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In Reply to: RE: Review of Audioquest Nighthawk Headphones posted by JMCIII on August 24, 2015 at 06:02:22
before. Which HiFi Man and Audeze headphones did you think compared to the Audioquest?
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Audeze LCD-3's, HiFiMan HS560's, and Oppo PM-1's
Just my (adjusted for inflation) $2
John Crossett
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It sounds like English, but I can't understand a word you're saying.
John,
Thanks for your review, to say may interest is these headphones is only slight "peaked" would be a serious understatement ! I have a "Oh, no he didn't" story that ties into this !
I've been pretty happy with my "Reconstructed"(I honestly can't really just call them "modded"; It doesn't accurately describe all that I've done to them ) Sennheiser HD800s,but I absent mindedly pulled the right headphone cable , which I'd straight wired directly to the driver ,out ! Deconstructing these phones yet again is proving to be harder to do,this time around than I would have hoped it to be as the 4 screws holding the driver in place also hold the earcup basket to the frame & is covering my access to where I need to get to re-solder the cable back to the driver, are not cooperating with me !
I suppose I'll have to brainstorm this situation a bit more, but luckily I have a pair of Hifiman HE-6 that I can put back in use . These are great sounding headphones with a "built insomeone's basement" set of Ergonomics . I can't seem to get past how uncomfortable they
become after listening with them for a short period of an hour or so. My neck starts screaming at me after 40mins. or so !
Your comments & much of what Dale Thorn had to say about the Nighthawks have me very
interested in these phones. Oh, well let me see if I can make some progress on the HD800
, so my neck will thank me!
do report back with a comparison with the HD800.
TIA
My "Steveheiser"HD800 (after 2 days of trying to think & work outside the box) are "Not
gunna happen !"
My plan at this point (after my new headphone cable for them arrives) is use my Hifiman HE -6 for awhile . I guess I should start doing head strap dumbbell lifts to strength my neck muscles ! Im pretty certain I'll get a set of the 'Hawks when I can as I've seen a few non
Headphone Jargon decriptions of them that seem to be pushing a lot of my buttons !
When I do finally get them I'll let you know what I think (without using the jargon that is probably describing system colorations &/or recording colorations due to the fact they may not even be hearing the noisefloor of the recording ; In which case people are talking about the headphone colorations they prefer to hear).
Well, it appears the "knucklehead" (me) who went to re-solder the wires to the HD800 driver
terminals switched the position of the + & - wires. After correcting this ...(cough)... oversight
my phones are back in "Bidness"
(Now my only problem is , I think I'd like to swap out the DHC "Molecule" headphone cable
I used to another aftermarket headphone cable I have ; This won't be in the works until the
HE-6 cable shows up) (Nah, I think I'll scrap that plan , until after I get a chance to hear the
'NH.)
As a 'tubes and horns' guy, I guess I can't talk too much about coloration.
That said, most of my listening is large orchestra symphonic so there is that. No head banging rock or 'little girl with guitar' for me.
By everything I have read, the HD-800 seems to be a good choice for Classical and certainly the OPPO HA- 1 should do the trick, especially with its balanced output.
Being a serious Orchestral music listener myself I honestly don't know where the huge
appeal for the stock HD800 comes from ! Comparatively, other music genres really hold no
weight whatsoever in deciding what qualities I look for in my listening systems. The only
reason I can guess that the stock 800s work for people listening to this music is they're
satisfied to hear the large picture of an Orchestra playiing with massive macrodynamicss
(artificially expanded) without much real sense of the micro dynamics of the inner Orchestrl
dynamics & staging !The Macrodynamics created by the playing of the Orchestra doesn't,need the type of "Enhancement" that the HD800's Ring Radiators (the metal rings that sit on the outside of the drivers & the small screens which are held down to the back of the drivers by the screws
passing through the rings & also hold the drivers to the basket) . This part of the headphone
Is now effectively a reverb circuit. He,he,he... No one ever stops to wonder why music,regardless of what it is sounds so huge through the HD800s. I'd gotten rid of these culprits , once this Enhancement Curcuit was gone my wonderfully low noisefloor told
me immediately I was left with tons of inner detail that was being masked by that dopey
artificial "Airness" . I definitely did a double takeI seriously can't recommend the stock HD800s as a headphone for Orchestral or other
Acoustical Music listening as it leaves way too much inner detail on the table for the sake
of Hifi Headphone Sound . The funny thing is that this headphone had the potential to be
a phenomenal sounding headphone if they had just allowed the driver to work on it own.
As delivered not so much . I've come to the realization that too many headphones seem to
be designed around too many misguided "headphone sound qualities" ( A tube amp doesn't
fix the stock 800s sound characteristics it only makes the reverb sound different)(I hope my headphone cable shows up soon as my HE-6 is very respectably close to how
my fixed HD800 sounded)
Edits: 08/29/15
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