 250ohms and would like to know if i should pick up the hd700s if its at this price of 650$.
Normally it's best to always to audition if you can, I had to take a leap of faith and take what I could from the reviews but through an educated guess the HD700 filled exactly what I was looking for. If you're more of an audiophile and wish to stay close to the truth of the recording the HD700s IMHO are an excellent phone.
To date, I'm a big fan of the HD700, although my experience is far, far less than many forum participants on head-fi.org.
Before operating on my OEM 700 cable I was thinking of just picking up a HD212 cable for $22 and put a 4 Pin XLR on the end