SilverEars
Headphoneus Supremus
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Is Beta 22 a bad pairing with these?
my super 7 just came in .. man these hd800 never cease to amaze me.
the super 7 is the cat's pajama's also..
everytime I listen to my 2 channel for extended periods I get ideas of selling the head-fi stuff
but when I start listen these again I still love them as much as I ever did.
Is Beta 22 a bad pairing with these?
That's an interesting point - the size of the driver but then ...
the driver surface of the Audeze range or SR-009 isn't any smaller than the driver of the HD800, are they?
So this leaves the angle position but then there were a couple of Staxes around with angled position drivers.
I guess it's not so easy to explain how the Sennheiser development crew came up with this "beast".
Not bad, but not great.
Yeah I liked that about the HD800. It's the closest headphone that can emulate how speakers throw a soundstage from the front and also have a pinpoint centerstage. Centerstage is quite important to me. I hated how some planars, like HE-500 didn't have a coherent centerstage despite how well it imaged on the sides. LOL I'm in the process of adding new TVs to each floor along with their active monitors and DAC/pre-amp. Down to one passive speaker setup. It's much cheaper, easier and better sounding this way.
Yeah definitely not. I wish I had tried them earlier. I suppose it's all for the best. At least this way I won't have a "what-if" planar bug. I've yet to experiment with HD800 on other setup besides mine, but it sounds like a high end neutral monitor. Much better than the laid back Audeze.
Yup. I've owned all or auditioned all the planars and their bass isn't anything over special compared to HD800. HD800 with seem deep house easily shows just how much it can be a sub bass head monster. The only planar I'd take is LCD-2 for it's slam. The other Audezes and Hifiman either go soft on the impact (LCD-3) or lose out on the extension (HE-500).
It's all relative. I have the RS1i as my complementary pair of HPs to the HD800 and in my case, yes, the HD800 are polite.
Thinking hard about upgrading from the Lyr. Any suggestions on what <$1500 amp would work equally well with HD800 and LCD2.2?
Thanks in advance.
Thinking hard about upgrading from the Lyr. Any suggestions on what <$1500 amp would work equally well with HD800 and LCD2.2?
Thanks in advance.
Decware CSP3 or Taboo MKIII would be good options.
Thinking hard about upgrading from the Lyr. Any suggestions on what <$1500 amp would work equally well with HD800 and LCD2.2?
Thanks in advance.
I am not sure about this.
It is ambient information, reflections of the original sound source from the walls of the performance/recording room. That includes all frequencies not only treble. The most important factor for localization are time differences between these reflections and the source and the delay between the receptions of this information at your eardrums. So accuracy in detail and perfect timing need to come together to make the reproduction believable.