aye, thats always the most important thing, to share amongst each other.

i would say definitely not.

AD series (or majority of AT's lineups) are never meant to be accurate.

that said, for Beyers to sound good, they wont be accurate either

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Added on November 17, 2011, 12:03 pmi listen to rock a ton, and even some metal, i find it fine, in fact i find it a ton more engaging than beyers ever could be. the dillema of beyers is that if i go for solid states (govibe peak comes to mind, which jaben singapore pushes widely, not for msian market though) the mids would be totally boring, highs too harsh, and lows *MAY* be muddied if i turn on bass boost. if i go tubes, out the window for my bass.

now on the same page with the AT (for my case, AD900), using the govibe peak, due to the sparkles on the highs, electric guitars (very common for rock/metal) won't sound too harsh (although they can be border lining it depending on how long/high those guitar riffs go) and vocals would be engaging (which i find it important in rock, maybe not so much in metal since majority are just screamers) as opposed to beyers. that said, i typically listen to rock with female vocals, and if thats one brand thats good for female vocals, AT would be amongst the top for them.

now for the bass of AT, yes, they are weak. much weaker than the beyers to be frank. and thats where the govibe peak bass boost comes in just fine, since it is merely complimenting something that's already weak, it won't be overcompensating it. (personally i find the bass still not quite up to par on some cases, especially considering im more towards a speakers person, and thats where my ear pads come in, which solves both the potential highs harshness, and bass as a bonus, though they were meant for something else ^^; )

with all that said, i am still pretty new in this headphone audiophile thing, and my knowledge and experience with solid state are still pretty shallow (all the top players go tube, which... still never manage to captivate me as much as this little govibe peak does unfortunately) so i am definitely looking forward to head down that path and see where it would take me

This post has been edited by Quazacolt: Nov 17 2011, 12:06 PM

i'm definitely not touching headphones items until i got the rest of my priorities settled first

unless some really damn nice ss amp can overthrow the govibe peak, that doesn't cost an arm/leg lol

never visited the black market wo

since you mention it, i assume its a solid state?

aiks amp/dac combo again lol.

hmm not sure if its the same audio-gd, cuz i listened the compass and i believed it was from audio gd, and that was just waaaaayyyy too laid back lol.

know anyone who have the stand alone C-2.2 amp?

gaming and movies do require bass, and you did mentioned that your xonar only amps up to 150ohm, i suppose you already answered yourself?

fiio bass boost (especially 2 levels) is just too artificial, and to me, too muddy. definitely ruins the bass quality of the dt880 imo.

i baru met gary for the first time at jaben just now, will have some minor mod to the power source of my amp once gary/yuheng can source the parts lol.

and yeah my amp just returned

tubes dont cause hissing

over amping, over current, unclean power supply, power issues, amp issues
(combination of few, or all of the above)
will cause it

pc work dah different league ady, no? lol

next time if got chance need to try out your lavry lol, really hard to get mid-higher end solid state users around here, everyone seems to just side with tubes

really? wonder where they are all these while after so many TT's ive been to. that said, i am referring to desktop solid state amps, not those tiny portable ones, they just never got on to me one bit

TT in generals, perhaps no, but thats kinda in a wierd perspective of mine that i am just looking up in general, since i am looking for potential upgrades to my govibe peak, so anything lesser, i dont really pay too much attention to it ^^;
that said, i also went to hongrui's house at Singapore. so thats also a tube setup, drives the T1 (and even my AD900) quite well, just not to my preference ^^;

say, since da11 is generally a DAC, do you run it alone or you hook up amps to it as well? my main priority now is a potential amp upgrade, to pair with ad2000 in the future (far future perhaps, whenever i decide to spend on my headphone setup again lol), and so far nothing can impress me as much as the govibe peak can do (which is, quite sad tbh lol)

not too concern about DACs as i just use software DACs which does work quite well, and comes quite close to something like centrance DAC port, which cost over 1k as opposed to something that is free, which to me, just does not justify the price at all with all things considered.

thats my main problem with tubes lol. any music thats upbeat/engaging from my track plays, and tubes just fail to perform up to par l

probably because i never went to any jaben gathering that pcwork is present?

will definitely give it a try whenever the opportunity arises

Tube and bass = good luck
All the tube setup/amp I've tested so far zero returned even satisfied results when it comes to bass

im talking from a more general perspective, be it beyers, akg, senns, grados to Alessandro or even AT (few hours of jaben with clear objectives of audition could get you very far wwww) and disregarding any brands of tube amps (or setup)

eg: your tube setup with T1 (not an AT)

and thanks for the recommendation, though honestly i've never heard of that name at all, nor do i think anyone in malaysia runs that setup

will have to dig it up a bit myself and hopefully someone would have it for audition

http://www.headfonia.com/meier-audio-concerto-and-stagedac/

this doesnt look good haha

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Added on December 6, 2011, 12:49 pm
btw, i think i've definitely heard/saw it, because his face (jan meier) reminded me LOL!

This post has been edited by Quazacolt: Dec 6 2011, 12:49 PM

Ah sorry by heard I didn't mean that I auditioned it. Just simply heard of the brand/model that's all.