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Re: Brief Impressions of a Headroom treasure chest
« Reply #30 on: August 15, 2012, 04:51:55 PM »
Quote from: donunus on August 15, 2012, 12:47:38 PM
Shelved down like in the top pic usually translates to a warm sound whereas the rolled off highs at the bottom  will sound dark. There are different degrees of warm and dark making things more confusing than it is if we don't have a specific headphone in mind to evaluate.

Thanks. So I guess if something is described as having shelved treble, it doesn't automatically mean that it sounds bad since a gradual reduction in the highs can sound nice too.
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Re: Brief Impressions of a Headroom treasure chest
« Reply #31 on: August 15, 2012, 05:44:53 PM »
Quote from: Analixus on August 15, 2012, 12:39:13 AM
LCD3
LOL!!
Bloated low end
Top half overly shelved
Jumbled mids, no control, no micro dynamics (this is w/ Julio Iglesias ffs)
Smooth
$250 for this particular one.
$550 at it's best; depreciates rapidly

Does the valuation change if Costco is having a sale on Charmin?
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Re: Brief Impressions of a Headroom treasure chest
« Reply #32 on: August 15, 2012, 05:52:58 PM »
Quote from: Aravind on August 15, 2012, 12:29:10 PM
any impressions with the lcd2.2..is it as bad as lcd3?


LCD2.2 is pretty good now.  Very reliable, consistent good sound, variation has been tamed.  If I had one I would have put a $450 tag on a proper one. 


The T1's don't swivel but they are actually parallel to my head unlike the 1840.  The 1840 is gorgeous though, love the look.  For some reason it doesn't feel as nice in the hand.


I'll need to give the HE6 more time on various speaker taps to get it figured out once and for all.  I'll try the pad squish as well.  Actually I have some pads that will fit and should help.


The K701 did surprising well for me apart from that weird nasaly sound in the mids.  Not the best low end but not as bad as I was expecting at all.
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Re: Brief Impressions of a Headroom treasure chest
« Reply #33 on: August 15, 2012, 06:06:04 PM »
Quote from: Analixus on August 15, 2012, 05:52:58 PM
I'll need to give the HE6 more time on various speaker taps to get it figured out once and for all.  I'll try the pad squish as well.  Actually I have some pads that will fit and should help.

A friend of mine who owns the SR009 was pretty shocked by the transparency and musicality of the HE6 through a Placette Active -> First Watt J2 chain.  With just the J2 and using the Berkeley DAC to attentuate, there were some deficiencies; adding the Placette fixed the majority of issues.  There's an entire level of detail that gets truncated with lesser chains.  Also, the unpleasant aspects of the HE6 frequency reproduction are accentuated with a subpar chain.  We both found the HE6 comparable to stats in resolution with well-recorded classical and jazz in our SR007A, SR009, and HE-6 shootout using the J2 and BHSE.  The HE6 had definitively better impact in the bass.

Even though the pleather pads have reportedly worse SQ than the velour, I kind of want to use them for better headphone hygiene.
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Re: Brief Impressions of a Headroom treasure chest
« Reply #34 on: August 15, 2012, 10:00:33 PM »
Was it the newer Quincy Jones version of the 701? I find the Q701 is a bit better than the K701.
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Re: Brief Impressions of a Headroom treasure chest
« Reply #35 on: August 16, 2012, 01:12:15 AM »
Quote from: MuppetFace on August 15, 2012, 10:00:33 PM
Was it the newer Quincy Jones version of the 701? I find the Q701 is a bit better than the K701.


It's white w/o any flourescent green anywhere.  I did hear a Q701 before and that was indeed better IMHO but nothing radically different.  More balanced low end, less nasally mid/uppermids.  So far, of all the panned headphones on H-fi I find the 701's the least deserving of the level of hate they get.


Anyway, purrin will have access to all these phones should he decide to measure any of them.
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Re: Brief Impressions of a Headroom treasure chest
« Reply #36 on: August 16, 2012, 03:56:47 AM »
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It is a K701 and the T1 does swivel.  It's a little hidden mechanism.
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Re: Brief Impressions of a Headroom treasure chest
« Reply #37 on: August 16, 2012, 04:46:56 AM »
The mids are only becoming more and more forward with time.  I think the HD650 might be my end-of-the-road dynamic.  Now it's time to get stats.
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Re: Brief Impressions of a Headroom treasure chest
« Reply #38 on: August 16, 2012, 05:01:11 AM »
My HD650 with the Audio-gd NFB-16 sounded VERY slow, whereas when I plug it into my Triad L3, it sounded fine, also sounds good on the AHA-120.

Going to get the HE-500 and the Paradox then onto speakers again.  Or pour all of my money into LED flashlights, in which I've spent $2k already...
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Re: Brief Impressions of a Headroom treasure chest
« Reply #39 on: August 16, 2012, 09:16:37 AM »
I don't like my LCD-3 out of the box but with a little EQ (upper mids + treble) I prefer them over the HD800 for anything that needs bass + drums impact. And I don't hear the bass as bloated (though my first pairs 2 had bloated bass and muddy mids).

Anax, is Headroom's pair at fault (old veiled pair) or is my pair just above average, like purrin's pair was before it died?

MuppetFace, why do you consider LCD-3 a failure? Because of sound inconsistancy from pair to pair or because you haven't heard a pair to your liking?
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