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In Reply to: Also a natural crossfeed effect posted by Nirmala on December 25, 2007 at 15:39:56:
As I am trying to grasp what an incredible difference the Echofone has made to my system, I thought of a metaphor from my own experience. For the past few weeks I was going back and forth between my Audio Technica ATH-W1000 headphones and a pair of Etymotic ER4Ps. And each time I would switch, I was sure that I was happier with the phones I was listening to. The Audio Technicas have a fullness and warmth that the Etys can not touch. But the Etys have a detail and jump factor that would make the music come alive; especially with simple guitar or solo instruments the Ety would create the illusion of a live event. But then the thinness of their tone would wear on me and I would go back to loving the ATs.
Now with the Echofone combined with the ATH-W1000s, I have the best of both worlds. A fullness of tone and a hyper-real focus and sense of space. It is like I am using both the Ety and AT headphones at once. The Echofone adds in an incredible 3D soundstage that not only lets me hear each instrument clearly but also I can "hear" the room where the musicians were playing. If I turn down the Echofone to listen with just the ATs, the whole sense of the illusion of a live event collapses. Add in the Aura cushion for just a touch of visceral bass and the combination is complete.
Maybe there is no perfect headphone by itself, but this combination has it all.
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