Hi Shane,
What do you think of the Audeze sine? I want a pair of headphones that I can transport around with me easily when travelling on trips etc (morning meditation and stuff). Srh1540 is too bulky for this.
All my current efforts to try and find a portable alternative have been in vain. There's an older Post where I mentioned the list of headphones I currently have, for a personal project, and all of them are straight up unlistenable in comparison to srh1540 (I find serious signal integrity issues everytime I try any of those with regards to detail/chord progression or reverb issues or chassis issues, and return back to 1540 in a matter of minutes). Not meaning to be flattering, but I've found 1540 take down much pricier sets with ease as well. My hd800 is coming, and I'm hoping for better fidelity. If not I'll be sorely disappointed.
I bought a dt1350 now (had a lot of hype back in the days) to my collection recently and, unfortunately, it has once again turned out to be a disappointment. Feels like the singer is in a constant pitch. And the bass, despite good measurements has some kind of white noise added to it (just like thx00). These things don't measure up in harmonic distortion chart, but to me are way more annoying than harmonic distortion.
My friend owns a hd600, er4sr and sine. I personally found srh1540,even underdriven to outresolve any hd600/650 variant by quite a significant margin. He finds his sine and er4sr to do the same to hd600. He uses hd600 only when he doesn't want to care too much about detail. So I'm more interested in the sine.
I'm like torn up for options. I don't want to get into a burn again. The options I currently have in my list are - er4b, srh940 (I've heard one, it's lovely but the thing is fragile), meze 99, Audeze sine. Comfort is negotiable. Portability, sound quality and durability is the primary concern.
Thanks,
Manuel Jenkin