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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #1210 on: July 15, 2015, 06:23:41 AM »

Anyone heard the akg k181 dj? Is it any good? i'm looking for something a bit more lively in the treble with a bit more sub bass than my sennheiser hd 518.
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #1211 on: July 19, 2015, 03:35:04 AM »

Has anyone heard the Savant with the Angie side by side?
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #1212 on: July 19, 2015, 05:55:20 AM »

Anyone heard the akg k181 dj? Is it any good? i'm looking for something a bit more lively in the treble with a bit more sub bass than my sennheiser hd 518.

Decent, good isolation, but clamps quite a bit. Overall v-shaped sound; anything like that is going to sound more "lively" than the HD518. The subbass might technically be better but could feel rolled off due to the midbass hump common to many closed cans.
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #1213 on: July 22, 2015, 02:39:13 PM »

Any one with experience with the xba-z5?  Groupon had it for $400.
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #1214 on: July 22, 2015, 04:29:50 PM »

Decent, good isolation, but clamps quite a bit. Overall v-shaped sound; anything like that is going to sound more "lively" than the HD518. The subbass might technically be better but could feel rolled off due to the midbass hump common to many closed cans.

Not too V-shaped. The AKG-midrange is less present but acceptable and vocals still come through well. The stock M50 had less midrange for my ears, almost garbage if you ask me.

The bass is good. The DT1350 rendered bass grooves a little better but the midrange-highs transition with the K181 sounded better for my ears. There is one extra advantage with the K181DJ: bass boost. For some music it works very well.

Check out the measurements Solderdude made.
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #1215 on: July 22, 2015, 05:00:46 PM »

Anyone knows how to delete a head-fi account?
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #1216 on: July 22, 2015, 05:15:54 PM »

Anyone knows how to delete a head-fi account?

You have to ask for permission from a mod who'll run it up the chain at which point I was told it's 'impossible'. I already tried a few times and the best response I got was permission to go in and manually delete each post one by one. Obviously I have a couple thousand posts over there so didn't bother.
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #1217 on: July 22, 2015, 05:20:58 PM »

You have to ask for permission from a mod who'll run it up the chain at which point I was told it's 'impossible'. I already tried a few times and the best response I got was permission to go in and manually delete each post one by one. Obviously I have a couple thousand posts over there so didn't bother.

Thank you Anax. I was truly hoping it won't be like that. I gave them too much credit.
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #1218 on: July 22, 2015, 06:09:11 PM »

I imagine the Ashley Madison $20 charge to delete being in the news may give them ideas.
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #1219 on: July 24, 2015, 12:15:02 PM »

Ignore me.
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