Easy: Get the KSC75. They are cheaper and sound plenty good (proly better than the  HD 215s).

Pirates, I seek your advice. Looking to get beater IEMs to replace my Carbo Tenores (sold them to a friend who desperately needed IEMs); Vsonic VSD3/S or Havi B3 Pro-1 / Pro-2?
I really thought the sound of the Carbo Tenores was quite competent, but the ergonomics were lacking. The Vsonics have that Westone/Shure style that I like. What do you guys think?

Nothing beats the GR07 for ergonomics.  That VSD3 doesn't look that comfortable to me.  It's a Shure design with sharp angles that may or may not bother you depending on fit.  If your ear canal can handle them, I don't find anything more comfy that small deep insertion IEMs myself. 

Easy: Get the KSC75. They are cheaper and sound plenty good (proly better than the  HD 215s).

It's tough for me to admit, but they probably do. They are still even on my mind with Superlux tho.

Soooo, more on Superlux HD668B vs KOSS PortaPro/KSC75? Details and charts listed on the previous page.

Quote from: Darsus on October 20, 2014, 06:05:16 PM

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Easy: Get the KSC75. They are cheaper and sound plenty good (proly better than the  HD 215s).

It's tough for me to admit, but they probably do. They are still even on my mind with Superlux tho.

Soooo, more on Superlux HD668B vs KOSS PortaPro/KSC75? Details and charts listed on the previous page.

My personal advice, buy two KSC75s, keep one stock and modify the other one for testing. The quarter modification alone makes quite the difference.

I rarely buy two of one headphone, the KSC75 is worth it. Superlux is not bad though, I just have AKGs already...

I have no doubt's that they are very good. I will have them sooner or later, I promised to myself to buy both, PortaPro and KSC75 sometime in the future.

What AKG do you have? 240? Do you produce/mix music on them? What you find better for it between KSC75 and AKG?

Also, based on first 2 questions I asked, how do you compare them?

1. Which one has better dynamics? Better feel of instruments separated, exactly. Which one actually glues sound less and produce more realistic sound?

2. Which one has better detailed sound? I've seen some frequency charts, and I could see that KSC 75 has higher response on highs, but which one provides more flat sound (even tho I know they aren't flat at all), neutral and realistic sound? On which model you can hear more "flaws" in songs?

Edit: If you mix on them, from which one sound translates better to speakers?

Will check it.

There is something that worries me about Superlux HD668B that I found i 2 reviews, and we saw that 5k+bump (take a note that a first one is some basshead that was complaining about no "extreme bass", oh god)

these sounded good in many ways, with the exception of the highs, which I found to be harsh.   The killer for me, however, was not the highs themselves, but the ear-stabbing pain those highs induced very quickly (within a minute). This wasn't fatigue - this was pain.

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Get the ugly part out of the way --> These boys are unforgiving and bright and WILL show up your crappy music systems. If the recording was brightly mastered/crap, if your source is bad, if your cables are bright (esp. pure silver and silver plated stuff), if your amp/dac setup is too revealing THEN these babies are RUTHLESS. They will show up the brightness and amplify the crap out of the brightness to make ears bleed.

there was a comment bellow

Bright cans??? Bright cables, bright cards??? What are you talking about, man? HD668B are analytical, not bright. I use these on my Motorola Bravo. Though my bravo's right channel is a bit louder than the left and output is a little crappy, HD668B performs great and makes me forget about these disadvantages of the source. Of course, I admit that on Audigy 2 sound is much better. But anyway these sound great with my Bravo, with my PC, with the cheap, unbranded player I own.

It's probably listening at high volumes, since they aren't bass boosted at all. I mean, these are only two reviews that I found that on. Even if they are bright, i don't think they are that much to produce pain on average volume. My Sennheisers HD215are bright and they are unpleasant at really high volumes because they are not bass boosted. It's kinda logical.

Anybody who tested them?

Edit: 1st one wrote that other models in the store sounded the same. I actually have read, but forgot, that highs smoothes after burning them... finally found something. This might be the answer.

When I first put them on on I though that the highs will blow my head off. My ears got tired after 10 - 15 minutes. I though I would throw them out of the window. But having read some good reviews and advices regarding burning in the headphones I gave them a try. And now I must say WOOOOW.
 
After 8 - 10 hours of burning in (I left them plugged in to the computer, I put there some bass and treble heavy DnB and left for work). Whn i returned back, the highs became much softer, clear and completely bearable, and the bass was much fuller and deeper. I owned Senheiser HD 280 Pro and I have to say Superluxes are better. After proper burn in, when compared to HD 280s they have wider stereo range and more balanced overall sound. HD280s were more forward sounding, had worst mid frequencies and no full, deep bass.

I should also mention that I don't have an amp.