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Re: CanJam at RMAF Impressions
« Reply #30 on: October 15, 2014, 03:05:43 AM »

"Micro-rasp" on HE560's treble. That's the first time I've heard the description, and it actually is the best way of describing what's nagged me too about my HE560's treble too!

Fortunately my secret mods alleviate it greatly.
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Re: CanJam at RMAF Impressions
« Reply #31 on: October 15, 2014, 03:10:17 AM »

I like that Alpha Prime description.  Pretty funny.
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Re: CanJam at RMAF Impressions
« Reply #32 on: October 15, 2014, 03:30:59 AM »

T500RP still has the rasp huh....

I'd love to hear if their new upper tier IEM is what the TE-05 originally sounded like.
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Re: CanJam at RMAF Impressions
« Reply #33 on: October 15, 2014, 05:09:00 AM »

"Micro-rasp" on HE560's treble. That's the first time I've heard the description, and it actually is the best way of describing what's nagged me too about my HE560's treble too!

Yep.
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Re: CanJam at RMAF Impressions
« Reply #34 on: October 15, 2014, 07:03:50 AM »

At least it doesn't sound like mud ala PM-1 or LCD2.
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Re: CanJam at RMAF Impressions
« Reply #35 on: October 15, 2014, 03:39:45 PM »

At least it doesn't sound like mud ala PM-1 or LCD2.

Never heard the PM-1, but I wouldn't call the LCD2 muddy.  Veiled at times, but not muddy in my opinion.
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Re: CanJam at RMAF Impressions
« Reply #36 on: October 15, 2014, 04:16:33 PM »

I've made land at Canjam every year for the last four years...

Thanks. Awesome. Simply awesome. That told me 380% more about the headphone related gear at RMAF than the entire impression thread at HF.
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Re: CanJam at RMAF Impressions
« Reply #37 on: October 15, 2014, 04:22:35 PM »

I've made land at Canjam every year for the last four years.  I use my compass and astrolabe to freehand a map of the strange movements and shifting coastline of this mysterious island. I am haunted by the suspicion that this island itself may be no more than a mirage, as the conflict between viewing it flat-on (anechoic first-arrival response) and viewing it peripherally (room power response) create an un-resolvable interference when attempting to view it with binoculars (headphones with no processing).

(At risk of a stint in the brig.) How a swabbie sees some of the strange creatures on this island (apologies to Darwin):

Schiit Rag/Yggy:
I've heard the Mjolnir/Gungnir stack several times previously. Each time my eyes glazed over and I felt boredom as an immediate emotion. It did not let up after time. Pasteurized/Homogenized/Flat/Lifeless; beyond 'no-character of itself', it was aggressively drab (the embodiment of the glassy/muted sheen of clichéd solid state, with an extra helping of drab.) Now I state this because, for the first 30 seconds of listening to the Rag/Yggy stack I experienced a grave fear that I was in for a repeat. But unlike the Mo/Gun stack, with the Rag/Yggy it quickly became possible to listen-in to the inner life of the individual sounds. I *think* I began to see what the recent R2R DAC talk has been about: texture. Hammer struck strings, air and spit in brass, rosin: the full character of wet reeds, metal, polymer, varnished wood, and flesh: I felt like I was experiencing my tracks in the time-domain, a rare experience lately... and it reminded me of the experiences I had in the mid/late-90s when I was first getting excited about the possibilities of Hi-Fi. Ultimately, I did sense the presentation was a bit flat and slightly dry. This isn't an amp that ends the argument for tubes. My feelings distilled to: possibly great DAC and fully competent solid-state amplifier.

MrSpeakers Alpha Prime:
I think Dan may have taken the criticism of the early Alpha Dogs too much to heart: the Prime is a neutered lapdog on medication. Can't even call it dog. Sure you can kick it all the way up to the ceiling without it biting your ears off, but at normal levels this thing has no life; leaving it easy to focus on the slightly wooden bass and the t50rp ortho driver rasp.

Fostex T500RP:
All I could hear was the wooden bass of the driver, seemingly nutty 4k+ response, and the rasp... I can't un-hear the rasp.

oBRAVO AMT/1;
One could probably make a project of designing a crossover to make it respectable.  As awful as it was, MANY of the 2-channel setups upstairs at RMAF were worse.

Sony MDRZ7:
Distorted low bass, no sub-bass itself but lots of chuff. The rest of the bass is satisfyingly full without being big. Otherwise, it has a pleasant balance with enough presence and treble to keep it exciting. However, it ends up sounding a bit gritty and blatty. Except for the unsatisfying low-bass situation, this is what a normal person would think a $200 headphone should sound like.

What headphone was used with the Schiit stack?
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Re: CanJam at RMAF Impressions
« Reply #38 on: October 15, 2014, 04:28:15 PM »

Pendulumic Stance S1.
Some showstopping resonance issues. (A hoot with some pierce to it, it was odd.) Good popular full balance. Metallic electronic hash in the signal. Never call your product S, you are just asking for it.

Uh oh. I hope Mike Johnson, VP of Sales @ Pendulumic doesn't come by here and ask you for another listen, like what he did for asr.
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Re: CanJam at RMAF Impressions
« Reply #39 on: October 15, 2014, 04:29:33 PM »

They were pretty negative impressions. Made me wonder if anything pleases him at all. If he expects a $199 bluetooth headphone to get every single thing right, he's expecting too much. Balanced sound, comfort, good build quality, optional battery slots, and some resonance issues. Sounds pretty fantastic for the price, to me.

I also played some heavy electronic tracks with low/sub bass on the Z7s and they had plenty, and it wasn't distorted. And who cares what a 'normal' person thinks? A normal person thinks iBuds are perfectly fine.
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