Show us your Head-Fi station at it's current state. No old pictures please...
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Pharmaboy
Headphoneus Supremus
My re-configured bedside setup.
Bedside Breitling!
I know it's an unfair comparison based on price, but what does the MHA-150 deliver that distinguishes it from the Feloiks OTL?And my re-configured listening room, added the MHA-150
Preachy1
1000+ Head-Fier
TBH, it’s going to be hard to compare. I use the Elise strictly for digital media (FLACs, CDs), while I will be using the Mc for analog (vinyl). I only just got it set up this afternoon and I’ve been to busy with other things to give it any time. Probably won’t be until Monday that I will settle in for a few hours of listening time.
ricksome
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Any Money Available In That Checkbook?And my re-configured listening room, added the MHA-150
Preachy1
1000+ Head-Fier
Well there was, but McIntosh happened!
interweb-tech
1000+ Head-Fier
ZMF Auteur Teak has landed
Without my coffee I thought you are listening to your gear at the North Pole and you are the main cause of global warming. 
whirlwind
Headphoneus Supremus
ZMF Auteur Teak has landed
How are you liking that headphone cable ?
interweb-tech
1000+ Head-Fier
Love Norne cables. I have several in various terminations.
Do I win for simplest?
Taz777
1000+ Head-Fier
Do I win for simplest?
You win for best wireless!!!
Kammerat Rebekka
1000+ Head-Fier
My return to the HD580 Precision has been a revelation of sorts - actually much like the one I previously experienced returning to the HD600 a good while ago. In short? The headphone simply steps out of the way and music just flows. That’s a very rare thing and ultimately has to do with tuning. I’ve spent time with a lot of different coconuts on the ol cabeza - headphones that cost the same as a used car - yet outside of better bass extension and clarity, I have yet to come across any headphone with better mids and treble than the classic Sennie 6 series.
One thing that has become very clear though is that these headphones don’t take particularly well to EQ in the bass - simply because they already come with their own little auras of bass-distortion..adding more bass via EQ ends up in mud and a complete loss of what’s going down in the low lows. Incidentally I find that the 650 is the one with the poorest deep bass whereas the 600 sounds much clearer and well-defined...yet the original daddyo seems wholly bereft of said midbass thump and as a result ends up sounding the clearest and most detailed of the lot. Then again not so incredibly surprising as bumps/peaks/valleys/troughs in the frequency response often have a way of masking detail close to them (also why the Eikon sounds that more clear in the low lows compared to the Atticus, ze bump).
I’m finding the HD580 almost impossible to take off my head. I want to listen to another album...and then another one! I just made it through Die Wilde Jagd’s selftitled debut with it’s contemporary electronic take on the Krautrock of yore with zooming bursts of deep bass synths and galloping earthy percussion dancing together like this beautiful psychedelic tango, and while I often tend to look long and hard after my HE500 whenever I’m listening to this album over the 600...with the old daddyo not so much.
What is it with cheap old Sennies and their ability to not only compete with but for my tastes completely annihilate most of the new competition? It’s baffling to say the least.
Not that I’m complaining. I paid something like a 100$ for what effectively is my ‘endgame coconut’ and I was prepared to pay about 20 times as much for the very same result
One thing that has become very clear though is that these headphones don’t take particularly well to EQ in the bass - simply because they already come with their own little auras of bass-distortion..adding more bass via EQ ends up in mud and a complete loss of what’s going down in the low lows. Incidentally I find that the 650 is the one with the poorest deep bass whereas the 600 sounds much clearer and well-defined...yet the original daddyo seems wholly bereft of said midbass thump and as a result ends up sounding the clearest and most detailed of the lot. Then again not so incredibly surprising as bumps/peaks/valleys/troughs in the frequency response often have a way of masking detail close to them (also why the Eikon sounds that more clear in the low lows compared to the Atticus, ze bump).
I’m finding the HD580 almost impossible to take off my head. I want to listen to another album...and then another one! I just made it through Die Wilde Jagd’s selftitled debut with it’s contemporary electronic take on the Krautrock of yore with zooming bursts of deep bass synths and galloping earthy percussion dancing together like this beautiful psychedelic tango, and while I often tend to look long and hard after my HE500 whenever I’m listening to this album over the 600...with the old daddyo not so much.
What is it with cheap old Sennies and their ability to not only compete with but for my tastes completely annihilate most of the new competition? It’s baffling to say the least.
Not that I’m complaining. I paid something like a 100$ for what effectively is my ‘endgame coconut’ and I was prepared to pay about 20 times as much for the very same result
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