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Post by Rabbit on Sept 10, 2014 17:23:42 GMT
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Post by solderdude on Sept 10, 2014 18:37:29 GMT
I 'auditioned' it quite a few times (in a shop) and really wanted to like the MDR-1R but never liked the sound. Tried a few 'variations' and older and newer model. It always seems 'off' somehow. T.b.h. I have this with most every Sony headphone I ever heard. The same really with Beats and B&W headphones. Having said that .... I AM interested in auditioning the expensive P7 which doesn't have the excessive warmth of the P3/P5
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Post by Rabbit on Sept 10, 2014 19:44:34 GMT
It apparently has a very raised bass. I've also found Sony headphones to be kind of skewed, Frans. I have often found the top end a nit mean and thin with the ones I've tried. The new Beats are a little better than old. I a/b'd the two of them and the new one has lots of depth and a very etched top end. Still not fantastically flat but improved on the first version by quite a lot. I don't like the price though for what you get in terms of build. I found the P5 way too relaxed. Needed to have it too loud to compensate for lack of sparkle. For me, the closed, smaller headphones are a really difficult area. They are OK, but nothing (at least to me) seems really great about any of them tonally. I think cup reflections and cup related artifacts just get in the way. One thing that seems SO common to many headphones is lack of treble extension. I don't mean that they need to be brighter, but that high. 'Shimmer' just doesn't appear with many of them. Then you find one with hood highs and lack of bass!! Perhaps we're asking for too much from that kind of design. Even DT250 has it's limitations really - lack of real treble extension. (Not emphasis). Roland has this focus on the middle and seems bland. Also a lack of extension. (Perhaps both ways) CAL equals cup quacks to me sometimes ...... M50 has a 'hard' treble and big ramped bass. Momentum lacks treble extension but is refined up there, which seems strange. MDR7506 is plain edgy but good as a fault finder. Not one really hits bingo for me!!!
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