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First Sgheadphone meet impression

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just came back from the meet from pipee's house. thanks to pipee for his generousity for providing the location and meeting some others in the MRT.

here are some of my impressions from the meet. first of all, my purpose there was to try the higher end cans like stax, beyer 880, sony 3000 and AT W1000 which were present. the coming of etys has greatly changed my ideas on how high fidelity is defined. unfortunately, the great stax was absent and tee was greatly missed.

 

the below was tested on Mackie's MF cd player and X-cans V1. sorry for holding the position for so long cause i'm doing a 3 way cans comparison here! cannot blame.

 

sony 3000: exciting pair of cans with good bass. has outstanding soundstage, separation and instrument placement. loses to etys 4s for separation and placement. bass is strong and visceral but probably too heavy for me.

 

AT W1000: smooth pair of cans. bass is not as extended as sony 3000 but still remains tight. the treble might be slightly recessed.this one would be best for relaxing to and sounds most similar to etys that i tried. soundstager smaller than cd3000 and separation loses to the sonys too.

 

beyers 880: these beyers seems like a mix between sony 3000 and AT w1000. midrange sounds realistic and detailed. bass is in between the above two, tight and visceral but not overly strong. does well in separation and instrument placement but loses slightly to sony 3000 and etys but still probably a class above most other headphones. problem is in the treble though, slightly bright to me but rameish said it might be due to it having an extended treble. might be true as my present cans are quite smooth in the highs. with all the above cans, the instruments are layered compared to AKG 501 which doesn't do well in this area despite having a large soundstage.

 

did not try much amps as i feel that my present amp is fine enough to stay put for quite sometime. firefox flexed his DIY skills and opened up a few amps. some hardcore porn was taken too!

 

once again thanks to pipee for hosting and others for bring fine equipment to the meet. this meet was twice the size of january one! it certainly has improved.

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Nice first impression evil. Can't wait to see the porn & photos. I was nearly dying of boredom here!

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u guys in australia are gonna love the porn that they took.

sneak peeks:

evil's gilmore and 2 different creek ohb-11se.

 

anyway it's nice to meet the guys in SGH and get to listen to some high-end stuffs. Didnt do a comparsion though, i'm too inexperienced to do so.

 

best of all, mackie has tweaked my CDP so now it sounds even better! happy.gif

 

 

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You are really fast, evil-zen! innocent.gif

For me, I did a roughlly comparation of my w1000 and the cd3000 with rotel player and corda ha1.

Overally I still prefer the AT over SONY for it's more relaxing character. sony got thicker vocal, AT got smoother high, sony got biger bass but AT's base is tight and enough for me; soundstage wise, I feel w1000 is better, more transparent. Sony is good for those who prefer there sound powerful and energetic, and the AT is more for those who prefer a more smoother sound and more suit for classical.

 

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First of all, pipee deserves my deepest appreciation for letting out the place and fridge for us to raid during the entire session...esp for a camel like me who needs to drink a lot.

 

It's been a pleasure to know U chappies.

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I'm back!

gotta thank pipee too, for his generosity for hosting the meet (which was significantly larger a group than the 1st one..a sign of things to come wink.gif). thanks pipee! biggrin.gif

 

as always, I've realised meets are not exactly the best place to listen to headphones. especially the open cans. even for the closed cans, I was cranking up the volume to not hear the chaps yakking beside me hammer.gif BUT..it was still cool cos we all got to meetup. headphone meets=just a bunch of folks with the same interests getting together, on the pretext of headphone listening rolleyes.gif haha..biggrin.gif once again, great to meet y'all!

 

ok, now lets wait for "spammer" (new nickname) to come and give us his grand review of all the cans present with all the amps yeah.gif

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here's 1 nice pic

 

just a quick compression done

 

will post bigger pic soon when i find out how to use my software properly

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How to paste pictures? blush.gif

ting,

click "add reply" at the bottom

at the new page,

near the bottom, there's a "file attachment" part, where you can "browse" to the file on your hdd to upload!

 

or if you have uploaded it somewhere else,

use the [img?]image url[/img?] format (without the "?")

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