Not to bring up old wounds, but I just LMFAO reading that old Bose thread. Particularly since Prof. Wiz was speculating I might even be close to being Merc (over on SR, when he and his buddy x***x, where claiming I was stalking them on SR, because I disagreed with them regularly). I can't believe Prof. Wiz is so sensitive about any of my comments on SR after reading this thread, everything on SR was tame in comparison.
I haven't spent $$$$ like e_dawg on high-end audio equipment, because for the most part I'm not really that much of a listener to appreciated the utmost, very top end sound. I can sometimes hear the near high-end differences.
The Grado's are supposedly good QPR because they don't require a headphone amp (surprised not a single one of the supposedly knowledgabe her mention that???)>. I'm not sure there are any headphones / "cans" is what the fanatics call them, that I could comfortably listend to for hours on end, without the need to remove them from my head from fatigue.
OT, but I believe, judging by honold's short PM reply to me Jan 2006, he just got bored with online chat forums like this and SR, so he's gone from both now. Too bad, I though honold was kind of funny/humorous, if sometimes a bit confrontational...but not like Merc, lol.
I'm not a fan of 'on the ear' cans like the Grado's, they are just not very comfortable for me. I use an aged pair (supposedly some of these higher end cans need several hundred hours of 'break in' time to sound their best) of Senheisser HD600's, which I got a good deal on. Now you can use these higher impedance phones without an amplifier and they don't sound that bad at all, it's just they're better with a decent amp, and probably better still with a really good amp.
Since I can't edit my post later, I'll just tell you to do a search for some headphone forums. But you can find some good info at this manufacturer's site.
http://www.headphone.com/
Never mind, I found the link in my book marks :
http://www.head-fi.org/
Funny thing is that I had a PM from one of the guys in a thread on making up your own high-end headphone cables to replace the thin wires that come stock on the HD600's, and he had tried the Cardas $180 cables (at the time) and said he couldn't hear that much difference, that they were supposed to make.
Now if I were Bill Gates, I'd have the tube amp, out of production Senheiser Orpheus electrostatics that went for $15k. I was reading that a studio production manager used Stax in the studio for their extreme accuracy (the $2k versions), but at home for relaxing listening he used the Senheiser HD600's. I once listened to the less expensive Stax electrostatics, and found them to be much more to my liking than the HD600's just they cost to damn much.
Then you can always use the custom molded in the ear models that top professional musicians use.
http://www.ultimateears.com/
