postjack

sweet, how is it?

nice price at American Digital: http://www.american-digital.com/prodsite/product.asp?p=637 quarter a disc. I buy my MAM-As from them, they are good to deal with.

so i saw a bumper sticker last night. it was black with white text and it said: "Mark it 8, dude" I about shit my pants, I'd never seen one of those before.

You know, just off on a tangent, it seems that the personalities I take issue with on HF and elsewhere on the internet all have one thing in common: they are generally poor communicators through the written medium. They don't seem to "get" what their audience wants to hear in their tone. I'm thinking of course not just of sov but trose. The loud, obnoxious signatures, the use of multiple exclamation points at the end of every other sentence (!!), the perpetually defensive or aggressive tone: they are either always looking for threats or always lashing out at threats, real or imagined, all the while maintaining a "what, who, lil' ole me?" attitude.

I half way agree with you, and half way agree with the north atlantic treaty organization. In certain shining moments played at loud volumes with the Dynahi, I've found the HD650 can be absolutely brutal from the bass all the way up to the treble. But this is only certain moments.

Tmonk, like I said on IRC, the only headphone I have heard that fits this bill is the HP2. Whether or not it has a large enough soundstage to handle large classical works is debatable, but for me it was more then sufficient, and it certainly never felt clogged or muddy. At the same time it was able to handle hardcore metal with ease.

hey!!

NO, NOBODY LIKES BEETS!

Sorry I didn't answer this question earlier, I forgot you asked it. To my recollection, yes it isolates fairly well. Subway noise, not so sure. Let me run a few tests tonight and I'll let you know. [me=postjack]wonders how he is going to get an underground train in his house[/me]

Brief HF impressions, and a civil jab at Sovkiller.

I've been told they are the worst headphones ever. and people wouldn't lie to me!

you mean hamstered pickles?

holy shit!

Nice.

Why am I a bastard? :'( [me=postjack]cries[/me]

HAMSTERS HAMSTERS HAMSTERS HAMSTERS :dance:

Ack, sounds like it will be a project then. I'll give them a listen with the cracked pads, and if I like them enough I'll put the new pads on. Otherwise they'll be off to their new owner pads unreplaced.

SWIM actually uses them to burn out of print MFSL and DCC cds that SWIM acquires digitally.

Hmm, well spaceman said the pads on the Lambdas didn't need replacing. Do you think he replaced them since he bought them from you?

I like to move it, move it

MAM-A MAM-A MAM-A MAM-A http://www.american-digital.com/prodsite/product.asp?p=870&c=51&name=Mitsui80MinUnbrandedGoldSpindle These are the same CDs that MFSL uses for their gold discs. They are king of my CD-R world. Also available in brandless silver for half the cost.

I paid his asking price of $345 for the SRD-7, SR-Lambda, and an extra set of pads. Whenever someone offers an extra set of pads in a headphone deal, its hard for me to turn down.

The Lambdas I bought from spaceman used to be yours.

So I bought a pair of Edition 9s. I've heard nothing but bad things about these cans from folks whose ears I trust, and nothing but good things from those with whom I don't seem to share any of the same sonic preferences, the sole exception being MaLoS, who I've spoken with about the W5000, which we both like. But when I saw a pair pop up for sale at a price I knew I could flip it for, my curiousity got the best of me, and I hit the paypal button. I was going to keep the purchase secret while I had a chance to do some more critical listening, but I figured jpak's spies would find out soon enough and call me out as a closet Ultrasone lover. I'm at work right now, but we are super slow, so I figured I'd take the time to share my impressions from listening last night. The headphones have approximately 375 hours of play time on them, just one full earth's rotation away from the magical burn-in crescendo of 400 hours. Build Quality: No doubt, the Edition 9's are impressive looking and feeling phones. They have a decent heft to them (think a little less heavy then the HP2), and the housing is shiny and cool to the touch, however, it picks up fingerprints very easily (but they are just as easily wiped away). The leather on the pads and on the pad underneath the headband is extremely soft. The weak point in the Edition 9 is the cable, which seriously looks like the HD580/HD600 cable, very thin and unimpressive. The can screams out for recabling. Comfort: The cans are fairly comfortable, I'd say 3.5/5 on the five star comfort scale. Keep in mind my head is of the larger variety (as I've said many times before, I can't even really effectively use the K701, the bottoms of the cups raise up the bottoms of my ears). The Ed. 9 uses some kind of weird fitting mechanism, whereby the top of the headband pushes down on the top of the head, while the earcups clamp over the ears. At first the headband pressure gave me horrible memories of the K701 painful strap of doom, but my fears were quickly allayed; the soft leather pad under the headband feels quite pleasant, and indeed I forget all about it while I'm listening to music. I've heard stories about intense clamping pressure, but I experience none of this, possibly because one of the two previous owners (jmcjammasterj & jp1231234343)loosened the headband. The cups are indeed tiny, the smallest circumnaural cups I've encountered, but like MaLoS pointed out in his review o'er yonder, this eliminates the margin of error for where to place your ears in the cup. 'Cause there is only one place to put them . My ears fit inside fine, and I've seen no need to try to the Sovkiller power cable mod. Sound Bass: Yes, the Edition 9 has impressive, slamming bass response that reaches very low and can be pretty intense. The bass seems to be non-discriminatory, sounding fantastic on excellently mastered audiophile grade recordings as well as modern brickwalled Slayer albums. Porcupine Tree's In Absentia and Opeth's Ghost Reveries do indeed rock the fuck out drum and bass wise. Some trance music, like Paul Van Dyk, is also superb. Mids: Flat, cold, perhaps overly neutral. Nothing new to say about the midrange here, it is far and away the can's weakest point. Not really etched, grainy, or recessed, just really flat. Treble: Still working on this one. Sometimes it can be too bright, sometimes it has a pleasant sparkle, sometimes it gets lost in the bass cloud and almost sounds Sennheiser-veil-esque. Weird. Soundstage: Pretty damn good soundstage for a closed can, this must be the "s-logic" . Bigger then I remember the W11JPN being, probably slightly larger then the RS-1 as well. Tone and Timbre: jp12134324 described the Ed. 9 as having a rubbery, plastic texture, and I agree that this is a fair assessment, though I think rubbery is the more appropriate of the two adjectives. This rubbery sound starts in the bass and drips its way up through the midrange and sometimes the treble. The Edition 9 has a tonal character all its own, and it will impose this character on everything you play through it. I think this is what we call a "colored" headphone. In a way, this kind of reminds me of the HD650, only with the HD650 its not nearly as all-encompassing, but the Sennheiser flagship does have a tonal character (called veil by some) that subtly imposes itself on everything you listen to. More impressions to come, I need to leave work and head to school now.

His favorite headphone by far is the SoundOn PHR-400.