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Re: Bakoon HPA-01
« Reply #60 on: October 15, 2014, 06:05:20 PM »
Just goes to show listening priorities are different.  I think it turns the HD800 into shit.
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Re: Bakoon HPA-01
« Reply #61 on: October 15, 2014, 06:20:40 PM »
I rather liked the HPA-01 + HD800 + X-Sabre combo I heard. And there are a lot of amps I wouldn't touch with the HD800.
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Re: Bakoon HPA-01
« Reply #62 on: October 15, 2014, 06:25:50 PM »
Quote from: marvey on October 15, 2014, 06:20:40 PM
I rather liked the HPA-01 + HD800 + X-Sabre combo I heard. And there are a lot of amps I wouldn't touch with the HD800.

Cool.  I think it sounds like shit.  I suppose not the worst shit I've heard with the HD800 but why you would even bnother to have an HD800 and use it in current mode for that sound boggles my mind.  There are better and cheaper phones you could buy. 

The HD800 simply does NOT improve in any single technical way upon listening in current mode.  I've had cleaner, harder, tighter bass from tube amps and that's all the Bakoon compression effect does for the HD800.
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Re: Bakoon HPA-01
« Reply #63 on: October 15, 2014, 06:27:59 PM »
More bass and warmer sound. Think Leben or RWA, but done better.
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Re: Bakoon HPA-01
« Reply #64 on: October 15, 2014, 06:29:54 PM »
Quote from: marvey on October 15, 2014, 06:27:59 PM
More bass and warmer sound.

Yes I know.  The bass quality is worse though and it just sounds like less capable HE500.  What's the point?

Plankton dies, space dies, air dies, imaging takes a crap, microdynamics gone, inner resolution gone.  Pft, f*ck that.
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Re: Bakoon HPA-01
« Reply #65 on: October 15, 2014, 06:44:33 PM »
yes, but what you if want HE-500 like sound, but with superior comfort and deeper staging?
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Re: Bakoon HPA-01
« Reply #66 on: October 15, 2014, 06:59:43 PM »
You buy a PM2?
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Re: Bakoon HPA-01
« Reply #67 on: October 15, 2014, 07:17:31 PM »
Quote from: marvey on October 15, 2014, 06:44:33 PM
yes, but what you if want HE-500 like sound, but with superior comfort and deeper staging?

I suppose if that's worth $2500 to someone.
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Re: Bakoon HPA-01
« Reply #68 on: October 15, 2014, 07:30:51 PM »
Quote from: Clemmaster on October 15, 2014, 06:59:43 PM
You buy a PM2?

Na. HD800 is more open.
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Re: Bakoon HPA-01
« Reply #69 on: October 15, 2014, 08:10:23 PM »
I found the coloration to be enjoyable on that rig. I wouldn't trade my gear for it, but it was still enjoyable, especially with the pop music they had available to listen to.

Would I use it to listen to my favorite classical pieces? No way.
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