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svyr

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Re: My own impressions on HD700, Shure SRH1840 and Denon D7100
« Reply #10 on: September 16, 2012, 04:17:28 AM »
Quote from: wnmnkh on September 15, 2012, 08:42:28 AM
One thing I noticed is that they finally fixed painful treble present on old Denon headphones, however they have slightly stronger bass response, which I disliked.

good i wasn't imagining the painful treble spikes


>however they have slightly stronger bass response,

I'm surprised they managed to find even more somewhere
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Re: My own impressions on HD700, Shure SRH1840 and Denon D7100
« Reply #11 on: September 16, 2012, 08:53:14 PM »
Hmm, I just listened to the D7100 in a store, and compared to the D7000, it was just like they had taken all the little faults of the D7000 and increased them vastly. And then made them look 'orribly too... The bass was too intrusive, the midst were a bit bland as a result, and the treble was just reasonable. But the worst was that they seemed to resonate all over the place - the more complicated the music got, the more muddy an confused they sounded. To me it smells like they kicked out the professionals (fostex) and just decided that acoustic chambers and dampening are for scrawny wussies, and just too what according to them is supposed to be a headphone sized speaker driver, and slapped it in a cup, then asked a half blid guy to copy the beats design. But because he was half blind he just saw the reflections of the glossy surface and thought it was the actual shape, and thus they ended up with an organicly shaped beats-lookalike with a headband that makes you look like the 2012 version of the Jaclin-floats meme...

Short version: I'm not a fan!  :)p14

I find it really sad if major companies are starting to mess things up for themselves...
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Re: My own impressions on HD700, Shure SRH1840 and Denon D7100
« Reply #12 on: September 16, 2012, 08:58:28 PM »
Nice impressions, thanks for posting wmnkh!  :)
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Re: My own impressions on HD700, Shure SRH1840 and Denon D7100
« Reply #13 on: September 16, 2012, 10:08:58 PM »
Quote from: The Headphone Viking on September 16, 2012, 08:53:14 PM
Hmm, I just listened to the D7100 in a store, and compared to the D7000, it was just like they had taken all the little faults of the D7000 and increased them vastly.


ROFL!
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Re: My own impressions on HD700, Shure SRH1840 and Denon D7100
« Reply #14 on: September 18, 2012, 02:25:43 AM »
Quote from: purrin on September 15, 2012, 04:35:41 PM

You can always TP mod the LCD3 to bring it closer to the r2.

Buy a $2000 dollar headphone to mod it to sound closer to a $1000 dollar headphone. !!!!!

But in all seriousness IMHO the LCD-3s are a touch better than the LCD-2s to me, no mod required!!.

But I'm a hifiman-esque signature guy.
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Re: My own impressions on HD700, Shure SRH1840 and Denon D7100
« Reply #15 on: September 18, 2012, 04:23:21 AM »
Depends on the LCD3 and LCD2 in question and what you are listening for.  I'd take an M50 over some of the earlier LCD3's I've heard. 
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Re: My own impressions on HD700, Shure SRH1840 and Denon D7100
« Reply #16 on: September 18, 2012, 04:24:59 AM »
M50 comparison FTW!
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Re: My own impressions on HD700, Shure SRH1840 and Denon D7100
« Reply #17 on: September 18, 2012, 08:56:33 AM »
Heard the LCD-3 twice.

Once when it was fresh out of the oven.

Another when it cooled down.

Frankly could not tell the difference. It was about 4 months apart?

I appreciate what the LCD-2s are (one of the best headphones I've ever heard, smooth as can be with bass that just makes me wanna go OOOOHHHHH) , but I'm not a fan of the signature. I'll be caught wanting for some air and space to breath..  as well as maybe a little more treble. I always feel slightly suffocated with the LCDs.

Like my head being pressed onto/inbetween a pair of ridiculously large [redacted]s.


Edit: As for the M50 comparison. Well...  that's a little too..  far fetched no?

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Re: My own impressions on HD700, Shure SRH1840 and Denon D7100
« Reply #18 on: September 18, 2012, 11:23:27 AM »
Quote from: Analixus on September 18, 2012, 04:23:21 AM
Depends on the LCD3 and LCD2 in question and what you are listening for.  I'd take an M50 over some of the earlier LCD3's I've heard.
Agreed. My first one was so bad the only way to get decent clarity was to crank up the volume to insane levels: gave me severe tinitus.

The problem with "good" LCD-3s is the upper-mids are so shelved that it sounds like the sound is muffled and the bass fatter than it really is. I agree with the suffocating impression: it's like the sound cannot "escape". It's like those were designed to listen to bad treble-boosted current remasters ???.

I guess that's why many prefer LCD-2.2s.

IMOHO, stock LCD-3 are pretty awful with good masters, but lift the upper-mids (I also slightly roll-off the bass) with EQ (wish I could find an easy mod ala Anax's HD800) and they really sound good: not as transarent as HD800 but close and with a visceral sound that is addictive with rock. And crashing cymbals do sound "real", not mechanical as they sometimes sound with HD800.
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Re: My own impressions on HD700, Shure SRH1840 and Denon D7100
« Reply #19 on: September 29, 2012, 05:54:50 AM »
LCD3s actually reminded me a lot more of HE400s than LCD2s, laid-back, but still highly detailed in the upper treble registers.
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