New York Audio Show 2014 | Headphone Reviews and Discussion - Head-Fi.org

mcullinan · Sep 27, 2014 at 8:50 PM

I was there today. I heard the Mr Speakers Alpha dog, Not Bad. I heard them with the Hugo Dac/Amp, I think they were a little flat and polite. Maybe they need more power??

I really liked the Kingsound H03s, the only issue bing you need a special amplifier to pair with the headphones. If they could get a quarter inch plug on them Id buy them in a heartbeat. Pretty sweet!
Woo Audio was there too. Always awesome.

Rhamnetin · Sep 27, 2014 at 9:07 PM

I was there too. I didn't really like the KingSound electrostats, they seemed a bit too closed in for my liking. My favorite headphone there was the Stax SR-009 which is no surprise, everyone else seemed to prefer it too. I tried it out of the Headamp BHSE with Alps RK50 and also the Woo Audio WES, I preferred the former since it seemed more transparent. The realism of the SR-009 though is insane.

The SR-007Mk1 was my second favorite, which I tried with the same BHSE. Headamp's booth had an awesome selection. I really didn't like the Fostex TH900 which sounded very claustrophobic. I'd say the SR-009 was my favorite headphone, followed by the SR-007, while the HiFiMan HE-6 was my favorite planar. I'm not sure what my favorite dynamic headphone was, maybe the HD 800 (especially when paired with the Woo WA22).

mcullinan · Sep 28, 2014 at 9:53 AM

Nice!!! I didnt get to hear the Stax. Big price difference i believe. I also heard the HD700 which i didnt like at all.

Rhamnetin · Sep 28, 2014 at 12:58 PM

I saw the SR-009 at two booths: Woo Audio (being demoed with the WES) and Headamp (being demoed with the BHSE + Alps RK50). The SR-009 itself goes for around $4k, and the SR-007 for about $2k. The SR-007 was only at the Headamp booth from what I saw.