TMoney

Saw the article yesterday! Congrats! Move the beats solo review to your front page temporarily?

I just went looking for the HE90 measurements as well. Were they ever publicly posted?

A friend recommended this... fantastic!

As far as understanding the measurements, If memory serves me correctly I believe Tyll posted some primers on his measurement techniques back when he first started up inner-fidelity. I bet with a little searching you'll have no trouble finding them. Once you read them, it helps to start going through his reviews and try to see if you can match up his subjective impressions with the objective measurements. Once you've looked at enough of Tyll's reviews you start to get a feel for how the measurements influence his subjective impressions. Eventually you'll be able to look at the measurements and intuitively guess how the headphones are going to sound. Tyll can comment here, but in reading his reviews I can't really remember any occasion where his impressions haven't been borne by the measurements. As far as what conclusions I draw, I know I hear things somewhat similarly to Tyll so between the measurements and his subjective impressions I feel like I can get a pretty good idea for how the headphone is going to sound relative to the gear I've had and heard.

What are you talking about? Have you seen Tyll's measurements from his "world-class" shootout? The frequency and square wave responses sure as heck seem to do a good enough job of explaining the "significant difference in the sound of the bass between the LCD-2 and the SR-009" to me.

^ Great post. Couldn't agree more with what you've said and the points you made.

And.... how does it sound?

Great job, Greg. Sounds like you are getting close to having them make a little music.

Anyone got a pair of HE90 or HE60 to send in? I'd love to see how they stand up to the stats Tyll's already measured.

^ Amen

Sounds like something Brian Eno threw in the trash.

ORLY? You mean besides yourself and the money-bags ESLs over on Head-Fi? /kidding

Jeez, just what the trolls in the LCD-2 thread over there needed. I sure would hate to have just plunked down on a "rev 2" only to have this come out a few weeks later.

Holy Moly! Tyll's been busy: http://www.innerfide...-404-and-sr-003

http://www.innerfidelity.com/content/great-motorcycling-headphones-jays-q-jays-and-etymotic-er6i

As for my 009s, is there any reason you need to keep them around? I don't mind letting you hold on to them if there is a need.

Now if only someone had some HE60/HE90 they wouldn't mind parting with... It'd be nice to have those measured as well.

I'm honestly shocked how much my impressions of the headphones you used in the review matched yours, Tyll. I've never owned or spent extensive time with the HiFiMan gear so I won't comment on those, but I agree with you on almost everything else. Lambda/Omega 1/O2 mk2 owners, time to get this man moar gears to measure!

Awesome job on the review Tyll! I remember getting back from seeing a jazz quartet at the Village Vanguard a few weeks ago and throwing on the 009s to listen to one of the quartets older albums. Seriously... after listening to a 90 minute live set it was hard to tell the difference between the live set and the 009s playing the album. On Jazz they just seemed that good. The detail and tonality the 009s can present make them very hard to distinguish from the real deal. I didn't want to post about it at the time because it sounded way too corny and because I'm generally skeptical of my own impressions, but after reading your review it's nice to know that I'm not totally crazy. They really are Jazz monsters.

Wonderful work so far, Tyll. Can't wait to see your full written review. I'm hoping to see a bit of a comparison between the current contenders for King of the "Headphone" Hill if you have the time to work one in to your review. Given that the 007s, 009s, LCD2s and HD800s all seem to measure exceptionally well, I'd be particularly interested to hear any thoughts you might have on how they compare to each other in both measurements and subjective impressions. In particular, I love to read your explanations of how your subjective impressions match up (or contrast with) with the objective measurement data. As others here have mentioned, to the untrained eye it looks like the 007 is outperforming the 009 on the two square wave tests and in impulse response tests you posted earlier this week. I would think the greater overshoots by the 009 would give it an edgier sound than the 007, yet in your subjective impressions the opposite is true. I'm wondering something similar about the LCD-2s as they seem (again to the untrained eye) to have the best square and impulse measurements of any headphones you've tested. Wouldn't that suggest that they should seem faster than the Stax? I've personally found the opposite to be true, but I'd love to hear your 2 cents. Any explanation you could give would be really helpful in the context of the current review as well as in interpreting your future data. I've been listening exclusively to the HD800s since I sent the 009s in to you. Could you include them in a compare and contrast section if you end up writing one? While I almost always found myself reaching for the 009s over the HD800s when both were here, I'm impressed by how well the HD800s have carried the load while the 009s have been away. Again, many thanks! Can't wait to see more 'stat measurements in the future.

^ Sweet! Thanks. I'm sure he'll let you know when to send them once he's done with the 009 extravaganza. In the meantime, don't forget to put your info on the spreadsheet on the first page.

Not one, but two SR-009s? Tyll's cup runneth over! Time for some lambda and OII mk1s to materialize and keep up the momentum.

Tyll et all, I just shipped the 009s out to Montana this morning. I hope the BHSE is on its way too. I'm excited to see how they measure. Hopefully we can get others to start volunteering to send in their Stax gear as well. Arnaud, Could you link to some kind of primer for understanding the waterfall type plots you've been posting about? The information sure looks pretty, but I don't really understand what I'm looking at. Thx.

The rains have already started here in NYC with the Hurricane expected to hit sometime early Sunday morning, so I'll plan on shipping the 009s out on Monday once the Hurricane is over.

Good luck, Monkey! You live in Battery Park City, right? Thats like 20 blocks south of where I'm at in the West Village. I heard they are evacuating most if not all of the Battery Park/Financial District Area.