MaloS
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A work-to-rule deep bass presentation (or any other built-in issue) won't be cured by amplification or other gearitis. The 3-5% a good amp will "dig" are almost neglectable IMO.
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.
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Maybe Eddie Current EC/SS or Corda Prehead MKII
That will be a good way to smooth things out in the top range, but the extension in the lows does not get resolved. =(
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Totally correct.
But even more "demanding" gear sounds great as long as the plug provides low ohm feeding and has enough juice. That semi-religious usage of all those $$$ amps has a lot to with male "big balls approach" and not so much with pure necessity IMO.
Nothing wrong about that though. When I was a young guy, I had a loud and complicated italian big balls motorcycle instead of something reliable and less spectacular from Japan. It gave me the right feeling that I was "someone", and so I was.
Agreed...was that an implied dis there to Rudi's amps, Italian and all? xD
I'm 21 but I can't stand the whole 'big balls' = 'big toys' idea. A man needs to have some balls, but the balls can be expressed by making wiser choices than everyone else =).
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Maybe if you do pair them with Rudi RPX100 you will get some extended highs...
For that much money I'll buy HD800 and build balanced m^3, and still have money left for a good source. =)
My main source of attraction to Alessandros is that they sound good without much pushing electrons through them.
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If you do the MS1K mod, you keep the PRaT but get that extra deep bass layer you long for, and a K701ish soundscape. Possible downsides (depends from taste) are the slightly increased highs. And costs & effort, of course.
The perfect headphone does not exist anyway. Even the $$$ candidates I tried were just ordinary fons with strengths and flaws.
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.
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Hmm...my only grudge against MS1 is bass depth =(. PRaT is already freaky (at least with the yellow pads, no clue what flats do).
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It does fairly well with hard-to-drive headphones, but don't expect to be even close to say Gilmore Lite.
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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).
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I'll be getting them on its due time when the loaner program goes on, but I haven't heard of it, so not sure it's working. As things are going by, I'm afraid they'll take a couple of months or three to get to me
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.
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I don't understand...or is this an inside joke amongst Ultrasone fans?
That almosts works, but I sold Edition 9 over a year ago =).
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It's closed and it does not use chicken rash instead of screws unlike one other closed headphone...so why not?
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anyone with a Westone 3 that can measure the impedance (or the DC resistance if that's the best you can do)?
I'll see what I can do, I have a multimeter lying around.
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Wait until M^3 or Millet Hybrid comes up used.
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What did I miss!? WHAT DID I MISS!?
Wasn't it.
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Mmm free entertainment. Sometimes this place is better than Daily Show jerking at Bush.
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I think his Westone 3 might be broken because the description sounds so unlike mine. I hate recessed or muffled mids, causing me to sell two pair of standard Darths (muffled/recessed) and Proline 2500 (recessed). Maybe it is the fit or shape of his ear canals.
Dang, mine must be broken too
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I didn't say anything about being apathetic.
Neither did you think about it.
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This is just my opinion- but when enthusiasm gets out of hand it breeds irrationality. Which is why myself (and I am guessing others?) prefer it over here.
Apathy has its own issues.
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For example, I think that the percussions, particularly snare drum and cymbals sound very muted on the W3 compared to most of the headphones I've heard and owned. What do you guys who own the Westone 3 think about that?
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.
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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.
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I've heard of overtones.
I'd feel better about this if it was peer reviewed. However, except for cymbals the overtones above 20KHZ make up very little of the instrument's sound. What I was trying to say is that I doubt many people could tell a 14-15KHZ roll-off by listening to the vast majority of music. I am curious to know which music was used to detect the roll-off.
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.
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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.
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NO! Time for O2Mk2!
STAX made them to fix this specific problem (and major complaint).
Blargh? It would be funny if not for the fact that he already owned O2mk2.
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Looks like some OEM china made shit to me. Some made up ARTHUR FORTY company. For the Russian speaking: гавно на палочке
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.
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Headphone options for 300B tube amp
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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).