When was your first headphone "WOW" and what caused it?

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Friday before last. I first tried a set of Sensa demos. I was inside the music. mama.

 

[gpalmer]

SoCal meet, Singlepower amp tuned for R-10's with Wmcmanus'es R-10's... Blew me right out of my chair!

 

[BowerR64]

1992 eggo D77

 

[amartignano]

My first "WOW" was with a Sennheiser HD424X in 1992-93, first step in high-end detail and musicality. The second one the little but very good Sony MDR-40 in 1994, my first pair of decent headphones, for their dynamic sound and good bass. The third was the Grado Sr-60, for their warm and timbrically correct sound and the last was the Beyerdynamic DT880. I had a big smile on my face sudden I put them on the head and listened.

<-- That's me!

Bye
Andrea

 

[h-man]

April 2004

After years of poor-quality earbuds, I plumped for a pair of SR-80s after hearing them demo-ed at a dealership. He put on "Nevermind" (what a great record, 14 years on, btw!) and Kurt's vocal and Dave's taut drumming underpinned by Kris' fluid bass blew me away! There was a similar effect when I got my HD650s listening to Norah Jones.

 

[devwild]

Each time I was inspired to listen to my music all over...

1) 1997 HD525
2) 2002 SR-80
3) 2005 SA5000 & Onix XCD-88 (welcome to club good-source)

 

[crazyeyes]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Covenant I decided i needed a pick-me-up, and put on some hard rock - Disturbed, Down With The Sickness. OMG. The tempo of the song just kept building, and the SR60 went with it, and then the really powerful vocals kicked in "...in dealing with THESE CHANGES, LIVING WITH THESE CHANGES!" right at the height, and absolutely floored me.

Yeah i just listened to that song with my E5c's and i see what you are saying it just sounds amazing. I haven't heard a headphone handle a song like that this well. Just for kicks i think i am gonna take a listen with my sony street styles later and have a good laugh. Hey what bit rate did you have the song encoded at? Enjoy.

 

[hekoman]

My first "real" headphones that i have ever owned are my HD280's that I got about 6 months ago. Whenever I listen to Heaven by DJ Sammy I just completly taken in by the song and it is just so weird. It is like the whole world is gone and it is just me and the music. I never imagined that headphones could sound so good until I got my 280's.

 

[Glod]

I think my real first headphone Ah-ha - OMG was the Bang & Olufsen FORM1. The standard was then set.

I think they got mangled during a move, or the girlfriend "adopted" them, I don´t remember. Anyway, years later, next pair was a HD565 Ovation, and then I learn that headphone´s are seriuos Hi-Fi.

 

[km.3000]

My first WOW experience was a few years ago. I wasn't really into music at that time and I was in for a 1 and a 1/2 hour bus ride up to my teens camp. I was with my friends and one of them let me borrow his walkman.
I stuck his earbuds into my ears and listened to RHCP. What I heard was AMAZING! I closed my eyes and felt the music resonate from the inside of my head as if I was at their concert. I felt that music and it sounded SOOO good. I just felt... "WOW". It made me listen to music again and I haven't turned back since

 

[MD1032]

My KSC-50's, which were my first set of real phones.

 

[crazyeyes]

I guess no one else owns canalphones, or i guess they just don't sound as good as their full sized which they shouldn't. I just guess i like extreme portability. Well if there is anyone else out there that had a WOW experience with canalphones it would be interesting to hear about. I know the sensas were mentioned in this thread atleast once. Any one else?

 

[root]

Sensaphonics Prophonics T2XS seconded (big time!)

 

[sahwnfras]

My first headphone wow was actually with a pair of stock buds that came with my creative NX, i listed to them and they sounded better than anything i had ever heard from a headphone. After thati started careing about SQ, and then got some sony top of the line street styles, and then i found head-fi and got some really good headphones

 

[Leo]

For me it was when I went in to audition a pair of SR225's and then got the opportunity to listen to the RS-1's. Ella and Satch sounded great over the RS-1's. Needless to say the rest is history as I've been a happy owner with the RS-1's in my rig ever since.