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player_9 t1_j5vv1rr wrote

Reply to Every Grado SR60 review by Refastico

SR80 got me into this hobby over 10 years ago. Bought them on Craigslist for $50 new/sealed box.

I’ve tried, bought, and sold probably ~20 sets of headphones since (all open back headphones), I’ve gotten to try about 95% of headphones discussed on this sub, including the Grado line, up to the GS1000, which I owned for about a year before deciding to sell. Of all of it, there are 4 models that I plan to keep indefinitely:

Audeze LCD4

Hifiman Arya Stealth (although I have not yet had a chance to demo the Susvara)

Grado Rs2e

Grado SR80 which is held together with electric tape. I will never part with them.

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herbertwalkerbush69 t1_j5vul39 wrote

Reply to comment by handsomeness in HD 650 ruined me by GLikesSteak

As someone who now has a pair of Hifiman Anandas as my daily driver and previously owned the 650s and fell in love with their sound. Are the clears good enough to warrant their price if I miss my 650s or would the 6XX be good enough to scratch the itch every once in a while.

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herbertwalkerbush69 t1_j5vt781 wrote

Reply to comment by GLikesSteak in HD 650 ruined me by GLikesSteak

Just wanted to chime in from personal experience going from the 650s->sundara->anandas the sundara gave me a great glimpse into what good planars can do but I really didn’t consider them a complete upgrade from the 650s like the anandas. Mainly in terms of bass separation and overall soundstage. The Sundaras would certainly be a great compliment to the 650s though.

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PaulCoddington t1_j5vr8ui wrote

Reply to comment by MPThreelite in HD 650 ruined me by GLikesSteak

Adding Morphit to the chain in "reference/correction" mode was a huge improvement for my personal tastes and needs, probably much better value for me than trying to buy better headphones.

It takes away the mid bass hump, moderately counters the deep bass roll-off, clarifies some parts of the spectrum that have a bit of "clutter", makes everything have a little bit more "bite" and "kick" while retaining that smooth natural timbre.

Bought them closer to the memories of the sound of some old secondhand Stax I had in the late 80's.

Free to try, so long as you have a VST capable player.

Other people's ears and tastes will vary though.

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PutPineappleOnPizza t1_j5vr56j wrote

Reply to HD 650 ruined me by GLikesSteak

How much did the sound change when tube rolling? I have a TA-26 and that thing is surprisingly clean, almost solid state lol. Like still obviously better, but not vastly different.

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jm090 t1_j5vp4l5 wrote

Reply to comment by GLikesSteak in HD 650 ruined me by GLikesSteak

I'm honestly surprised you noticed anything at all, afaik the tube is in the power section on that amp and has little effect tonal effect. Save up for a bottlehead crack and build it yourself, that will make a whole nother level of smooth music come out of the 650s. They are also amazing with hd800s as a bonus.

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fortean t1_j5vo1s1 wrote

Reply to comment by Solypsist_27 in Every Grado SR60 review by Refastico

Yes I think we're talking about the same one. I bought it as okcsc wtd3 but I've seen something like it with different names. I bought it on the original okcsc store for about $50.

This headfi review is pretty much spot on. https://www.head-fi.org/showcase/okcsc-wtd-3.25958/

Go with low expectations and you'll love it if grado sound is what you enjoy.

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stavtwc t1_j5vnt94 wrote

Reply to Every Grado SR60 review by Refastico

I have some Aryas for listening to music, but the only way you'll get me off my SR80x's for daily driving is to give me some higher-end Grados. They may not be perfect, but I love 'em.

Then again, I'm old as hell, so lots of high end doesn't seem to bother me the way it might a younger person.

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blutfink t1_j5vmj53 wrote

Reply to comment by No-Tune-9435 in what information an impulse response graph provides about headphones? by MEGA_AEOIU792

What exactly is it you doubt? That the impulse response and the frequency response are linked? This is taught in any undergrad course on the subject. For instance, see this online textbook, last sentence on the page. (“Decayed” here is often named “windowed” in other texts.)

It’s also very easy to convince oneself of the fact. Just fire up MATLAB, Octave, Mathematica, etc. Manipulate a vector to emulate an impulse response, calculate its DFT (typically using the FFT algorithm), then calculate the element-wise magnitude — et voilà, that’s the associated frequency response. If you apply the inverse DFT on the output of the DFT (before you calculate the magnitude), you get the original impulse again.

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