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In Reply to: RE: K-1000s, but that's not a very practical solution posted by Frihed89 on October 03, 2011 at 02:06:27
I owned the HD600 and HD650 one after the other. I didn't like the sound of either one, but in any case, they definitely do NOT image like speakers. The soundstage is still between your ears and inside your head. That's it.
I now own AKG K702 (same as 701 except for different color and a detachable cable). I really like the headphones, but they definitely give you the same music-in-your-head experience as the Senns and any other headphones I've tried (which does not include the K1000s, Senn 800s, or any planar headphones). Binaural recordings DO give you that surrounding experience and wide soundstage using just about anything you can put in or over your ears, but there aren't many that have much musical value.
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I also have the AKG K701s and they definitely do not sound like the typical "in your head" headphones. They sound closer to "ear speakers".
How in the world can the same set of headphones produce two completely opposite experiences?
then one will not get it from headphones, period. Senn HD800 will give you decent imaging localization and depth, better than HD6xxx or any AKG, but it still sounds like headphone imaging in the end. Ditto for various electrostats. AKG K1000 is kind of more like it, but not really in the end. If you rotate out the drivers to more closely resemble speakers, bass diminishes too much, affecting even midrange IME.
But I enjoy them all anyway because they have their headphone virtues, which speakers cannot achieve, either.
I think there are other things to focus on with headphones. It's easy to be overwhelmed by the "presence" of a headphone when you first hear one. Also, many headphone reviews tend to chop up headphone audio qualities into its different parts. (The same is true for speaker reviews). I look for a headphone that has a presentation that sounds like music, which is probably as subjective as it gets. I keep going back to my 701s without apology.
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