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  4. What's your take on the RS-1?

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    IMO the RS-1 is the best current production dynamic headphone provided you have the money and patience to build a system around them. Problem, your PPX3 Slam ain't gonna take them anywhere near their full potential, it's gonna sound a fair bit better than your 225's but not $400 better. They need a ridiculously overpowered tube amp to sound their best, think power tubes such as EL34's or 300B's on the output as opposed to driver tubes like 5687's or 6SN7's.

    But if you get it right it's magic, it plugs you right into the music and emotion and you end up not really caring about colourations, neutrality and all that other audiophile stuff.

    Have you heard it with the Mapletree EAR amps?

  5. What's your take on the RS-1?

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    I thought the RS1 sounded great with certain material, maybe 25% of my listening. The rest of the time the colorations and limitations were a distraction. They certainly offer a unique and fun perspective, and if money grew on trees I'd have kept my pair. They are also the least painful to wear of all Grados, and the second best looking (HP100 of course taking the cake there).

    That too I could never live with them as a primary headphone.

  7. What's your take on the RS-1?

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    Personally I think they're awesome headphones. I would have pulled the trigger on a pair ages ago if I didn't have an HF-1

    http://www.head-case.org/index.php?topic=869.0

    I do think they're overpriced, but theres not much you can do about that.

    As far as bass extension, they don't extend very low. I don't know exactly where it rolls off, but it hides it well with the midbass bump which makes it pretty fun to listen to. I don't think its bass is particularly well textured either. But it does have some headbending-awesome bass slam (with the right amp) that I've only heard with the K1000 that makes them so fun to listen to.

    The reason I like them so much is not as an audiophile phone, but just something thats really fun to listen to with acoustic, jazz, and classic rock. I had an SR-225 for a couple of months before getting the HF-1 and based off memory the RS-1 has a bigger soundstage. Thats the only thing I can remember, obviously it improves upon more aspects than that I just don't want to say more just off audio memory.

    My take on that pair is that it's not in the best condition, thats why it hasn't sold yet. Most RS-1's in 8 or 9/10 condition around $500 sell pretty quick.

  10. Alessandro

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    I know the head-fi'er who is doing this personally, and while it has taken some time to get off the ground, I am very excited to hear the finished product. If it is coming out this month I am surprised I haven't recieved a request to whip up a meet. Might have to send him a PM and see what's up. :D

    So does this have any connection with Alessandro? Or is he marketing them himself? Feel free to ignore this if you can't give out that info

  19. My experiences with W5000 and HD650

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    humanflyz I can agree with most of what you said about the HD650 (I've only briefly heard the W5000 on a few occasions so no comments about that).

    I know when I first registered on Headfi 2 years ago the HD650 was a really popular headphone for having excellent soundstage. I heard them on and off and wasn't really "blown away", which is fine since most headphones that did that to me were usually fatiguing in the long run.

    I've had the HD650 for a while now (bought them after the K1000 as a bassy alternative). And the 3 biggest flaws that I see are:

    1) the soundstage is much smaller than most people make it out to be (maybe they haven't heard anything better or they switched from a Grado ). Even then the Grado RS series have a very nice headstage (to me it's very close to the HD650), but a smaller soundstage.

    2) if I switch from listening to the K1000 to the HD650 I immediately notice the instruments are well placed left and right but there isn't much height, or anything between the left and right and highest point; it's pretty much empty. This effect is most obvious for most music except for some studio rock music. This is fine for the "focus area" of the intended recording (usually vocals, which the artist probably wants you to focus on) which is usually placed directly in front of your ear but the rest of the imaging just isn't concise to my ears.

    3) the slowness you're describing. This is probably the most difficult to describe, but more than likely I'm perceiving it as lack of PRaT (pace, rhythm and timing). One of the few pieces of audiophile jargon I feel I've come to grips with since this ultimately determines how fun something sounds to me.

    I've just said a lot of bad stuff about the HD650, but I haven't mentioned any of its strengths which it has plenty of. I'm going to hold onto these for a long time, and I do hope that going balanced will solve at least 1 of the 3 points I put up above. Hope this helps someone, I really shouldn't be using my break time with these lengthy replies

  21. My experiences with W5000 and HD650

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    I think I'll go try the 404 and see how I like it. If I don't, I'm going to the RS-1s.

    I would stay far away from the 404.

    It has an upper midrange spike that colors the sound, and makes a lot of vocal stuff sound really strange and unnatural. Unless all you listen to is electronic music the SR-404 is something I would never live with again. I tried it out with a few top sources and it still had its flaws.

    I was only using it with the SRM-313 (and I saw that you wanted to pair it with a SRM-006t), but I'm not sure how much a better amp is going to improve them. The SR-404 are very clinical and dull, whereas to me the K1000 is clinical yet at the same time fun to listen to. Did the big San Fran meet at Neil's house happen? I recall someone was bringing an SR-404, you should listen to it a lot before you make your decision.

    Straight out of the Lavry I can certainly live with the HD650's faults. I'm going to hear them balanced, I'll post some initial impressions here but I intend to do a lengthy review.

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