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I will listen to that - thanks!
Btw, how are you finding the bass now? I must admit that when I read your comments about the bass of the S500, I was scratching my head a bit because when I first got the S500 (with the stock pads), the bass was substantial enough to fatigue my ears. After substantial burn in, and now with the vents tapes, I can almost handle all of the bass with the stock pads, but prefer the slightly lesser bass with the ath pleathers (and generally more balanced sound).
Anyway, I'm interested in your present thoughts.
When I first tried the headphones I was expecting much more bass impact judging by everyone's first impressions. As I mentioned in the first post I don't consider myself a basshead so I was "afraid" that the bass could blow me away. That fortunately didn't happen! So probably the first time was a comparison of my theoretical expectations and the reality.
Also I listen to 0% of EDM/DNB music so I was testing the bass mainly with "wrong" Rock songs. When I tried some of electronica just for burning purposes, I can confirm that sometimes the bass is unbearable for me!
On the other hand it is great for Hip Hop. I don't know if it was mentioned before, but you can try to hear the background bass at Nas feat Lauryn Hill - If I Ruled The World. If I'm not mistaken this song was suggested by Dsnuts in another thread.
I haven't reached the 100hrs of burn in so I think that there will be more changes to come. Also I used mainly bass softer music so I hope that with rougher genres the proceed will speed up.
I'm not an expert and I can't compare the experience with other cans. I found the s500 great for almost every genre I tried, good instrument separation and I could easily recommend them for any Rock genre. I was impressed by their performance in Acoustic, Country and Folk too. Also no sibilance so far but I'm using mainly FLACs and V0 MP3s. I usually prefer to use EQ but they sound just good even without this. They are too easy to drive I usually go to 50-60% volume through my laptop and max 70% through Samsung Wave.
I'm still using the stock pads, and I don't think that someone should change them immediately. I'm also expecting HM5 pads and ELE-DAC so I will have different results in the near future.
I would like a bit more soundstange, think this will improve with HM5 pads.
Probably I'm just repeating more or less the same thoughts as everyone else that is because I'm totally satisfied by them even without any mod so far!
