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In Reply to: RE: after 4 years of going to the socal canjam the winner is... posted by trioderob on April 28, 2016 at 16:45:42
to me the 3 types of cans had their own soundthe orthos have a very nice bass slam and impact. they can rock and are exciting. the thing that I dont like about them is that they are very "dark". in other words there is a sonic signature to them and if you have heard the hifiman and audeze you know the sound. not sure I like that.
they are not dry sounding tho.the dynamic headphones fall far below the the orthos in general. and like i said I heard them all (or close to it) there is a dry quality to them that i dont like even when hooked to tube amps. the upper bass is dry sounding on all the ones I heard. bass slam and inpact can be good but just not liquid sounding. some of them are REALLY overated. the high ohm cans with a OTL amp are not bad. some can be very comfortable.
the electrostatics are at the top of the heap. lightning fast dynamics. high end the is very extended without being brittle. transients are jaw dropping. upper and mid bass is perfect. with the right recording can be spooky real sounding. dynamic are good also. bass is weird very extended and accurate but not the classic ortho "slam". very good for extended listening.
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I say it's all good.
"If people don't want to come, nothing will stop them" - Sol Hurok
I would tend to agree.I keep a small stable full of headphones. Different sonic signatures or sonic perspectives serve different types of music, different types of musical events, different types of recordings.
Planar, dynamic, electrostatic - they all have their seats on the steps of the Pantheon. I wouldn't dream of asking one type of headphone to do everything for me 100% of the time.
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remember if you want the best- there is just one brand !
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I can believe that Stax stats are one of the best being sold on the market today. The new $65,000 Sennheiser Orpheus system would probably provide some stiff competition, though. Have you heard it yet?If I had the money and I wanted to keep only one pair of 'phones the Stax/Blue Hawaii combo would definitely be on my short list...
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the Cavalli audio was really nice too - spooky "you are there" sound
... of some of the better amps for the Stax headphone. You may have read it already, so I post for the sake of anyone who has not already done so...
I have the Stax SR-009 and the Ray Samuels A10 Thunderbolt preamp/electrostatic headphone amp. Unfortunately Tyll, didn't roll tubes in the A10. With the right tubes, the A10 is a great amp for the
SR-009. The A10 is also the best tube preamp that I've ever owned and I've had a few really good ones including the CAT SL1 Ultimate, Audible Illusions Modulus 3A and a Conrad Johnson PV11.
I also owned 2 planar headphones, the HiFiMan HE6 and the Audeze LCD X, and 3 dynamics, the Sennheiser HD800 hardwired with 18 gauge Zeus OCC copper cable, a highly modified Denon D7000 (Lawton Audio LA-7000) and a highly modified AKG K340. My amp for all of my non-electrostatic headphones is my Audio GD Master 9 solid state balanced amp that outputs 9 watts into 40 ohms. I like my SR009 the best but all of them are really great headphones and I can see how others may disagree based on personal preferences. As much as I like headphones though, I always prefer either of my speaker systems to any of my headphones. I turn to my headphones only for private listening due to me not wanting to disturb family members.
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