duetta
100+ Head-Fier
[size=medium]About 100 hours now into my DT-880 audition, and my sense of the phones has become considerable clearer.[/size]
[size=medium]They are, on balance, fine phones for enjoying orchestral recordings, especially minimally miked studio jobs or downloadable radio broadcasts (from groups like Yahoo's Concert Archive & Opera Share or Google's Symphony Share). They offer a generally neutral, revealing window into these kinds of recordings - while as I noted earlier in the thread, also tending to brutally expose badly miked jobs.[/size]
[size=medium]I haven't played a lot of rock through them yet - but my impression is that they're less than ‘fun’ with this kind of repertoire when compared to their DT-990 siblings. I still have a pair of 600 ohm 990 from the early 90s, and these unmistakably convey a greater degree of "thump" (which I find compliments many rock & roll / pop recordings). For instance, the 880s revealed acoustic details on Billy Joel's Piano Man CD that I had never heard before - but without any sense of rhythmic authority or pacing. Listening to the album completely through first via 880s, and then through my vintage 990s, was a night-day experience. My trusty 990s are going nowhere…[/size]
[size=medium]They are, on balance, fine phones for enjoying orchestral recordings, especially minimally miked studio jobs or downloadable radio broadcasts (from groups like Yahoo's Concert Archive & Opera Share or Google's Symphony Share). They offer a generally neutral, revealing window into these kinds of recordings - while as I noted earlier in the thread, also tending to brutally expose badly miked jobs.[/size]
[size=medium]I haven't played a lot of rock through them yet - but my impression is that they're less than ‘fun’ with this kind of repertoire when compared to their DT-990 siblings. I still have a pair of 600 ohm 990 from the early 90s, and these unmistakably convey a greater degree of "thump" (which I find compliments many rock & roll / pop recordings). For instance, the 880s revealed acoustic details on Billy Joel's Piano Man CD that I had never heard before - but without any sense of rhythmic authority or pacing. Listening to the album completely through first via 880s, and then through my vintage 990s, was a night-day experience. My trusty 990s are going nowhere…[/size]