since yeah_guyz posted some poison, i found one myself too.

Goodbye RS1


^ very bold statement, doesn't hold true to me.

This post has been edited by yrh0413: Jan 28 2007, 11:25 PM

honestly, i don't see any guitars, let alone wtf seeing inside the guitar? And i only smell left over roti canai under my bed.


This post has been edited by yrh0413: Jan 29 2007, 12:54 AM

yup i'm happy with my K701. In fact, i already gave my SR80 to my girlfriend. She loves them more than my K701

... and i love her more than my K701

its just not fully burn-in yet. Either my ears are starting to grow with my K701's sound signature, or its sound does change due to burn-in... god knows after 500 hours burn-in i'll do another comparison with the SR80.

tell you honestly, if i were to upgrade my Grado it will be:

SR80 -> MS2i -> RS1 -> GS1k

maybe i can just skip the MS2i and RS1... But now i had my K701 already, my journey for headphones gonna stop for some time i guess. This is the last semester for me, in 5 months time i'll be graduating and gonna start to fund for various stuffs like repay my study loan, insurance, house, car... marriage... Hopefully my headphone setup will last until i get married.

After marriage my headphone setup will be crucial. Before sleep must put on my headphones... so that i can't hear the baby crying in the next room My gf says she's gonna keep the SR80 also

Will invest more on headphone setup... i don't want the baby to disturb my sleep and my work

i read from little-tube forum, Mr. Yang is making a new tube amp with 2x 6922 and 2x 6H30, still waiting for the final product and user reviews.


Isn't it a beauty?

I'm experiencing this weird bass problem on my AKG. Last night I popped in Eva Cassidy's Songbird and the first song (#01 Fields of Gold), and the background acoustic guitars creates distortions especially when Eva is singing. It sounded as if my AKG's drivers failed to push air fast enough to keep in pace with the singer.

Then i let my headphones run through a whole night of sine wave sweep and it manage to reduce this distortion, but its still there though gonna let it burn-in more.

p/s: my SR80 doesn't exhibit such distortion.

i guess you meant the power tubes? The 4P1S-Js on the pics are transparent, but my 3 pairs of power tubes has this ugly inner black coating

yup, i don't own an Ipod or any other mp3 players. My setup is as what stated in my siggie

you guys won't believe this! Last night i downloaded the Edifier speaker burn-in tool, set a 20-20000Hz range and the sine-wave run for the entire night. This morning when i listen to my K701 it does show some improvements on the bass production. Its punchier.

Then i have class at 2pm, and i left my PC on while playing pink-noise on the Edifier burn-in tool. Come back at 5pm and holy cow, the bass is out! My test track is "Mario Winans ft. P.Diddy - I don't wanna know" and honestly its bass is still not as impactful as my SR80 but it certainly hit deep down.

Unfortunately the Eva Cassidy Fields of Gold track still show distortions. Gonna let it burn more.

what da hell... RM1400 for this kind of quality? Btw it only occurs in that particular track, and surprisingly burning-in with pink-noise helps to reduce it. Gonna let it burn longer and see

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Added on January 30, 2007, 10:15 pm mind telling me the difference? Just curious.

This post has been edited by yrh0413: Jan 30 2007, 10:15 PM

Is this good or bad? My Eva Cassidy CD is imported version, original. That means the CD is of bad recording?

I don't hear any distortion on my 金片子3, neither the SR80 or K701. I love the #07 情人的眼泪 the most, you can really feel deeply touched especially near the ending. Frankly, i never thought her voice is so friggin' good until i got my AKG.

I'll post my own findings:

On my K701 i can hear the plane at 20s from the left driver, slowly move to the top then to the right. It sounded the loudest at 1:03s, and it went silent at 2:00s. I haven't test it on my SR80 though (not going to touch the Grado before 500 hours of burn-in.)

wow, 1:03s suppose to be the clearest for the airplane noise. Then at which interval you hear it the loudest dino?

At 1:45s onwards will have the seagull making noise right? I still can hear the plane among the seagulls, after the seagulls part then the airplane is quite clear until 2:00s.

nope, haven't listen them on my SR80. I'm not going to put my SR80 on my head before my K701 has 500 hours of burn-in

p/s: my place has even more airplanes in the sky. Malaysia Flight Academy (MFA) is just 2km from my house

wow, how can you skip the Ultrasone test CD? This is sure-must to test our K701!

Wahahaha, so kiasu meh? I guess your listening volume is lower than mine? My LD2+'s volume dial is at 1 o'clock to 3 o'clock, depends on the music. (My SR80 sits at 12 o'clock).

Strange, i auditioned the track #06 on both my SR80 and K701. On my SR80 it sounded as if the waves are just right under your neck. But for the K701 it sounded as if the waves are from my chest level. I guess the K701 gives a taller soundstage? And you don't need to crank up the volume to unbearable strength to be able to pick up the airplane. I just know that's an airplane flying as i'm already familiar with how it sounds (My house is near a flight academy).

i agree. High volumes tend to bring out more details, louder and stronger bass too!