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Ain't that easy...keep in mind the speaker amp being designed for 4-8 ohms or so while headphones being likely higher...plus not to mention power and such involved. K1000/K340 work, you can use transformer with Stax, maybe few other options...but you are not going to do alot of running here (luckily most of your options are good).

Well, you know, if the amp rolls off or has terrible resolution, the headie won't be able to override that...but ya, no stellar amp will give the headphone what it does not have to start with.

That will be a good way to smooth things out in the top range, but the extension in the lows does not get resolved. =(

Agreed...was that an implied dis there to Rudi's amps, Italian and all? xD I'm 21 but I can't stand the whole 'big balls' = 'big toys' idea. A man needs to have some balls, but the balls can be expressed by making wiser choices than everyone else =).

For that much money I'll buy HD800 and build balanced m^3, and still have money left for a good source. =) My main source of attraction to Alessandros is that they sound good without much pushing electrons through them.

Omega 2 sounds great to me (on some very specific amplifiers), I just don't have the $5000 I would need to put in source/amp behind it =). I'll have to think about the whole MS1k mod though, sounds interesting...but the "the slightly increased highs" part scares me, there is not alot of space for more treble in Alessandro line-up it seems.

Hmm...my only grudge against MS1 is bass depth =(. PRaT is already freaky (at least with the yellow pads, no clue what flats do).

It does fairly well with hard-to-drive headphones, but don't expect to be even close to say Gilmore Lite.

I've searched both forums for decent information in that regard and got nothing. Can someone comment on their extension of the low range, in particular how rolled off they are at 30 and 20 hz? How much improvement is there over MS-1? (I have an MS-1 here).

I'll get things moving next week - I just finished my last final. =) As it currently stands, february is probably a good estimate when you'll get it.

That almosts works, but I sold Edition 9 over a year ago =).

It's closed and it does not use chicken rash instead of screws unlike one other closed headphone...so why not?

I'll see what I can do, I have a multimeter lying around.

Wait until M^3 or Millet Hybrid comes up used.

Wasn't it.

Mmm free entertainment. Sometimes this place is better than Daily Show jerking at Bush.

Dang, mine must be broken too (. Shocks.

Neither did you think about it.

Apathy has its own issues.

I don't think that they are so much muted, they are loud and present - there is not enough snap. I get this similar issue also with reproduction of electric guitars - at first look the instrument is all there, but there are high frequency characteristics of tube distortion that just didn't make it. I am not sure if there really are any issues in the mid-band of this headphone, or things come down to it not having enough extension in the treble response.

Ya, I was wondering if that was my equipment or what...its like you don't hear explicit texture of things, but then all the different layers are there...I guess 'rounded' describes it correctly. I am always a bit slow on pin-pointing the exact characteristic that is wrong, especially when its not an obvious frequency response issue.

Very bad type of music. Tone generator. Just in case you thought I was trying to analyze individual notes. And lets not take bets on what kind of frequencies I can put out using a strat and Vox ac30cc...all this is still ignoring the fact that instruments, as stated above, have overtones in addition to fundamental frequencies.

Musicality/Fun just about says it. I don't see the bass as overblown, but the rolled-off treblepast 14-15khz does push it to sound darker.

Blargh? It would be funny if not for the fact that he already owned O2mk2.

Gavno na 'headband' ... head-case vsetaki. Ya that makes sense knowing the way Russian market works, especially seeing how the microphones look like more like a portable gas stove.