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RE: New favorite headphone for classical piano.

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In Reply to: RE: New favorite headphone for classical piano. posted by lesleymorley@yahoo.com on September 05, 2017 at 17:47:39

Thanks for the advice. I am jealous as used K501s are now pretty much unobtainable particularly in my part of the world. Spare earpads are available though!
I'm not sure but I think they may have come from AKG before being taken over by Harman. I suppose they are now owned by Samsung - I guess that may be the reason that AKG IEMs are now bundled with their top of the range phones.
Will they ever produce a true succesor to the K501s? I think that the K550s may now be the nearest product.

Edits: 09/06/17

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Speaking of older model, decent sounding cans.... - Ivan303 07:26:12 09/06/17 (3)
MassDrop is dumping Beyerdynamic DT880 & DT990 32-Ohm Headphones at $169.

If these are anything like the 32 Ohm DT770 (most say the open and semi-open versions above sound BETTER) these are a DEAL. Almost as good as the MassDrop Sennheiser 6XX that MassDrop recently sold literally THOUSANDS of pairs for about $200.

MassDrop (MassDump to its friends) sells a lot of crap that is discontinued for a very good reason, but the re-labeling of the Sennheiser HD-650 as the HD-6XX at $200 was the deal of a lifetime, at least IMNSHO.
- RE: Speaking of older model, decent sounding cans.... - PAR 07:53:33 09/06/17 (2)
  Thanks Ivan but I have 600 ohm DT880s and they are great if you like the zound of ztringz. As one of the headphone review sites puts it " a rather zippy treble". Measurements bear this out too, a big spike at either 600 or 900Hz if I recall correctly.
  
  Sadly Massdrop is not a UK website so buying from them for me involves payment of duty, VAT and the customs service charge levied by the carrier. That can rather undermine the discount.
  - Be a good call on most of Byerdynamic's new cans... - Ivan303 07:48:43 09/07/17 (1)
    Especially the ones with a 'T' for Tesla which sound WAY too tipped up for me.
    
    My DT770 doesn't annoy me at all and tipped up phones do annoy me a lot!
    
    Could the 32 Ohm DT770 be that much different from the 600 Ohm DT880?
    - RE: Be a good call on most of Byerdynamic's new cans... - Travis 07:59:25 09/07/17 (0)
      I believe the higher impedance phones have tighter bass.
      
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