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In the Thread: Interested in reading more of your headphone experiences
Post Subject: ATH-40fs and the most interesting headphone amps to mePosted by SearcherOfBetterSound on: 5/2/2007
Ok, I ordered this a day before making the thread, and got them yesterday. These are overall the best headphones I've used, having neutrality, details, and natural sound. What's important to note is that when you touch the back or inside, you don't really "feel" the sound waves or any real material vibrations, which is probably something to think about in good headphone sound... I think all good big "closed" headphones will leak some sound like these do too (most do I believe anyways), otherwise something's probably up, and I don't even think it's that possible to NOT leak noticeable sound at normal volumes considering the big drivers, the cups..unless maybe your in a noisy environment. Use small in-ears if you don't want anyone to hear what you are listening to (which to me, is more important than blocking out external sound, but in-ear are also the best at that too..music on especially)...but some of them can actually be pretty hard to drive for some portables.
Sort of hard to tell if I like the headphones more alone or with the amp, but I'd say the amp improves the sound pretty reasonably or at least is good for louder volume. Ok, so I've recently did a considerable amount of "window watching" on quite a bunch of tube headphone amps...and I'll say the most interesting ones in overall aspects or instincts I feel now, are the Radii ones and the Antique Sound Lab ones (coincidently, both also sell impedance converters and have 5 headphone products I think)...I guess it sort of makes sense why I feel this way, both create other reasonably professional looking and varying products too (which could equal more experience), unlike a lot of other makers, that sort of probably focus too much on headphones or expensive prices.Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site