The best headphone in the world ???

[mirumu]

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Originally Posted by P.J SR60s over 595s ?

Personally if I could only keep one out of my SR80s or HD595, I'd keep the SR80s.

 

[skyline889]

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Originally Posted by Patrick82 Okay, so you have tried the tweaks I have? Who do you think people are going to believe?

Uhh yeah, think you shot yourself in the foot with that one. I believe Sovkiller, go CD3ks

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[Patrick82]

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Originally Posted by skyline889 Uhh yeah, think you shot yourself in the foot with that one. I believe Sovkiller, go CD3ks .

People believe what they want to believe. Personally I'm unable to listen to headphones because the reflections are all over the place, it's like sticking my head inside a bucket. K1000 earspeakers are clean and show everything in the system without adding any boominess that masks detail.

K1000 sounds full because of the multiple low-level bass transients. It's almost like having constant bass always turned on. Without the tweaks you can't hear low-level bass at all which makes it sound thin.
K1000 sounds strong because those low-level bass transients don't blend together with the other layers of bass transients. All layers together equal about 20-30 bass beats per second. And then there are the shimmering single high frequency transients of about 60-80 per second. Most trance music is that complex.
Everything combined makes it sound full, strong and heavy.

Without Nordost Valhalla cables the lows and highs blend together, and without vibration isolation the transients blend together. Without power conditioning there is background noise that masks low-level detail.

 

[Azure]

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Originally Posted by Patrick82 Who do you think people are going to believe?

I'm actually not quite sure. You've actually heard the system, but then again, based on your past history, I'm not sure if you'd be the most credible source on something like this...

Patrick82 - Are you coming to the 2007 (Inter)national meet?

 

[Patrick82]

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Originally Posted by Azure Patrick82 - Are you coming to the 2007 (Inter)national meet?

If I can't afford a comb or doorknob, how would I afford to buy a passport? Oh, and then there's the $2000+ for airplane...

 

[Carl]

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Originally Posted by Patrick82 If I can't afford a comb or doorknob, how would I afford to buy a passport? Oh, and then there's the $2000+ for airplane...

A pilot might be willing to let you fly for free in exchange for rewiring his plane with Valhalla cable.

 

[Wmcmanus]

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Originally Posted by Carl A pilot might be willing to let you fly for free in exchange for rewiring his plane with Valhalla cable.

Stop it, man! You're killing me!

 

[J-Pak]

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Originally Posted by Carl A pilot might be willing to let you fly for free in exchange for rewiring his plane with Valhalla cable.

According to Nordst the plane will surely be able to reach the speed of light.

 

[Meyvn]

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Originally Posted by Carl A pilot might be willing to let you fly for free in exchange for rewiring his plane with Valhalla cable.

I'm sure he'd notice a great change in speed and dynamics. The control tower would sound clearer, the lights in the cabin would get brighter, and the engine noise level would significantly decrease. Not to mention those 128 mp3s would sound better than lossless did before! Oh, and the engine would run much better once heated up properly.

 

[3lusiv3]

The best headphones in my world are the Beyer DT 990 (2005).

 

[billinkansas]

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Originally Posted by Patrick82 Okay, so you have tried the tweaks I have? Who do you think people are going to believe?

Are you guys on the same page with each other, or am I missing something here? Is this about the power cord from the amp to the headphones, or from the wall outlet to the amp??

 

[F1GTR]

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Originally Posted by Meyvn I'm sure he'd notice a great change in speed and dynamics. The control tower would sound clearer, the lights in the cabin would get brighter, and the engine noise level would significantly decrease. Not to mention those 128 mp3s would sound better than lossless did before! Oh, and the engine would run much better once heated up properly.

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Originally Posted by billinkansas Are you guys on the same page with each other, or am I missing something here? Is this about the power cord from the amp to the headphones, or from the wall outlet to the amp??

For more knowledge gems from our dear friend Patrick, may I encourage everyone to join in the madness?

http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/forum...?s=&forumid=32

Pages 19-24 are especially choice.

 

[Sovkiller]

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Originally Posted by Patrick82 Okay, so you have tried the tweaks I have? Who do you think people are going to believe?

Honestly with all due respect, I do not need to. And OTOH, I do not think that you will find a person silly enough to spend that insane amount of money, and correct me if I'm wrong, without the possibility of returning a product (I was not able to find anything about satisfaction warranty or returning period on their website, please if they do, provide me the link)....Also I do not think that it will be too hard to understand that a person that did that, and has no other choice, will try to justify the investment later on...And the last point I'm getting sick of that in any thread I jump in, I saw you trying to push those stupid cables to everybody, cables that 90% of us can not afford, as they have an stupidly insane price tag.....I have another question for you: By any chance do you work for them, or did you get any good deal in exchange for that "fanboyism" ???

That is the only explanation that my little rusty brain gave me....

FYI I have heard the K-1000 in a few setups, even good balanced setups, dual mono-blocks, etc....Nik sold it for that same reason, IIRC, after trying it, in probably some of the best setups money can buy (BTW far better than yours) and I know for a fact, that it is not easy to make it sound full.

I like it, it is a very nice sounding headphone, and with a huge soundstage, do not misunderstand me, but the low end is completely lacking, you need more, and a lot more, than a good cable to make it sound full, as you are claiming....Some members here use sub-woofer to compensate it, so go and figure....

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Originally Posted by Patrick82 If I can't afford a comb or doorknob, how would I afford to buy a passport? Oh, and then there's the $2000+ for airplane...

Just sell one of those stupid cables, IIRC you have spent $21,000 on them, so what is a miserable $2000.00 ticket in comparison???

 

[Sovkiller]

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Originally Posted by billinkansas Are you guys on the same page with each other, or am I missing something here? Is this about the power cord from the amp to the headphones, or from the wall outlet to the amp??

From the wall ot the amp, he has also IIRC the headphone rewired with Nordost as well, but he was talking of power conditioning, and power cords...

 

[Trogdor]

My short list (I've heard pretty much everything at this point):

1. Sennheiser HE-90 Orpheus
2. Sony Qualia
3. Sony MDR-R10
4. AKG K1000
5. Bose Triports