markl sez:
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So you'd buy a $1000 subwoofer to complement your bass-deficient K1000 to avoid paying for the superior all-in-one headphone? That makes no sense to me at all. |
No. I'd buy an less expensive subwoofer. Kwkarth claims that with adequate amplification, there is no bass deficiency.
In my opinion, no pair of closed cans, no matter how stupendous, can overcome that headphoney closed-in feeling. The airy nature of the K1000 with it's wide open soundstage sounds very, very good and "out of the head". It makes Dolby Headphone and crossfeed schemes totally irrelevant. That's a first.
In Nick's Ideal Headphone World, "superior" headphones would address this issue.
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Supplementing headphones with outside sub can't possibly equal the integrity and fidelity of the R10. |
Can't it? Filling the lower bass with omnidirectional octaves from a fast sub should handle the low frequencies adequately. As long as it doesn't exceed about 65Hz, there should be no problems assuming proper placement.
Or, as Kwkarth has claimed, simply get a proper amp and forget about it!
Try this on for size:
$550 - Pair of Bottlehead Paramour monoblock 2A3 amps
$525 - AKG K1000
$350 - PSB sub w/crossover (if necessary)
$1425. Headphones, monoblocks, tubes, and sub. Whee.
Upgrading to full parafeed iron and a pair of AVVT meshplate 2A3's would be $1000 more... putting it $100 above a single pair of the woody closed special Sonys.
$2300 - Sony R10
$1800 - Headroom Max (crossfeed)
OR
$1000 - Tweaked Melos SHA-1 (no crossfeed)
$4100 (or $3300). Would it sound better? At that price, it should.
Regardless of the R10's quality, the crossfeed issue remains. This shackles it as perhaps "The Best Sounding Headphone That Still Sounds Like A Headphone".