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Re: CES 2015
« Reply #20 on: January 08, 2015, 08:51:41 AM »
In Venetian, there were areas dedicated for Audio only, with hotel rooms (where I listened to Nighthawk and HE1000)

This particular room was prepared for High-res audio playback. Once again I had pleasure meeting with Dr. Mark Waldrep. He also liked me for buying his CDs. Here him explaining to people about High-res playback.



He uses his Benchmark DAC 2, Oppo 83 and recently Oppo's HA-1 and several PM-1 headphones. Not an ideal setup but not bad as far as I heard.





His collections here that you could 'donate' some money to get several of them. Yes, it is not permitted to buy stuffs in CES, but... his stuffs are too good to ignore. Too bad I am not a fan of Jazz, which takes majority of his company's releases. I ended up buying 5 of them.




Finally, I could listen to Sony Z7 here, in much quieter and more choices on songs.





My impression is that they are not that bad. They sounded good. The high is a bit muffed and bass is loose.... Oh well, then I was reminded that these cost 700 bucks... Yeah, not that really good for the money. Nighthawk is far better in comparison since the high goes really high.
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Re: CES 2015
« Reply #21 on: January 08, 2015, 08:55:21 AM »
Finally before I went to the airport, I decided to hear EL-8 closed version again to re-check if I heard in yesterday was indeed the case.


...It is not that closed version has super boosted treble... it is more of a nasty peak happening that ruins everything. In contrast, Panasonic's HD10 does not have this peak issue despite the fact that it actually has boosted treble due to being V-shaped sound.

Oh well, at least Dan and LFF do not have to worry about new Audeze I think.


This is it folks. Hope you enjoyed my crappy pictures and short impressions. CES is not really a ideal place to listen to audio devices.
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Re: CES 2015
« Reply #22 on: January 08, 2015, 09:01:11 AM »
Fck, forgot about Pono. They were scattered, everywhere.



Again I have little interest in DAPs, so I did not pay any attention. I guess Anax will post impressions....
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Re: CES 2015
« Reply #23 on: January 08, 2015, 09:13:16 AM »
Quote from: kothganesh on January 07, 2015, 09:50:49 AM
Wnmnkh, thanks for the time. On the 1000, just wanted to know if you have listened to the HE 6 and if so, how's the compare?

HE-1000 is simply better headphone. No contest here (but then, I am one of people who cannot stand against HE-6's treble, I mind you)
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Re: CES 2015
« Reply #24 on: January 08, 2015, 02:08:08 PM »
Ha, thanks wnmnkh!
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Re: CES 2015
« Reply #25 on: January 08, 2015, 02:12:53 PM »
Did somebody hear the AKG N90Q?
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Re: CES 2015
« Reply #26 on: January 09, 2015, 04:36:30 AM »
wnmnkh is my deity of the month!   he is deserving of all of us contribute to paying for his CES expenses, if indeed he gets out of Vegas alive.

based on his listen and chowmein83 elsewhere, I'm off the EL-8 hype train.
but now have Nighthawk on the radar hot spot, Oppo PM-3 got demoted.



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Re: CES 2015
« Reply #27 on: January 09, 2015, 04:37:06 AM »
over on hf, a guy who heard the sony zx2 said it was underpowered, which a pre-fanboy tried to spin, but there it is.
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Re: CES 2015
« Reply #28 on: January 09, 2015, 04:41:33 AM »
underpowered for what though?
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Re: CES 2015
« Reply #29 on: January 09, 2015, 04:54:29 AM »
Some portable headphones, I believe it was.

The AK240 and AK120ii powered them better.

To be honest, I found the AK120ii to be a little underpowered even with some power-hungry dynamic driver iems/ciems and stupid people on HF are sending in their AK240s to a third party to add mo' powah for $500 or whatever.

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