Sony 360 RA makes 2000s loud mastered songs sound that much more dynamic. Too bad the audio compression is comparable to mp3 quality.
Nervosa hitting me hard tonight. Spent too long differentiating sound differences between 3.5mm to 6.35mm adapters. Need to sleep it off.
Silver=bright. Your anthropomorphising. It's probably mild enough, at this stage, that you can help yourself.
Finally figured out how to setup the tracking force right on a Thorens TD203 turntable. Journey down the rabbit hole starting to bear fruit.
Took out a second-hand HD650 from storage for a listen. Why does it sound more dynamic than the HD6XX and why didn't I take it out earlier?
Comparison with using same new pads and cable on both headphones. Reason why I left it in storage was because I was too lazy to get rid of the mouldy smell.
I think mine is 2010ish (silver grill). Would think there should be no difference with 1st run of HD6XX. FR sounds similar but the HD650 sounded more natural (attack and decay was spot on vs that tiny bit of blur, did not sound as veiled). Might be a case of neurosis or might have a better matched pair, but maybe just lucky *shrugs*.
Wasted last night ruminating why Pi2AES > Modius sounded much better than PC(USB) > BF2 using Tidal when realising I did not turn on WASAPI
I did not expect to get a marked improvement switching from my PC Unison to Pi2AES. Really felt that my PC was holding BF2 performance back quite a bit.
BF2 > Modius to my ears on Pi2AES. Wider and deeper soundstage, more natural position in the image, realistic timbre and neutral FR over slightly V-shape sound from Modius. These strengths were not highlighted on PC with Unison/WASAPI which was surprising. Wish BF2 had AES input option.
Isn't the output z a bit high for them? I have the TH-X00 (Mahogany) but never considered plugging a 25 ohm headphone into a 27 ohm or 54 ohm output to be a good idea. How hot does the amp get?
Didn't realise this. Sound distracted me from the heat in the room. Amp was warm to the touch but this is during a cold Sydney night. However, was quite surprised how much bass I was hearing compared to listening on HD6XX and HD800 that I could not stop.
Impedance Response of the TH-series is actually mostly flat for a dynamic. I have no issues with the TH900 (25 ohms) from the Feliks Euforia AE (>50 ohms OI), maybe a bit bloomy around 3k, but the FR measures the same vs Dragonfly Cobalt (near 0 OI)
I like Shostakovich's Symphony No.5 In D Minor, but really, just use something you're really familiar with that you know has big drop/dynamic swings. A lot of my evaluation is listening to crappy pop and various genres of rock.
Thanks! My music library primarily contains 80s and 90s pop and rock music and wanted to hear better/easier examples to better demonstrate dynamics. Much appreciated!
I listen to a lot of that stuff too! Also check out some movie soundtracks; might be cliche but "Don't Want To Miss A Thing" by Aerosmith works.
Did not notice that the Innerfidelity Wall of Fame was still being updated... Why couldn't they left it untouched post-Tyll?
Think my MCTH has low volume channel imbalance. Any way to trobleshoot/fix before contacting Massdrop?
Yeah... got a Klipsch HP3 which I have to listen at 7-8 position. Low impedence headphones is the problem.
Tempted to rent a 4 br house at same price as a 1 br apartment because then can finally get space for speakers.
Currently temporarily living in a 1600sq ft duplex. I actually quite like it compared to the 2400sq ft 4bdrm house that we sold in April. There's something refreshing about simplifying and downsizing.
I should say that the house was great and all - it had beautiful wood floors, lots of trees, a fruiting pear tree and a large yard. I'm just enjoying the simpler life at the moment. Our yard gets mowed weekly by someone else, I'm 100yds from my child's school and soccer practice, we purged a lot of "stuff", etc..
@Grahad2, yes, the soulless commute is definitely a disadvantage. And it encourages interest in IEMs!
Audio technica DSR9 not to my taste More M70X than MSR7. Bright sounding headphone with good staging and detail.
There is something about this site that fuels my anger when having a bad day. Needed last of willpower to avoid contributing to damn noise.
You should cut stuff out of your life that brings this kind of negativity. I wouldn't come here if it made my bad days worse.
I like reading impressions of upcoming and interesting gear here cause you learn a few things. Probably gonna have to try cat videos instead of here for a relaxing activity.
@Stride, Try engineering, machine, and reviewing tools to destruction. AvE will cheer you up! How can you be angry when you just watched a guy opening a kitchen-gadget box with a chain saw?
Realise been distracted too much by the noise here. Got to take a break and listen to the music more. Laters.
On instinct disliked a rando noisy post and went through. Felt good for a second. Now realise do not want this power and undisliked.
Sony zx2. Its Latina vice-like grip has squeezed eargasmic tones out of my IEMs' balls. Thanks SBAF for the recommendation and imagery.
I will second preferring the tonality of the ZX2 with SoundEnhancement off versus the newer gen. But I don't use the Andros enough to justify the ZX2...
Interesting to find the ZX2 has similar retail price to the wm1a. Guess I have to plan another visit to the store and see if I get wowed.
ZX2 can regularly be found for under $600 USD. If you score a B stock Andromeda it's still a big chunk of change but it beats out a lot of bigger rigs.
