extrabigmehdi
Headphoneus Supremus
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hi,
I've read ton of thread, this was driving mad about what should I get
for my next headphone. So let's talk about first, what I like/ don't like from my hd595.
* What I like on my hd595:
- Great soundstage. Definitely, not much "sound on your face" feeling. You can relax while listening to "elevator music".
- Very natural vocals. Problem is that I listen mostly to instrumental stuff.
- Nice comfort. Very soft pads, I almost don't feel them.
- Thanks to the open design, my ears breath too, I almost never sweat on the pads,
at least when the air conditioner is running.
- Build quality: It seem to resists to moderate bad treatment.
From where I live, I cannot easily get/repair high end headphone. I'm relying on
friend that travel to usa, or France to get my headphones. So build quality is important for me.
Just consider I'm living on an island.
- The 6.5 mm jack plug. This might sound stupid, but I had so many cheap headphone,
that broke at that part, I feel a bit more secure with the 6.5 mm jack plug.
* What I don't like on my hd595:
- The clarity is not that great. Sometimes I have the impression to listen
things through a cloth. My cheap k317 earbuds, provide more enjoyable highs
(I don't know for accuracy). If I could reproduce the crystal sharp sound of
a breaking glass, that would be soooooo nice. Something that would
give interesting results, with the song "in the closet" by michael jackson.
I remind how I was excited , listening to that song with cheap AIWA earbuds.
- The bass is not that great either. I mean, I have some techno music on
my hard drive, and the hd595 is acting like a repellent with it.
When I listen techno from my cowon s9, with my senn ie7 & mach3bass setting,
it's as if I'm rediscovering such kind of music.
- but if I had to choose between "better" clarity, and bass,
I'd put the priority on clarity.
- limited "portability". I do not need to use them "while" traveling,
but It 's not convenient if you want to put them on a bag etc...
- My portable air conditioner do quite some background noise,
so if my headphone could block partially such noise that would be so great...
This won't be an issue, when summer would be gone.
- I was frustrated to not notice a significant improvement,
with the amping of my xonar stx. Why did I bought such expensive sound card ....
I've discarded lot of brands just because they have the stupid 3.5mm jack plug (and no replaceable cable). Do they want me to break it easily, so that I replace my headphone soon or what ? So unfortunately, I'm discarding these interesting brands: audio-technica, beyerdynamics, grados, denon.
I've also seen the seller at headphonic criticizing the built quality of
the ultrasones, and couldn't recommend them to the average consumer partly
because of that (but I love the design of these ultrasone pro 900 , well
if it's only the look...).
Currently looking for the shr940 (a bit ugly it seems) , but I'm not sure they would be an improvement
for my hd595 (considering my tastes ). I like mostly instrumental music, film scores / classical
, but occasionally techno/electronica/dark ambient too. I'm also attracted by the "big rebates", and was wondering for instance if the sony MDR-SA5000 at 350$
was worth it. Or anything big, like big drivers, big sound qual, big bang for the bucks, or whatever that would provide the feeling
I'm not spending lot of money for nothing (already spending waaay too much time reading reviews here and elsewhere).
Thanks
I've read ton of thread, this was driving mad about what should I get
for my next headphone. So let's talk about first, what I like/ don't like from my hd595.
* What I like on my hd595:
- Great soundstage. Definitely, not much "sound on your face" feeling. You can relax while listening to "elevator music".
- Very natural vocals. Problem is that I listen mostly to instrumental stuff.
- Nice comfort. Very soft pads, I almost don't feel them.
- Thanks to the open design, my ears breath too, I almost never sweat on the pads,
at least when the air conditioner is running.
- Build quality: It seem to resists to moderate bad treatment.
From where I live, I cannot easily get/repair high end headphone. I'm relying on
friend that travel to usa, or France to get my headphones. So build quality is important for me.
Just consider I'm living on an island.
- The 6.5 mm jack plug. This might sound stupid, but I had so many cheap headphone,
that broke at that part, I feel a bit more secure with the 6.5 mm jack plug.
* What I don't like on my hd595:
- The clarity is not that great. Sometimes I have the impression to listen
things through a cloth. My cheap k317 earbuds, provide more enjoyable highs
(I don't know for accuracy). If I could reproduce the crystal sharp sound of
a breaking glass, that would be soooooo nice. Something that would
give interesting results, with the song "in the closet" by michael jackson.
I remind how I was excited , listening to that song with cheap AIWA earbuds.
- The bass is not that great either. I mean, I have some techno music on
my hard drive, and the hd595 is acting like a repellent with it.
When I listen techno from my cowon s9, with my senn ie7 & mach3bass setting,
it's as if I'm rediscovering such kind of music.
- but if I had to choose between "better" clarity, and bass,
I'd put the priority on clarity.
- limited "portability". I do not need to use them "while" traveling,
but It 's not convenient if you want to put them on a bag etc...
- My portable air conditioner do quite some background noise,
so if my headphone could block partially such noise that would be so great...
This won't be an issue, when summer would be gone.
- I was frustrated to not notice a significant improvement,
with the amping of my xonar stx. Why did I bought such expensive sound card ....
I've discarded lot of brands just because they have the stupid 3.5mm jack plug (and no replaceable cable). Do they want me to break it easily, so that I replace my headphone soon or what ? So unfortunately, I'm discarding these interesting brands: audio-technica, beyerdynamics, grados, denon.
I've also seen the seller at headphonic criticizing the built quality of
the ultrasones, and couldn't recommend them to the average consumer partly
because of that (but I love the design of these ultrasone pro 900 , well
if it's only the look...).
Currently looking for the shr940 (a bit ugly it seems) , but I'm not sure they would be an improvement
for my hd595 (considering my tastes ). I like mostly instrumental music, film scores / classical
, but occasionally techno/electronica/dark ambient too. I'm also attracted by the "big rebates", and was wondering for instance if the sony MDR-SA5000 at 350$
was worth it. Or anything big, like big drivers, big sound qual, big bang for the bucks, or whatever that would provide the feeling
I'm not spending lot of money for nothing (already spending waaay too much time reading reviews here and elsewhere).
Thanks