I liked the K701 when I heard it, it didn't seem to do anything wrong, but it didn't seem to do anything that any of my other headphones did, neither, plus it wasn't a sound I "go after" (L3000/VTG/PS-1/etc.).
Also, way too white.
Their measurements don't have that same peak -- it only goes up to 310 on theirs. I just wrote John Atkinson and pointed it out and asked him to conjecture as to why the measurements would be different. I'd ask Tyll the same thing -- Tyll?
I constantly confuse Jim White and Joseph Arthur. And now that you mention Leonard Cohen, I hear that, too. Don't know what you're talking about on the other part, though. It's not part of any album, if that's what you mean -- it was a standalone single.
I'll have to hear some Mark Lanegan...
Well, (a) he already had some Schubert on his list, and ( he was talking about chamber music, and I consider Schubert to be the king of chamber music, so I thought it was a safe suggestion. It also doesn't sound as romantic as much post-Beethoven composers do, so still "sounds" pre-Beethoven.
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24/96, + one of my more favorite performances of it, and easily my favorite piece of chamber music ever.
Was reading the HD800 review in Hi>Fi+, here are a few excerpts:
Don't agree with the second one, which is why I quoted it. The Stereophile review also claims it's easy to drive, and they only measure the impedance (not even the frequency response). I'm tempted to write John Atkinson, since he probably has the ability to measure it correctly.