Agent_Moler
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Hi everyone,
I finally got my hands on my first pair of phones after reading suggestions and asking questions on the forum. I decided to get a pair of Grado 325i (brought from a forum member) and a Cowon S9. Being new to his headphone thing I was of course a little worried to be spending so much money (so far $400 but I could see this number climbing soon) but I'm being reminded how good of a choice this was each time i put the Grados on!
My first impression of the 325i was a bit underwhelming, I had hooked them up to my S9 and all I could remember thinking was "Wow, the bass on these SUCK!" and "Music sounds really flat with these on" I think tried the phones with my onkyo sr 606 hooked up to my comp's optical. I found that this was a bit more pleasing to my ear but I was noticing some distortion from the signal when I turned it up...everything sounded mushed ontop of each other so this too was unsatisfying.
I decided to listen to the grados and my S9 again later that day, so around 1 am I tried again and the result was a lot better! I was messing around with the EQ and i was unsatisfied with BBE, Normal and Headphone BBE so I changed it to Metal and that made a world of difference! Suddenly, I was clearly hearing things I've never heard before in my favorite songs, multiple vocal and instrument layers, and some more bass (though still not to my liking). At this point, I finally felt that my expensive purchase was justified because I was getting what I really wanted in the first place. A more intimate experience with my music than my Klipsch 4.1s were providing.
I'm writing this not just to formally announce my indoctrination into the "headphone cult" but I'd like to tell my fellow headphone newbs out there that they should take the plunge! I'm pretty confident that you will be just as pleased as I am. I'm gonna post some individual song listening impressions later. My fav genres are metal and trance so hopefully it will help some fellow fans out there.
I finally got my hands on my first pair of phones after reading suggestions and asking questions on the forum. I decided to get a pair of Grado 325i (brought from a forum member) and a Cowon S9. Being new to his headphone thing I was of course a little worried to be spending so much money (so far $400 but I could see this number climbing soon) but I'm being reminded how good of a choice this was each time i put the Grados on!
My first impression of the 325i was a bit underwhelming, I had hooked them up to my S9 and all I could remember thinking was "Wow, the bass on these SUCK!" and "Music sounds really flat with these on" I think tried the phones with my onkyo sr 606 hooked up to my comp's optical. I found that this was a bit more pleasing to my ear but I was noticing some distortion from the signal when I turned it up...everything sounded mushed ontop of each other so this too was unsatisfying.
I decided to listen to the grados and my S9 again later that day, so around 1 am I tried again and the result was a lot better! I was messing around with the EQ and i was unsatisfied with BBE, Normal and Headphone BBE so I changed it to Metal and that made a world of difference! Suddenly, I was clearly hearing things I've never heard before in my favorite songs, multiple vocal and instrument layers, and some more bass (though still not to my liking). At this point, I finally felt that my expensive purchase was justified because I was getting what I really wanted in the first place. A more intimate experience with my music than my Klipsch 4.1s were providing.
I'm writing this not just to formally announce my indoctrination into the "headphone cult" but I'd like to tell my fellow headphone newbs out there that they should take the plunge! I'm pretty confident that you will be just as pleased as I am. I'm gonna post some individual song listening impressions later. My fav genres are metal and trance so hopefully it will help some fellow fans out there.