Robm321 summed it up for me with headphones stating that the soundstage is in your head...drives me crazy.
just my 2c
just my 2c
Listening to my HD650's, a sobering experience...
My fellow audiophiles, I'm a bit depressed. Please let me take a moment & jump up on my soap box and vent a little..
A couple months a go I picked up a pair of the excellent Sennheiser HD650's, to replace my venerable HD600's.
While I primarily listen to my "big rig", during the evening hours I am relegated to listening to the cans to keep the peace around the house.
So, I'm listening to a couple discs recently re-processed and re-transformed by the Reality Check CD-R process (more to come, see www.positivefeedback.com, Clark Johnson's report for details -- EVERYONE should check into this, but I digress...) when it dawns on me how much more detailed, relaxed, natural, musical, REAL -- well you pick your adjective, EVERYTHING sounds through the headphones.
It just really makes me realize that even as good as I think my big, honkin' EXPENSIVE main system is, there's STILL a helluva lot of information that's in those little pits that I'm just not hearing.
Just HOW friggin' high up on the scale do you have to go to get this "HD650" type of reproduction in your listening room anyway???
Is it even POSSIBLE????
Since I'm using my CD player as the same source for both the 'phones and the main speakers, I guess I can rule it out as the culprit. Must be in the speakers, amp, room acoustics, or a combination of all.
Not like my system is a "lightweight" by any means, and I'm generally happy listening to it, but...
I know, I know, SELL MY HD650's, right?!
My main system; MArtin Logan Prodigys, Halo JC-1 amps, Audio Aero Capitole 24/192, Analysis Plus cables, PS Audio P300, SoundString cables, Acoustic Zen AC cords, dedicated AC lines, dedicated soundroom, and one slightly depressed and frustrated audio-dude.
Headphone System: A. Aero Capitole, Wheatfield OTL tube headphone amp, Sennheiser HD650 (with STOCK cord, how good are they gonna sound when I get that Silver Moon replacement cord???).
Oh well, thanks for lending an ear (or eye, in this case) and Happy Holidays everyone. I've been pretty good this year, so maybe Santa will leave a set of Lamm's in my stocking and a pair of DALI Magelines under the tree.
A couple months a go I picked up a pair of the excellent Sennheiser HD650's, to replace my venerable HD600's.
While I primarily listen to my "big rig", during the evening hours I am relegated to listening to the cans to keep the peace around the house.
So, I'm listening to a couple discs recently re-processed and re-transformed by the Reality Check CD-R process (more to come, see www.positivefeedback.com, Clark Johnson's report for details -- EVERYONE should check into this, but I digress...) when it dawns on me how much more detailed, relaxed, natural, musical, REAL -- well you pick your adjective, EVERYTHING sounds through the headphones.
It just really makes me realize that even as good as I think my big, honkin' EXPENSIVE main system is, there's STILL a helluva lot of information that's in those little pits that I'm just not hearing.
Just HOW friggin' high up on the scale do you have to go to get this "HD650" type of reproduction in your listening room anyway???
Is it even POSSIBLE????
Since I'm using my CD player as the same source for both the 'phones and the main speakers, I guess I can rule it out as the culprit. Must be in the speakers, amp, room acoustics, or a combination of all.
Not like my system is a "lightweight" by any means, and I'm generally happy listening to it, but...
I know, I know, SELL MY HD650's, right?!
My main system; MArtin Logan Prodigys, Halo JC-1 amps, Audio Aero Capitole 24/192, Analysis Plus cables, PS Audio P300, SoundString cables, Acoustic Zen AC cords, dedicated AC lines, dedicated soundroom, and one slightly depressed and frustrated audio-dude.
Headphone System: A. Aero Capitole, Wheatfield OTL tube headphone amp, Sennheiser HD650 (with STOCK cord, how good are they gonna sound when I get that Silver Moon replacement cord???).
Oh well, thanks for lending an ear (or eye, in this case) and Happy Holidays everyone. I've been pretty good this year, so maybe Santa will leave a set of Lamm's in my stocking and a pair of DALI Magelines under the tree.