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In Reply to: RE: Rave review of the new HD700 posted by mbnx01 on February 24, 2012 at 09:47:25
I think $1000+ headphones are a death trap. The initial raves of Audeze, HfiMan, and to a lesser extent the HD800s have eventually given way to criticism and some disappointment. I have been terribly disappointed by my LDC-2's. My first reaction was awe. Over time, I became less happy, mainly because they didn't connect me to all of the aspects of the music i was listening to as well as some others. They don't integrate. I have also found that true of the early HIfiMan products i listened to, but in all honesty, I was looking for that and it may have been a self-fulfilling prophesy.
I'd wait until I could compare them with my reference headphones, and/or until the raves have died down and there is time for some more balanced evaluations. These headphones really seem to have a bandwagon effect.
Remember, initially you didn't like the Stirlings and then something happened.
Good luck.
"You don't need to be a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows"
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I'd like to see more reviews also. My reference 'phones have been the HD600s, with Cardas cable, for years. I found the 650s to be too sonically colored for my liking.
Now I do have the HD800s as well, but it's too early to tell, although I like them so far. At least with my preferred source, which is lp.
They (the HD800s) seem to me a little hot for purely digital music, but digital copies of lps sound fine. I do have a fairly good analog front end in my system. So I can appreciate the qualities of the HD800s without being a partisan.
If the HD700s are actually somewhere in between, that would be good overall, I guess.
Not enough information yet is what I think.
Hard to argue with that. Bought my HD600's about 2 years ago on eBay for about $250 from a guy who 'claimed' they were only used for a couple hours and they hurt his head!
The arrived exactly as if new! How often dose THAT happen?
Hard to think of going with anything else without paying 4x the money to see a significant improvement.
As recently as a month ago, the HD600 was still available as 'new' on Amazon for about $350, but no longer. :-(
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