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Re: MadDog Measurements
« Reply #60 on: June 05, 2013, 04:38:27 PM »

You want to me ship them off to Dan instead?
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Re: MadDog Measurements
« Reply #61 on: June 05, 2013, 08:32:19 PM »

You want to me ship them off to Dan instead?

Let me PM Dan and get back to you...
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Re: MadDog Measurements
« Reply #62 on: June 30, 2013, 04:39:57 PM »

Just wanted to chime in now that I've had the 3.2 revision on hand for a few days. The hump around 200Hz-1KHz seems to have been smoothed out, which I am quite enjoying. They sound less "dry" than before, which I had mentioned a few times in the past. I'm thinking that's probably due to the reduction in that area...? I can't say for sure, but the treble also seems smoother as well. So, overall, they sound smoother and more natural...whatever that might mean.

Though, yes, I would have preferred this right off the bat when I first purchased the Mad Dog, I'm really satisfied with how they sound right now and don't mind the additional $30 fee so much. I think anyone jumping on board right now is getting a pretty good deal for $300.
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Re: MadDog Measurements
« Reply #63 on: June 30, 2013, 05:03:39 PM »

The 3.2 I'm trying out still has a noticeable bump in the upper bass- lower midrange are around 3-500hz, but it's nothing that takes away from its sonic quality.  I would think the more bump in that area the more juicy the song.  I would never categorize upper bass and lower mids as dry.
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Re: MadDog Measurements
« Reply #64 on: June 30, 2013, 06:47:59 PM »

The 3.2 I'm trying out still has a noticeable bump in the upper bass- lower midrange are around 3-500hz, but it's nothing that takes away from its sonic quality.  I would think the more bump in that area the more juicy the song.  I would never categorize upper bass and lower mids as dry.

Hm, I will have to see if I can hear anything around that area. Never said it was perfect, just that the broad area in general sounded more smoothed out to me. :)

I'm not entirely sure what it was about the MD 2.0 and 3.0 that made me think "dry," though the 2.0 revision sounded "dry" compared to the Paradox I used to have (Paradox seemingly had more output in the 100-300Hz area). The 3.0 revision primarily boosted the mids, IIRC. Having recently heard how surprisingly sharp and grating the 2KHz spike is on the K702 65th AE, I'm beginning to wonder if it was the reduction in the 1-2.5KHz area (as shown in Dan's measurements) combined with what sounds like an overall smoother response before that point which gives the 3.2 less of a "dry" sound. I keep putting dry in quotes because I'm not really sure that's the correct term to be using...Just the best way I could describe it at the time. As you can probably tell, I am no audio master (but do my best and try to further what I know). ;)

Also keep in mind that it's been a few weeks since I've had the MD on hand, so I haven't been able to do any sort of real comparison other than that based off (potentially poor) memory.
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Re: MadDog Measurements
« Reply #65 on: July 26, 2013, 09:55:19 AM »

ATTN:

This pair was found to be kind of screwy. It got sent back to Mr.Speakers to get fixed. There was an issue with the input jack on the headphone. I could never get consistent measurements on one channel.

The below link has a measurement of the good channel:

http://www.changstar.com/index.php/topic,1020.msg26736.html#msg26736

I'm asking Mr. Speakers to send me another pair so I can take proper measurements of them.
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Re: MadDog Measurements
« Reply #66 on: July 27, 2013, 05:57:06 AM »

ATTN:

This pair was found to be kind of screwy. It got sent back to Mr.Speakers to get fixed. There was an issue with the input jack on the headphone. I could never get consistent measurements on one channel.

The below link has a measurement of the good channel:

http://www.changstar.com/index.php/topic,1020.msg26736.html#msg26736

I'm asking Mr. Speakers to send me another pair so I can take proper measurements of them.

I'm actually still having issues with my pair after getting them back, but I think it's just the 3.5mm cable. I can't reproduce the issue with the stock 1/4" cable. If you had issues with both cables, I'm not sure what's up!

I'm assuming Dan would send you a 3.2 unit, which I'm quite happy with.
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