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Originally Posted by Deep Funk /img/forum/go_quote.gif
I don't find the bass on my standard HD428 sloppy. It's burned in.
Could you explain what about the bass was sloppy for you?
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It most likely was the music I was listening to, but I was listening to some David Guetta stuff, and the bass was definitely there and hard hitting... but seemed overly done and didn't keep up. I've listened to the same tracks on my Turtle Beach HPX (which has close to the same amount of bass) but seemed to keep pace with the song better. My AKG K240s (that I sold) after a Canare cable upgrade seemed to keep pace with the bass the best out of my phones, but didn't have much impact.
Unfortunately, I didn't listen to some of my Metal tunes with this headphone prior to the re-cable, as I would have liked to see if there was a difference on some tracks where Metallica (or similar) use the double bass drums and double tap each one for a really quick bass that sometimes gets muddled together (as they did on my father-in-laws Bose QC2 headphones).
Though, in the end... I like these headphones, and for the price...they're very difficult to beat. They even sound fairly nice for Jazz too. These are my new Rock/Metal headphones (as they don't require a GREAT headphone to represent that genre). I will keep searching for my perfect closed headphone, and I think a Woodied Denon would possibly be it, but I can't find a place to audition in my area.
I actually paid $20 for these off of Amazon as Refurbished models. I think I just may grab another pair before they're all gone. I had purchased them from BestBuy originally for $74, but returned them (unopened) when I saw on Amazon the refurbished one. Sounds good for a $74 phone (even if the cable is pathetic), sounds really nice for a $55 phone.... Sound incredible for a $20 phone.
If it makes ANY difference, I was listening to FLACs off the PC through a uDac.