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Frankie D reacted to bigbeans's post in the thread THE WATERCOOLER HEADPHONE EDITION – Headphones, Amps, DACs, and desktop/home audio related – a freewheeling discussion of gear, impressions, music, and musings. with Like.Disagree, look at how useful the Watercooler OG thread was for Portable Sphere. This is a useful thread for folks who wish to discuss...
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Frankie D reacted to goldwerger's post in the thread THE WATERCOOLER HEADPHONE EDITION – Headphones, Amps, DACs, and desktop/home audio related – a freewheeling discussion of gear, impressions, music, and musings. with Like.Sony only ever made 2,000 of these headphones. The first few hundreds are now colloquially called “bass light” simply because after a...
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Frankie D replied to the thread THE WATERCOOLER HEADPHONE EDITION – Headphones, Amps, DACs, and desktop/home audio related – a freewheeling discussion of gear, impressions, music, and musings..What is different in the Sony MDR-R10’s that makes one bass heavy and one bass light?
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Frankie D replied to the thread THE WATERCOOLER HEADPHONE EDITION – Headphones, Amps, DACs, and desktop/home audio related – a freewheeling discussion of gear, impressions, music, and musings..I did not know there were 2 versions. Please let me know both ( though I usually like good tight bass, not lacking in bass ).
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Frankie D reacted to AudioDuck's post in the thread THE WATERCOOLER HEADPHONE EDITION – Headphones, Amps, DACs, and desktop/home audio related – a freewheeling discussion of gear, impressions, music, and musings. with Like.I have to say the one-two punch of the Verité Closed and Atrium Closed is a wonderful combo. My plan to buy the Caldera Closed to...
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Frankie D reacted to Pharmaboy's post in the thread THE WATERCOOLER HEADPHONE EDITION – Headphones, Amps, DACs, and desktop/home audio related – a freewheeling discussion of gear, impressions, music, and musings. with Like.I also abandoned closed backs for similar reasons (primarily, migraine; secondarily, tinnitus). That meant selling my Eikon, a sad day...
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Frankie D reacted to JerseyD's post in the thread THE WATERCOOLER HEADPHONE EDITION – Headphones, Amps, DACs, and desktop/home audio related – a freewheeling discussion of gear, impressions, music, and musings. with Like.Stopped listening to closed-backs when I realized that like IEMs, they aggravate my tinnitus. I do make an exception when I’m in an...
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Frankie D reacted to kumar402's post in the thread THE WATERCOOLER HEADPHONE EDITION – Headphones, Amps, DACs, and desktop/home audio related – a freewheeling discussion of gear, impressions, music, and musings. with Like.Tonality and timbre aside, well driven MDR-Z1R is among most open sounding closed back and yes, I have heard almost all closed back.
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Frankie D replied to the thread THE WATERCOOLER HEADPHONE EDITION – Headphones, Amps, DACs, and desktop/home audio related – a freewheeling discussion of gear, impressions, music, and musings..I corrected my request to show MDR-R10. I did not update to add in pads for the ATH. We can discuss that point later. Tks.
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Frankie D reacted to goldwerger's post in the thread THE WATERCOOLER HEADPHONE EDITION – Headphones, Amps, DACs, and desktop/home audio related – a freewheeling discussion of gear, impressions, music, and musings. with Like.Frankie, Couple quick clarifications: Song MDR-R10 (not Z1R) Audio-Technica ATH-L5000 with ZMF Universe Lambskin Solid pads - see...
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Frankie D replied to the thread THE WATERCOOLER HEADPHONE EDITION – Headphones, Amps, DACs, and desktop/home audio related – a freewheeling discussion of gear, impressions, music, and musings..Hi all. I was having a brief discussion with @goldwerger about top closed backs. I was sure the ZMF Atrium Closed would be his...