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Sep 5, 2011 at 5:03 PM Post #2,761 of 5,992
 I'll have a little bit of competition for my Pro 900s tomorrow when my LCD-2 arrives. I guess a little bit of competition is an understatement, but I'll find out and post my findings.
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Sep 5, 2011 at 5:09 PM Post #2,763 of 5,992
Sep 5, 2011 at 5:27 PM Post #2,764 of 5,992
LCD-2s are getting ordered in about 2 weeks (as soon as I get paid) Looking forwar to a direct comparison. Don't think I've seen one already?
 
Sep 5, 2011 at 5:27 PM Post #2,765 of 5,992
my pro 900s are awesome , but i don't crave them like i do my lcd's.  The lcd's are unreal, but sound nothing like pro 900s.  lcds are lush sounding like denon 5000/7000, but (i think) better.  pro 900s are my niche headphone that can't be replaced.  It really hard to compare the two since they are so different, so the only way i compare them is by which i like more.  And since i actually crave the lcd's like an ex girlfriend or something, i put them above. 
 
 
 
Sep 5, 2011 at 5:32 PM Post #2,766 of 5,992
I'll have a little bit of competition for my Pro 900s tomorrow when my LCD-2 arrives. I guess a little bit of

competition is an understatement, but I'll find out and post my findings.
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If you're anything like me, you'll plug in LCD2s expecting miracles, and be horrendously disenfranchised by their apparently anemic bass. But you're stubborn and you know that they MUST be better than this, so you'll indignantly continue suffering through everything they aren't, while thinking about what you could have done with the $1,000 you just flushed away.

Then, in the midst of your malcontent, it will start, the track that spins your head and begins a revolution in your cerebral cortex. Have they burned in? Were my other source files bad? Was something not plugged all the way in? What changed?

Your face will widen as the fissure that is your eargasming smile extends, and you find yourself enamored with the music and the phones. You accept them as the beautiful and unique beasts that they are, and that they offer you a completely different experience than your once trusty 900s.

Then you will complain about the weight of the LCD2s and how relentlessly they fatigue your atrophied neck muscles. And then, then you will return to the 900s, they never betrayed you, from burn in, throughout the honeymoon, and into the daily use they had served until only recently.
Then it will happen.

The 900s will betray you.

At least this is an embellished and exaggerated version of what happened to me, intended strictly for audio nerds with a sense of humor of a certain calibur. :)

I still love my 900s. I use em at work and my computer here at home (creative xfi HD external USB amps them well in fact). But, things have changed now since the LCD2s have come.

Enjoy the ride! :)
 
Sep 5, 2011 at 5:41 PM Post #2,767 of 5,992
^"What changed?"
 
exactly what i thought, and still think.
 
 
i can't put my finger on what makes them better, but if i had to word it out of my mouth, it would be something like, .. liquidy.
 
(better meaning yearn for them more.  pro900s are going nowhere.)
 
Sep 5, 2011 at 6:02 PM Post #2,768 of 5,992


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n-phect said:
 
(better meaning yearn for them more.  pro900s are going nowhere.)
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Likewise, I toy with the idea of getting rid of my D7000s or my 900s, and each time I conclude that, D7000s are my indoor closed cans, 900s are my outdoor / work closed cans, and both are way too fun to discard for now. The LCD2s are certainly rule the roost right now, but the other 2 have cemented their roles.
 
Sep 6, 2011 at 2:50 AM Post #2,769 of 5,992
How do you guys feel the LCD's do with games and movies-especially with Dolby Headphone or similar? That is the one area that I feel the Ultrasones will not be beaten in, and possibly not even threatened by-at least in my book. Blame the S-Logic+ or whatever, but it is truly magical for me. If the LCDs could get me even 90% of the way there, I'd probably 'settle' for those cans for everything!
 
-Daniel
 
Sep 6, 2011 at 6:44 AM Post #2,770 of 5,992


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obzilla said:
Likewise, I toy with the idea of getting rid of my D7000s or my 900s, and each time I conclude that, D7000s are my indoor closed cans, 900s are my outdoor / work closed cans, and both are way too fun to discard for now. The LCD2s are certainly rule the roost right now, but the other 2 have cemented their roles.
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i think i am gonna sell my d7000s, my lcd's have taken their place, i look at them as d9000s.  the headphones are so dam comfortable though.
 
 
Sep 6, 2011 at 6:48 AM Post #2,771 of 5,992
nobody does fast music like the pro 900s baby
 

 
Sep 6, 2011 at 7:55 AM Post #2,772 of 5,992
I'm seriously considering the HE-500 now.  It looks like my EF2 may be able to drive it sufficiently after all.  Mal said his LD MKIII had a bit of trouble with it, but that's because it only delivers 100mW/channel at 32 ohm, which is like, 120mW at the 38 ohm of the HE-500.  The EF2, being a hybrid amp, delivers a much more substantial 320mW/channel at 32ohm, and something like 300 at 38.  It won't go to ear-splitting volume, but I don't care about that...I just want enough power so it doesn't clip.
 
Hifiman EF2
Output at 32 Ohm: 3 v, 320 mw
Output at 150 Ohm: 6.2 v, 256
 
LD MKIII
350 mW @ 300/600 ohm
300 mW @ 120 oh
100 mW @ 32 ohm
 
Sep 6, 2011 at 9:52 AM Post #2,775 of 5,992
ogod don't turn that thing on in that room, it would be a disaster zone
 
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