Stride

Silver=bright. Your anthropomorphising. It's probably mild enough, at this stage, that you can help yourself.

Listen to music, not adapters.

Honestly, I've had the same experience.

Comparison with using same new pads and cable on both headphones. Reason why I left it in storage was because I was too lazy to get rid of the mouldy smell.

The older HD650s sound better, imo. Probably never gonna sell mine. (15+ yrs old)

I think mine is 2010ish (silver grill). Would think there should be no difference with 1st run of HD6XX. FR sounds similar but the HD650 sounded more natural (attack and decay was spot on vs that tiny bit of blur, did not sound as veiled). Might be a case of neurosis or might have a better matched pair, but maybe just lucky *shrugs*.

Some people still like DS over MB, hard to know for sure w/o apples to apples comparison.

I did not expect to get a marked improvement switching from my PC Unison to Pi2AES. Really felt that my PC was holding BF2 performance back quite a bit.

BF2 > Modius to my ears on Pi2AES. Wider and deeper soundstage, more natural position in the image, realistic timbre and neutral FR over slightly V-shape sound from Modius. These strengths were not highlighted on PC with Unison/WASAPI which was surprising. Wish BF2 had AES input option.

Isn't the output z a bit high for them? I have the TH-X00 (Mahogany) but never considered plugging a 25 ohm headphone into a 27 ohm or 54 ohm output to be a good idea. How hot does the amp get?

Didn't realise this. Sound distracted me from the heat in the room. Amp was warm to the touch but this is during a cold Sydney night. However, was quite surprised how much bass I was hearing compared to listening on HD6XX and HD800 that I could not stop.

Impedance Response of the TH-series is actually mostly flat for a dynamic. I have no issues with the TH900 (25 ohms) from the Feliks Euforia AE (>50 ohms OI), maybe a bit bloomy around 3k, but the FR measures the same vs Dragonfly Cobalt (near 0 OI)

I like Shostakovich's Symphony No.5 In D Minor, but really, just use something you're really familiar with that you know has big drop/dynamic swings. A lot of my evaluation is listening to crappy pop and various genres of rock.

Thanks! My music library primarily contains 80s and 90s pop and rock music and wanted to hear better/easier examples to better demonstrate dynamics. Much appreciated!

I listen to a lot of that stuff too! Also check out some movie soundtracks; might be cliche but "Don't Want To Miss A Thing" by Aerosmith works.

Rafe fuckery knows no bounds

It's kinda like a divorce, sending back the records so you can move the f**k on.

I thought that Ra**e had put it all in the trash.

I feel that more about the hd650, but I do love my hd800s as well.

...it's a pot. How low is low.

Yeah... got a Klipsch HP3 which I have to listen at 7-8 position. Low impedence headphones is the problem.

Currently temporarily living in a 1600sq ft duplex. I actually quite like it compared to the 2400sq ft 4bdrm house that we sold in April. There's something refreshing about simplifying and downsizing.

I should say that the house was great and all - it had beautiful wood floors, lots of trees, a fruiting pear tree and a large yard. I'm just enjoying the simpler life at the moment. Our yard gets mowed weekly by someone else, I'm 100yds from my child's school and soccer practice, we purged a lot of "stuff", etc..

@Grahad2, yes, the soulless commute is definitely a disadvantage.
And it encourages interest in IEMs!

You should cut stuff out of your life that brings this kind of negativity. I wouldn't come here if it made my bad days worse.

I like reading impressions of upcoming and interesting gear here cause you learn a few things. Probably gonna have to try cat videos instead of here for a relaxing activity.

@Stride, Try engineering, machine, and reviewing tools to destruction. AvE will cheer you up! How can you be angry when you just watched a guy opening a kitchen-gadget box with a chain saw?

Probably a bug for now. Happened before.

On instinct disliked a rando noisy post and went through. Felt good for a second. Now realise do not want this power and undisliked.

Seems like it. I accidentally disliked some posts while browsing with my iPad in landscape view

Prolly plenty of other IEMs, honestly. Haven't heard one that sounded "bad" with it as yet.

I will second preferring the tonality of the ZX2 with SoundEnhancement off versus the newer gen. But I don't use the Andros enough to justify the ZX2...

Interesting to find the ZX2 has similar retail price to the wm1a. Guess I have to plan another visit to the store and see if I get wowed.

ZX2 can regularly be found for under $600 USD. If you score a B stock Andromeda it's still a big chunk of change but it beats out a lot of bigger rigs.