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THE WATERCOOLER HEADPHONE EDITION – Headphones, Amps, DACs, and desktop/home audio related – a freewheeling discussion of gear, impressions, music, and musings.
Congrats on the acquisition. It's a headphone that requires a bit of brain burn-in, IME. It also likes some tubes in the chain. Funnily enough, I've recently been contemplating selling my E3, as I really only require a closed-back when traveling. I prefer the airiness and overall tonality of...- BassicScience
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HiFiMan Susvara
Putzeys' philosophy is to deliver the best possible performance within the audible band, and not really care about performance at ultrasonic frequencies. Seems like a logical approach to me. And no, the energy in play at ultrasonic frequencies is negligible, and not remotely a threat to...- BassicScience
- Post #25,977
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HiFiMan Susvara
At a given volume, any amp driving a particular headphone delivers an identical amount of power. So a speaker amp isn't pumping extra power into Susvara, it's just got more in reserve for dynamic peaks and can play louder without approaching its operating limits (which is where distortion...- BassicScience
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HiFiMan Susvara
I have a lot of respect for both you and GoldenSound. You are both tremendous contributors to this forum, and elsewhere. That said, I just typed out a detailed response wherein I documented why I thought you misrepresented what he posted, and why I thought he exaggerated the dangers of using...- BassicScience
- Post #25,973
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HiFiMan Susvara
GoldenSound post on class D amps for reference Class D amplifiers are not load invariant. This means that with higher than expected load impedances, they will behave abnormally. Class D amps use an output filter, and the driver itself forms a part of that filter. If the impedance is different...- BassicScience
- Post #25,971
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HiFiMan Susvara
Sorry, but this is nonsense. GS pointed out that many/most cheap class D amps were specifically designed for speakers and don't have flat frequency response when driving typical headphone loads (anything higher than 4-8 ohms), although the latest class D amp(s) from Fosi appear to have addressed...- BassicScience
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THE WATERCOOLER HEADPHONE EDITION – Headphones, Amps, DACs, and desktop/home audio related – a freewheeling discussion of gear, impressions, music, and musings.
IMHO, estats and electronica usually play very well together, particularly on sub-genres where thumping 4/4 bass isn't the main attraction. Layering and micro-detail are typically estat strengths, and that really illuminates the studio craft and artist's intentions on a lot of IDM tracks. I...- BassicScience
- Post #878
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THE COMPOSER OPEN BACK FLAGSHIP by AUSTRIAN AUDIO
Higher sensitivity (efficiency), and lighter weight primarily. I auditioned both headphones at Audio46 in NYC off the Questyle M15, and thought each sounded great. The Empy2 probably had a more spacious soundstage, but both were very neutral and highly musical to my ears. In a desktop scenario...- BassicScience
- Post #3,284
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HiFiMan Susvara
Lots of entertaining speculation from various corners. I think I'll conserve neuron firings and just chillax until the actual announcement...... :dt880smile:- BassicScience
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THE WATERCOOLER HEADPHONE EDITION – Headphones, Amps, DACs, and desktop/home audio related – a freewheeling discussion of gear, impressions, music, and musings.
Yep, estats are well-known to lack bass impact relative to planars, although the Warwick Acoustics offerings and Sennheiser HE-1 do bridge the gap to varying degrees. Enter the new Raal 1995 cans, which combine estat resolution with bass on par with the best planars... per early user reports...- BassicScience
- Post #673
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THE WATERCOOLER HEADPHONE EDITION – Headphones, Amps, DACs, and desktop/home audio related – a freewheeling discussion of gear, impressions, music, and musings.
Yeah, Susvara sounds like the last word in resolution... until you listen to a top-class estat or ribbon. Given that planar drivers will probably always have more mass, it's not clear to me that they will ever quite catch up in that department. OTOH, I don't need ultimate resolution to truly...- BassicScience
- Post #662
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THE WATERCOOLER HEADPHONE EDITION – Headphones, Amps, DACs, and desktop/home audio related – a freewheeling discussion of gear, impressions, music, and musings.
As a former Noire owner (who upgraded to the E3 at its release), I actually prefer the Noire's bass to Stealth's. I do agree that in all other areas of the frequency response, the Stealth is superior, but I still found the Noire a more fun and involving headphone overall. The E3 is the sweet...- BassicScience
- Post #650
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HiFiMan Susvara
This new HFM flagship rumor came out of nowhere, and my curiosity is definitely piqued. I was a bit ambivalent about attending CanJam SoCal this fall, but if the reviews are enthusiastic, I may have to head down and check it out. :relaxed:- BassicScience
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THE WATERCOOLER HEADPHONE EDITION – Headphones, Amps, DACs, and desktop/home audio related – a freewheeling discussion of gear, impressions, music, and musings.
I've never heard the MDR-R10 or ATH-L5000, but of modern closed-backs, the DCA E3 is the best I've heard if you're looking for a neutral-ish tuning, à la Susvara or Utopia. And similar to Susvara, E3 needs some power to get it fully on song, so it's not ideal for portable use. In terms of cans...- BassicScience
- Post #546
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The Watercooler -- Impressions, philosophical discussion and general banter. Index on first page. All welcome.
No, Groucho Marx. Woody Allen later "borrowed" it...- BassicScience
- Post #89,240
- Forum: Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear Monitors
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Stax SR-X9000
Yes, I meant the peak at 50 Hz. I no longer own my X9000, but I did usually apply a 2-3 dB bass shelf below 100 Hz, as I routinely do with any estat. Had I done some research into the X9000's actual bass response, I clearly could have tailored a much more effective EQ, but bass wasn't the only...- BassicScience
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Summit-Fi Random Thoughts
Given your love of bass, I'd recommend floor-standers over bookshelf speakers... else you'll probably want to add a subwoofer or two, which takes up even more space. Also, if you plan to move around the room a lot, prioritize speakers with wide dispersion. Unless you want horns or powered...- BassicScience
- Post #577
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Stax SR-X9000
Thanks for generating and posting that. The resonance peak (and associated roll-offs) would seem to explain why *I* found the X9000 bass to sound much more realistic and satisfying on some tracks versus others. Overall, I find Susvara's bass more accurate, consistent, and subjectively superior...- BassicScience
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RAAL 1995 headphones, Magna and Immanis
Not to keep beating a dead horse, but your hum is quite possibly due to a grounding issue (loop). You should probably unplug everything from your amp except your headphones and see if it goes away. If not, maybe plug the amp into a different outlet (and by itself) to see if that fixes it. In any...- BassicScience
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RAAL 1995 headphones, Magna and Immanis
Noise is just a small AC voltage. How does a transformer distinguish that from signal voltage?- BassicScience
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THE WATERCOOLER HEADPHONE EDITION – Headphones, Amps, DACs, and desktop/home audio related – a freewheeling discussion of gear, impressions, music, and musings.
Probably the two you reach for most often...? :relaxed:- BassicScience
- Post #53
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RAAL 1995 headphones, Magna and Immanis
Well, I'll let you know within a few months. :relaxed: From my limited audition time with Immanis at CanJam NYC, I can say it clearly performs on a higher technical level than Susvara. To my ears, both cans offer a balanced, organic, and coherent sonic experience, and are genre-agnostic. The...- BassicScience
- Post #1,773
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HIFIMAN Shangri-La: The New Electrostatic Headphones From HIFIMAN
I did detect an intermittent hissing sound in your SGL on one of the channels, but that was clearly noise, and not a signal distortion. It was also below 16 kHz, as I can't hear that high anymore. FWIW, I heard a similar sound from one of the channels of my SGL Junior shortly after I purchased...- BassicScience
- Post #1,081
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RAAL 1995 headphones, Magna and Immanis
Yes. Fantastic, based on my brief audition at CanJam NYC, and other user reports. You can search this thread for "VM-1a" for further details...- BassicScience
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HIFIMAN Shangri-La: The New Electrostatic Headphones From HIFIMAN
NO STAX headphone is "extremely well-built", IMO. I owned the X9000, and would give its construction about a B+ grade. The sliders are plastic, and I had to install some backing material on one side to keep the detent from slipping during normal use. The clamp force was too light for my taste...- BassicScience
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- Forum: High-end Audio Forum