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In the Thread: Interested in reading more of your headphone experiences
Post Subject: Here's where I stand now and what my future goals arePosted by SearcherOfBetterSound on: 4/26/2007
Hmmm...let's see, I'm pretty young, to the point where I don't have any major source of money income, so I do with what I can when I can and want to, just like many other suffering young and/or poor audiophiles. It's like this, I don't listen to any normal speaker system because I need privacy and can't concentrate/don't want to weird anyone out. My headphone system has this history going on that you all should hear... I think many go through this curse in a similar way: I get average stuff without being too knowledgable, random portable CD player, random but from popular companies headphones like a Panasonic, than I get more into this thing...and EVERY upgrade was never that satisfying or maybe even...worse? A Koss KTX-Pro comes in, along with as poor a headphone amp as it gets, no volume control...not good. The Koss alone is good, but then I vacuum the cord... Then a Sennheiser HD497 headphone after a Koss KTX-Pro, and was THE most uncomfortable, ear breaking, clamping headphone I've EVER worn...eh...I don't know, you know? Then a Sony D-NE20 portable CD player..."I don't know" again..there's just this "unsureness" that goes on..but this was actually not that bad, long battery life, as thin as it gets, light...just have to deal with somewhat confusing controls and sort of hard to press buttons and change the volume.. Then a Xenos headphone amp, with volume control, but I didn't need the equilization...sort of like a louder volume thing this amp was.. The Sennheiser cord screws up because I keep messing with it. Then I get a Sennheiser HD580...I might have preferred the HD497 in sound for all I care! (probably because the HD580 was big, inefficient and circumaural) but at least this was comfortable with similar or good or better sound more or less. Then I messed up the cord a SECOND time! I got a Altec Lansing in-ear (IM716?) and was my first taste of in-ear, the sound was good, more or less than the HD580 (also as inefficient), the privacy was comfortable but it itself might have been uncomfortable, but not forever, the foam got scrunchy and I stupidly threw them away even though they were better and not as hairy as the other cover. It can get clogged and the replacement thing sort of sucks (I even took it out and left nothing in after there was no more replacements, around when the sound of everything was burned in to a more noticeable extent), also losing the covers means bad seal. Later the sound of everything improved somewhat, the player, all that. Did I mention there's this sort of waiting thing going on between getting all this between MONTHS, for somewhat unsatisfying or making-me-feel "guilty" gear (because of the money, time, and talking into going on)? Well now I've been listening to a Sony MDR-V100, a closed vintage type headphone with a long cord, and it sounds as good more or less than anything else I've tried. Now I'm going to try out the Audio-Technica ATH-M40fs... I'll get some money sometime and try to figure out things better...this little story just sort of shows you gotta know some stuff before playing with money and small scale comparisons.Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site