cfranchi
500+ Head-Fier
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congrats! you will appreciate them for sure
Thx! I’ll post some impressions with my current setup
congrats! you will appreciate them for sure
Has anyone found a way/mod to stop these from sliding backwards off your head as soon as you tilt your head upwards?
Surely I'm not the only one who has this problem!? It's rather annoying...
Has anyone found a way/mod to stop these from sliding backwards off your head as soon as you tilt your head upwards?
Surely I'm not the only one who has this problem!? It's rather annoying...
Has anyone found a way/mod to stop these from sliding backwards off your head as soon as you tilt your head upwards?
Surely I'm not the only one who has this problem!? It's rather annoying...
How does that sound? Cant sound clean? Anyway vintage receivers always looks good.Recently bought one of these great headphones................loving the sound, light weight/comfort and the BASS.
So who else is driving these from a vintage speaker amp besides me? I run them right from the speaker taps via XLR and am thrilled at the sound. Had the original HD800 a few years ago, traded it and now am keeping the S version for the forseeable future. Here's what drives it now...........
I agree with your experience.Ok so I have finally listened to 800s during all the week end and I have a big problem, I don’t recover all the aspects that are often associated to HD800s:
- anemic bass? Not at all, it punch hard and even extend very low in the sub bass
- bright? Certainly not, ok I’m 47
- boring and chirurgical? What?! It is not at all, I had iem monitoring before (earsonics S-EM6v2) and I know what is chirurgical and boring
- diffuse, vague and artificial soundstage? Again not on my side, soundstage is spacious and airy, imaging is good, not artificially wide for me : it is still a headphone and to be honest I was a little disappointing at my first listening session.
So does the amp and dac pair really well with 800s ? For sure FA-10 is powerful (1.6w @300ohm, 1w @600ohm, 800s impedance can go to 700ohm) and as a very good class A amp has certainly the musicality that fit well with 800s.
Also Chord Mojo pair well with neutral headphones, that add a point to the synergy.
In fact I’m at a step where I see no interest to keep my HE6se: on A/B listening, HE6se that I think can sound big, suddenly it sounds ´intimate’ : and that is really the killing point for me. Timbre are a bit more natural and cleaner on 800s, but HE6se is very good also. The impact and slam of 800s is not so far behind HE6se.
Last, I’m on medium gain around 1o clock for 800s (it is the cleaner and effortless setting), I’m on high gain around 1o clock for HE6se, Mojo DAC output is 3v.
I’m quite interested to read other users feedbacks about 800s and FA-10 !
How does that sound? Cant sound clean? Anyway does vintage receivers always looks good.
Now playing Nathan Salsburg- Third