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I am a big fan of Break, breakcore (DJ Scotch Egg, Aphex twins..) and electro bass (Tipper, Si Begg..). The Klipsch is pretty impressive for this type of music and anyting pounding really. Some on this forum also recommended it for classical so they must be pretty balanced and versatile. They hit really hard and very low but I doubt they reach 5hz . Is it possible for an IEM?
I only find they struggle a bit with very low frequency drone you can find in dubstep. But the bass is really fast and addictive. I often found myself uping the volume bit by bit. Slighty concerned about my hear drums...
Downloading some mixes from the website you gave me now.
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Aphex Twin is nice... I'll check out the others you mention. Go ahead and download the vocode records official releases ... vcd-001 thru vcd-004... Gruppe 909 has a killer bassline in "Mad Science", as well as "Variations on a Meme"; get Wazo... their "99 Years" was so captivating and celestial that the first couple times I heard it while feeling lonely I got all emotive. Good thing I was alone, huh? xD
As for another bass selection let me steer you toward Space Monkeys vs. Gorillaz "Laikia Come Home" thats some beautifully recorded, mixed, & mastered bass-laden & layered DUB stuff. Even the MP3 download album I own from amazon.com is one of my better sounding pieces of music. I know, go figure!
Back to 'phones... 5 Hz you should just _feel_. You should just _feel_ everything below 10 Hz. You can hear 10 Hz IF I'm not mistaken (please correct me if I'm off on my memory) but FEEL say, 8 Hz... which is why the Victor HP-FX500 has a subwoofey feel to them, and the bass is layered on so densely. Well, that and the fact that they are built like big beautiful breathing bassy bodacious {enough with the b's already bedambedly} honkin open back grille Tae Ko drums!
So yeah, I just got excited, because I realized I have 80+ hours of burn in on my Victor HP-FX500s and they've cooled off for a while, so I can auditon them at this point with some "relatively" threshold-shift-free (joking!) (and I do NOT have tinnitus, thank my LUCKY STARS!) ears... I personally think that your eardrums need exercise like to build up elasticity and resilience in the membranes. Although you don't want to ShOcK your EaRdRuMs with varying or Staccato like free-range noise like hair dryers, jack hammers, car horns, jet airplane engines, screaming girlfriends, wives, mothers, sisters, (hopefully not hoes, *sigh*), or shrieking youngsters. Free-range noise is the ruiner of good hearing.
Even, stable, moderate volume levels, preferrably album-normalized is less jarring to the ear. Well, I'm not making a scientific statement, lets get that clear. I'm just making an observation from my 30 years of listening habits as a human being. I welcome any scientific support or disproving on the issue its kind of interesting me at this point in my life. I'm a reforming former Speaker Whore. You know one of those guys from the Live shows you'd see with their heads up agains the Speaker... absorbing FREAKQuency Tans?? I still have my hearing intact, and its doing quite fantastic to tell the truth. Anyhow I was just expressing a curiosity of mine...
Back to the HP-FX500s for a sec then on to the Klipsch to close...
These things are exceptionally well put together. I was on the Japanese Victor site yesterday and while I don't read Kanji characters (I guess it was Kanji, they have like multiple alphabets If I'm not mistaken...) the graphics on the site was rather revealing and easy to follow visually regarding the structure of how the HP-FX500s are designed. I'll look it up and post the link when I get it off of Mom's machine, where I was the day I looked it up when I was over there spending time.
So, if 10 Hz is the "end" of the audible spectrum and the dawn of where the subwoofing spectrum & lower begins, 10 Hz and south to 8 Hz is 2 Hz of bandwidth, for the HP-FX500s to communicate physical vibration energy and sound waveform; whilst the Klisch Image has from 10 Hz to 5 Hz which is a bandwidth of 5 Hz total... That's 1.5 x again the size of the bandwidth available to "bass hum" or physical vibration energy and sound waveform for the Klipsch Image to project into the eardrum, canal, ear, and surrounding tissue to construct a very vibrant and believably deep and meaningfully impactful bass-heavy experience. Nice. I'm in wonder, because of how moved my head is by both the modified JVC HA-FX300R Bi-Metal, and the Victor HP-FX500 (which, like a fine museum piece I don't want to damage) at least, not until I can "collect" a "in the box" pair. Yeah, that'll be quite some time...
Oh these wonderful early morning musings... Well, I bid you all a good day! Hope this was interesting or at least amusing...