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hehe i like my rock with AKG 501 for a large soundstage and not too much mind-bending bass. Although sometimes the bass is really too soft for me.

Well its because some of us heard other phones before trying the senns and finding that the veil is just too much too bear. Those who heard only the 580/600 will probably not notice the veil and may even like it depending on your taste.

yes mackie, i do agree that if you have $1000, the priorities will be from source,amp,headphones. Lets leave out interconnects and tweaks here and focus mainly on source and headphones ok? The reason being because headphones are mini speakers that can achieve plenty with little money. But what Northern Oak said was Components that will make the biggest impact on sonic performance. Thus if going by his analogy, one would reasonably spend S$120 on headphones, $200 on amp and $680 on source. But i doubt it would sound better if compared with a $300 headphones, $200 amp and and $500 on source. A cheaper sony v6 will never be able to compare to a AKG 501. What i'm thinking here is that, if you have a limited amt of money, first you should get a set of better headphones. Only when you got yourself a good set of headphones that you like then should you consider thinking about better amps and sources. A pair of grados and sennheiser will sound forward(grados) and laidback(senns) no matter what amp/source is in the chain. One should find a pair of phones that you like before looking for other partners up the chain. Only until you get a good set of headphones should you start thinking about higher end sources that limits your phones. Sources cost way more than headphones. Comparing speakers and headphones, headphones are nearer to your ears, cheaper and more efficent than speakers. Headphones that costs 3 digits will sound better than speakers costing 4 digits. Therefore it is not unreasonable to spend more on sources when using headphones. When I first bought my AKG 501, it sounds way better than a cheaper pair of senns that i used to have. Now that I'm satisfied with it, i'm looking forward to upgrade my sources in the near future. Summarising what i said in case i make it too confusing, I agree with Mackie that in terms of cash, more should be spent on sources in the long run. But as I said previously on Northern Oak's comment, you should get at least a pair of headphones with a sound signature that you like before thinking about getting better/more expensive sources.

actually i do not think that sources make as much differences as headphones. headphones should be slotted into 2. and push others down. grados, sennheisers, akg all sound way different from each other. even diff models of each brand can sound very different. if headphones like beyers 770 that has strong bass, no sources can change much of it. one should search for the ideal headphones first before settling down to tweak sources, amps etc to your liking.

ya lor ablaze, i'm very interested to know how you manage to buy and sell so many stuff and yet be a student! got credit card somemore.

yea but i do want to try ting's AT w1000 and the beyers esp the 880 if its available at your place.

hmmm can also. But my stupid gilmore v2 haven't arrive yet!! if i go end of this week, i'll probably make another trip down again with the v2 for rameish to test.

wow what a big upgrade! hmmm marantz. warm with strong bass sounds like a perfect match with the 501s. congrats Sorry for your wallet!!

good review but unfortunately i haven't heard any of the tracks you listed. How about some basic comparisons like treble, midrange, bass and soundstage?

even cable doesn't always have fixed ip though.

ah??? u mean it really its one of our members?

Now then I read this Too late, my wife already wash for me... Any better ways to rid the pads of smell? try using Febreze. A fabric spray that removes germs and odours. i've not used it on my headphones before but should better than the pads disintegrating.

unfortunately it's hot in and out. and I won't ever bring my large headphones out.

woah no wonder you have no need for that replay gain stuff. Lossless files are super big leh. now i use mpc for my cds.

the dsp moves the sound from the front (green) channels to rear (black) channels. you use the headphones via the rear channel. quite useful if you don't want the loud icq msg give u a shock while you're in nirvana. replaygain sort of equalises the volume of your files so that you don't have to keep adjusting the volume while skipping from album to album. do you rip your cds to the comp? if so what format do you use?

nowadays i seldom use headphones unless i'm in an air cond room. even at night, its pretty warm as well. With my Sony CD1700, the enveloping earpads, although very comfortable, proves too warm and suffocating for my ears. The AKG 501 is slightly better, open and with unique padding makes it cooler. The hot singapore weather calls for some etys! What headphones and ideas do you have for our sunny singapore (esp during the summer periods which makes it worse than usual) ?

yea i'm using directx9 now. solved the problem for a while and came back again. try the dsp, moving stereo to rear channels. quite useful if u want to use headphones for music and speakers for windows sound. do you use replay gain?

ya loh it'll be damn childish to track someone down just for a minor problem. it gives him more reason to leave this place.

hmmm damn it. stupid microsoft. tried 0.6 already. using ks, 24bit padded to 32.

another question. it seems that the revo doesn't support directsound? it appears as revolution(emulated) under both winamp and foobar. I had it solved for a while and its back again as emulated??

u need something like this. http://www.headphone.com/layout.php?topicI...ctID=0060210000 I donno where to get them though.

i believe they are still called the CD3000.

i guess no one replied because not many people here have experiences with grado.

haha. he was at aldephi and Mackie's house too.

actually adding an 'in' to famous totally changes the meaning of famous. i spotted the XLO today in aldephi's disc village. the shop carries mostly high quality recordings stuff and the uncle is very friendly too. he lets people test CDs using his pretty good speaker system. can be tested using headphones too but i can't recommend it as the speaker is too loud. Recommended.