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Headphone listeners

EeePee said:
Woo hoo! Congrats, and sorry about your wallet. :mrgreen:

I enjoyed my low on the ladder SR-60s for many years, like 15 years actually. From what I understand some people prefer the 225i more than the 325i, as it just comes down to personal preference. I kinda come from the if it costs more it's better camp, so good job on the 325i choice. :mrgreen:

Burn them suckers in!
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It was really close for me with the 225 and 325. Like I said, to my ears the 325s just had a slightly fuller sound, a tad warm if you can use that term when describing Grados. I would not have been disappointed with the 225's either. Plus, my SR-325's are the 325i's so they are that sexy 50th Anniversary Gold color 8)
 
Got my Meelectronics M6. They're cheap enough that I don't care about running in them, but sound good enough that I'm selling off my Sennheisers. They are also really comfortable!

And now I can go buy a Sidewinder with the money I get from the Sennheiser!
 
Lets move into noise cancelling options. Who has real life experience with some decent ones? I listened to the Bose QC15's today and they were pretty nice. I think the audio quality could be a little better but it may have just been the source as well. (he was streaming something on his phone) but as far as the noise cancelling goes, they were pretty impressive.
 
Oh yeah, this thread. :ror:

Noise canceling would be sweet at my work, but I think that part would be overworked trying to cancel out constantly annoying coworkers and loud machines. I just got an iPod touch, and as absolutely shitty as the stock earbuds sound, I can live with it. There's so much backround noise that it doesn't matter how crappy they sound. There's no way anything could overcome all the noise. Instead of noise, I'll call it dither, and pretend it helps.


The real reason I'm posting is because I've taken the first step towards amplifying my Sennheiser HD-800s finally. With what you ask?
 
Nah, the Woo 5LE :shock:


































Yeah the effin blue thingy. :ror:

I just couldn't ever pull the trigger on any of the Woo amps. I struggled for a couple months trying to do it, then I read more and more about the Sonett, and it was like, "Yeah, this is what I want!"

I'm surprised I went with a transformer loaded amp, but hey, no $400 caps to worry about then. And only two tubes to seek out.

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I have about $450 to spend on a pair that will work good with my iPhone.... I listen to about 6 hours of music a day and I want it to sound good!!! Looking into an external amp for this iPhone too...


I do have a pair of noise canceling bose on earphones (qc-15) so I would like for the sound to be better than what I currently have

Ideas?
 
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Not exactly, but your iPhone only sounds so good. We'll call it the weakest link. So why spend more than you need to? What about the current headphones you use aren't you happy with?
 
EeePee said:
Not exactly, but your iPhone only sounds so good. We'll call it the weakest link. So why spend more than you need to? What about the current headphones you use aren't you happy with?
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I mean they are fine, but would an amp help me out at all?
 
More available current always helps. Like a 45C battery over a 35C battery.

If you did the line out from the iPhone to an amp, that'd be better than the built in headphone out.
 
Now what would I get from the amp? Louder? More Bass? Im new at all this stuff but it interests me!

Thanks for the help so far!
 
F1GHTF1R3W1THF1Re. said:
Now what would I get from the amp? Louder? More Bass? Im new at all this stuff but it interests me!

Thanks for the help so far!
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The ideal amp is a straight wire with gain (no sound signature of its own), so yeah, louder, but still better compared to no amp because of more available current, and that means better control of the voice coil that is connected to the speaker.

Yesterday I got the next piece in the headphone rig. A simple mini optical cable that plugs into the back of my Mac. I'm now going from my Mac to an old Theta Cobalt digital to analog convertor, then into this old Griffin Powerwave amplifier. So now I'm doing the signal converting and amplifying outside of the noisy computer.

I let it burn in for an hour with pink noise then put the headphones on and was instantly amazed at the difference in sound quality. I went straight to a couple favorite tracks I have in Apple Lossless format, and I was able to hear considerably deeper into the music. For instance on vocal decays. They now go waaaaay back there where before they were cut short. I didn't know this til now. When I first got these headphones I kept getting startled by things, like a quieter passage, then pause, then BLAM!!!! and I'd jump a little bit. Then that stopped happening, but it's happening again. I remember a Primus track from Pork Soda, Herbs drums have never been more defined than now.

Not bad for a $4 cable hooked up to a convertor and small Class T (tripath) amp from the early 90s. Not bad at all!

I CANNOT wait! for my tuber amp to get here.

Only downside is no volume control on the Mac itself, so I have to use the iTunes volume slider. Good part is my iPod Touch has an app called Remote, and I can use it to adjust volume and control iTunes. So with the ten foot headphone cord and that, I can go sit over there in the chair and have at it.
 
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