Bear with me. Today is a bad bass day. Very bad. One of those days that you think to yourself, my toys are straight garbage and that's where all of it belongs! There. It's out so let me get to the point.
My problem is the puddle of mud called low-end coming from my DT 880 with J$ pads. Does anyone here actively use or know the combination? Now -to be clear- without the pads the 880's are not worthy to me, meaning tiny bass and completely out of the question listening to. But where I first was super happy with the results from these pads I am now crying. Maybe because I am listening to dub-techno more these days with it's deep bass which makes the mid-high spectrum take a seat or I have become more aware of what I like to hear. Whatever it is, too much of my music just sounds garbled to me. Ugly mushy €1 worth piece of kit. A little eq-ing does help but I think what I really ''need'' is a different headphone. I probably like the Amperior's signature most of the headphones I have heard for electronic music. It's sound is tight, hard hitting, no harshness to my ears with more than decent bass but, it does not reach deep. And bass must reach deep. That's want I want for my desktop setup (Uber-Bi/Valhalla). Ideas about what to look for? Someone described the HE-400 as ''audiophile bass''' which grabbed my attention but do the bassheads (up in heeere) feel that the HiFiman goes deep?
An other scenario that I thought of is trying out a brighter dac/amp like the o2 combo or magni/modi. Maybe that would counter the mud? Valhalla is a tube amp after all.
