hop ham
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I’ve had the V2 version for over a month now. I’ve only listened to the older version for a short time in a somewhat noisy environment. In the V2 I hear greater resolution and slightly better soundstage.
If I have time I’ll post more detailed impressions later but for now…
I’m enjoying these more than my Utopias, HE1000, and even Abyss. I should end the post here but I’ll add a bit more.
The tonality, balance, and cohesiveness is what has won me over. One of the benefits of having several headphones is that you can choose the best one based on mood, genre, recording quality, and downstream gear you’re choosing. But until now, I could not find one headphone that had the technical chops of most TOTL headphones, while drawing me into the music, and work well in all situations. The other headphones I mentioned are stronger in certain areas, e.g. Abyss is visceral with great soundstage, Utopia resolution is crazy good and very dynamic sounding. But if I’m in a long listening session I like to jump through several genres and eventually I’m either forced to find tracks that play to that individual headphone’s strengths or start switching to different headphones. The PMx2 v2 has changed that for me and I don’t feel like I’m really missing anything, in fact the tonality and coherency make it hard to switch headphones. Sort of like how I feel about HD600/650 and HE-500s but improved in every respect.
I’ve only been using Chord DAVE with no external amplification this past month but will be testing it out with SS and tube amps later.
Some headphones take you by surprise. You may know you’ll enjoy them and think of them as worthy additions to your stable (if you aren’t a one headphone person)…but I was not expecting these to take over like they did, even if it’s only been a month. These need to be seen as competition against even the exotic TOTL.
If I have time I’ll post more detailed impressions later but for now…
I’m enjoying these more than my Utopias, HE1000, and even Abyss. I should end the post here but I’ll add a bit more.
The tonality, balance, and cohesiveness is what has won me over. One of the benefits of having several headphones is that you can choose the best one based on mood, genre, recording quality, and downstream gear you’re choosing. But until now, I could not find one headphone that had the technical chops of most TOTL headphones, while drawing me into the music, and work well in all situations. The other headphones I mentioned are stronger in certain areas, e.g. Abyss is visceral with great soundstage, Utopia resolution is crazy good and very dynamic sounding. But if I’m in a long listening session I like to jump through several genres and eventually I’m either forced to find tracks that play to that individual headphone’s strengths or start switching to different headphones. The PMx2 v2 has changed that for me and I don’t feel like I’m really missing anything, in fact the tonality and coherency make it hard to switch headphones. Sort of like how I feel about HD600/650 and HE-500s but improved in every respect.
I’ve only been using Chord DAVE with no external amplification this past month but will be testing it out with SS and tube amps later.
Some headphones take you by surprise. You may know you’ll enjoy them and think of them as worthy additions to your stable (if you aren’t a one headphone person)…but I was not expecting these to take over like they did, even if it’s only been a month. These need to be seen as competition against even the exotic TOTL.