You remember me my situation yesterday... When I was unpacking the AH-D9200 my wife was doing things in the same room and I said to her: "Oh, look at my new headphones that you know I have waited for a long time... they are made of bamboo, look..." and she said: how much? 1000 € sure? and looked angrily at me"... Then, my strategy (certainly, so bad): ok... ok... I'm not going to tell you how much are them (she got angry when I bought the DT 1990 Pro for 300 €), I bought them with the money of the T 1.3 that I returned (she also didn't know how much were the T 1.3, she only knew that I bought with the money from my returned Amiron's and my sold DT 1990's)... I continued saying: I had that money reserved for them... and the conversation ended... Hope will not be continued
Ok, some briefly initial impressions, but I have not passed a lot time with them (just a little time yesterday afternoon -1 hour- and at night -2 or 3 hours- listening to some different songs from different genres and right now I have listened to "Willow OST" and a few songs of "The Mission OST","Ghostbusters OST", some songs of "Edward Scissorhands OST" and now - while I'm cheking my post - I'm starting with the mytical "Jazz at the Pawnshop"):
- Aesthetically, they are so pretty, like all the owners know. I though that the bamboo was of a lighter brown tone when I saw the pics of them, maybe there are variations in the brown tone from one unit to other. The construction is superb and so similar of the Sony Z7s (even the box is similar). What I really don't like is see them in the Sieveking Omega stand, because of the flat headband, they are so ugly there (tomorrow I will take a pic for you to see that).
- Comfort: the main worry I had about them. Yesterday, I put them adjusted at six position and after two hours I noticed a very little discomfort on a central point the headband area, then I moved the Hps a little to the front of my head and the discomfort totally disappeared. Today, I decided to put at 7, but I suppose that the pad of the headband will adjust naturally with time. The clamp of the side pads also annoyed very little after two hours of use, but, like the headband, I suppose they will mold with time. Thankfully my ears don't touch the interior mesh and the pads don't pinch my ears... I will post more impressions about comfort when I can pass more time with them (4 or 5 hours or more).
- Sound:
(yesterday) ok, at first I started with metal -the genre I know better- (some
trash Metallica,
melodic death Children of Bodom,
heavy Iron Maiden,
gothic Tristania-Epica,
symphonic Therion... and so more but just listened one or two songs of each) and I though they were bass lite (because I mentally compared with the T 1.3 that has an incredible bass with, for example, Metallica albums that I find hard to forget... I didn't like them with this genre in my first listenings wich was disappointed for me because I want them to be a genre-master cans... I will give them another chance with other metal genres and albums, but I'm thinking in buying again the Beyer DT 1990 Pro that are amazing for metal music (even with the truly bad studio productions).
Then, I tried one album that I really loved with the 1990 Pro: Pink Floyd "Dark side of the moon" and althought I liked the sound and found really balanced, I missed the soundstage that with the DT 1990 Pro is fantastic in that concrete album (pure magic). I tried other symphonic rock songs (from Supertramp or other Pink Floyd albums) but they didn't give me nothing new that Sony Z7 or HD 800 gave to me (maybe I wanted to find that "wow" factor that surprise you when you try a new headphones: for example, for me was bass and the abilities to play games with the T 1.3 or multigenre capabilities and not so open design with DT 1990 Pro).
Ok, now writing about my (
today) experiencies with them (like I said at first, only with OSTs) and the orgasms are starting to appear (I'm going to awake my wife and she will think that I'm watching
something forbidden in my PC
).
- Willow OST: I love this film from the 80's, totally underrated in my opinion, and it's James Horner OST is so wonderful. I had a lot of goosebumps when I listened with my HD 800 and is an "always try album" when I have a new headphones. Although I miss the orchestra concept with the 9200s like I have with the HD 800 (due to their big soundstage), the sound have a lot of impact and are so direct: you have all the details presented as with the HD 800, but some of them remain at the back of the song and are not as forward as with the HD 800. That circunstance makes the music more coherent, although I also enjoy to listen all the details with the HD 800 (I also felt goosebumps with 9200s
)
- Ghostbusters OST: here the bass appears when is required and, like with Willow OST, the sound is visceral and have a lot of impact. I liked a lot this OST with the Z7s, but I'm enjoying more with the 9200s.
I have now passed 2,5 hours now with them (some of that time writing here... Remember where I from
... Althought if I had written this in spanish you had not so impressions, that's the good part) and no problems at all regarding to comfort and the orgasms and the goosebumps continue... I'm noticing that the 9200s are headphones that you can put and let the music flow, they don't distract you if you are doing other things (like, for example, some people say about Focal Clear).
Jazz at the Pawnshop... Incredible... The little soundstage is better for jazz, IMO.
By the way, about
EDM... I'm starting to get intrigued about that genre and there are a lot of followers here... I don't know if for example the OST of Wipeout PSX games (Future sound of London, Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy...) are included in that genre. I liked a lot when I was playing to these games. I'm going yo listen with the 9200 and see what happens
For the US peeps here, 20cm is about a Focal Arche width, 2m is like your 6ft headphone cable and 6m is about one Ford F250 long. 
