n_maher

Between my dad and I we should be able to pull something decent off. Our last woodworking project was this:

Something like this...

Fit doesn't seem to be an issue, I'm getting a good uniform seal and external pressure on the cups doesn't change the sound in a positive way. I have found that their position on my head does make a difference and I'm not sure I've found the ideal placement yet.

Oh dear, the conversion has begun...

That'd be the understatement of the year. Sofaking hot is more like it.

I suppose that's fair payback for the sloppy seconds I leave you with! *zing*

At least twice a week or their vision starts to fail and their work gets sloppy.

Back on topic: The second half of my listening session at work yesterday was spent with the bass boost enabled. It filled out the lower end of the cans nicely without getting sloppy, which was a nice surprise. Some of the boost-effect seemed to help with the lower mid issue that I continue to have which was also a bonus. It will be interesting to see if I can achieve the same result with the M3 which has the variable bass boost option. In the mean time I'm going to have a go listening to them out of my Dared knockoff to see what a little tube-drive goodness will do to them but other than that I think I'll shelve further impressions until I have something decent to drive them with.

I could not agree more. Season 1 was great, it's been a pretty large turd since then.

I can't imagine that thrice builds them without sockets.

I'd bet changing the gain that little would make no difference at all.

I'd just call him and ask him. Seriously, I'm sure paid good money for it even as b-stock and only half of it is usable in my book and that makes it not worth keeping.

The real question is why aren't you returning the PH-1. The high-gain hiss sounds like enough of a reason to me.

This seems really weird to me, the part about the Marantz. I would have expected the output of the Zhalou to be pretty normal, like 2Vish and even if it was a good bit higher that it still wouldn't have caused issues with any modern receiver. Do you know what the output specs of the Zhalou are?

Keep it up jackass, we've been nice so far but your act is starting to wear thin.

mr. nice is the latest one to ignore the one rule of head-case, therefore he gets added to the list.

There are two buttons at the top of the page next to the "LOGOUT" button that should allow you to toggle both the left and right supplemental columns and allow for a wider message pane. I run with both sidebars shut off so that I get maximum thread space.

Postjack ftw with a Lewis Black reference. A++++++++++++++

Nums, I'd send the 701s to someone for a recable. Not me, mind you, but I bet someone around here could help you out and save you some serious aggravation.

There's a pretty damn cheap Outlaw 1050 on the 'gon right now that'd probably make a more than acceptable integrated if you ignore the other features that it has.

The 73T isn't listed on Arcam's site and reviews of the player mention that model # going all the way back to 2004. I *think* that it may refer to the CD text information feature, but I'm not sure. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I don't think there's much if any difference related to the 't' suffix.

Where are you located again? I could probably make the Arcam available if you're interested in trying it out.

Paging Johny Numbers and tyrion....

Yeah, that cuts to the chase nicely. Sure, I have biases, who doesn't? More than anything I'm biased towards a neutral, refined sound. The W5k's certainly get some of that very, very right, but so far not all of it.

My ears certainly adjusted more to the sound of the W5ks after a period of listening, sure. I spent well over 2hrs exclusively listening to them Friday night and by the end of it I was no longer consciously aware (most of the time anyway) of the midrange issues that strike me upon first listen each time I put them on. I don't think that's really necessary. I don't expect them to sound like the HD650s, but I do expect them to have good tonal balance when compared to the 650s - I do not currently think they do. That's what I'm trying to say. What I'm saying is that if I have to build a system around them to get them to sound neutral I'm not interested. As I said, I think good headphones should be able to sound good (perhaps not great) when paired with other good components. None of my other three headphones sound bad with anything else. I'm not discounting the idea of synergy as I've witnessed it first hand but I also don't subscribe to the idea of having to have one setup for each set of headphones. To me that's just using the rest of your equipment to provide the right coloration for the headphones. Clearly in my rig right now the bottleneck is in the amp department and so I'm reserving final judgement on these headphone until I hear them with at least a couple of amps that I would view as more than adequate. These are certainly still early impressions and I reserve the right to update them, flip flop a few times and so on before making any sort of final judgement. I'm currently listening to them at work with a small class A SS amp and again they sound pretty good. I'm giving them a bit of a bass boost to see if that helps further but it's not like I want to throw them off my head or anything. I just have high expectations for a $700 headphone, I don't think that's so wrong, is it?